skalpel - skalpel
1960's/1970's polish jazz and hip hop beats. can only be ninja tune can't it?
anyone who got the recent ninja tune dvd will hopefully have seen the excellent video for the duo's recent single '1958'. basically, if you liked that track, and you surely did, then, you are going to love this album. smoky late night laid back jazz with horns, conga's, flutes, double bass, moody 70's soundtrack ambience, and held together with coldcut-esque found voices, making the album come over like a soundtrack to a lost episode of the Twighlight Hour. the fact that marcin and igor have unparalleled access to some wonderful scratchy samples that literally no-one else has makes this album rather unique. i very much doubt you'll be playing source the sample with this lot, and nor should you want to. the album's full of listenable grooves with a minimum of improvised solo madness. in todays world of excess the album is short and concise (40 mins), feel the quality, not the quantity. for years, the jazz element of ninjatune used to put me off as i thought it was all a little too chin stroking, but when the flow is a smooth and damn fine as these 10 tracks are then who am i to hold back the urge. kick back, turn down the lights and feel the funk.
doctors orders.