Something awful happened a couple weeks ago. Due to some overheating issues, I damaged my hard drive disk and lost all of my music in the transfer to a new hard drive. All of my hard work over the years, all of my discoveries, each album prized from the void like a miner’s gem, gone. It’s not an uncommon tragedy for music lovers, but nonetheless the blow was dealt, and it took me a week to recover from my grief. I had to rebuild what I had lost. And so I set out with a brand new 400 GB external to harvest and cultivate a new library of music, bigger and better than before.
I will no doubt look for much of my old music, classics, but in my search I will add new underground, overlooked B-sides from my favorite bands, and explore new genres altogether. Since this blog is heavily about music and culture, I will post the best of my discoveries to share.
Today I’m bumpin’ some of Del the Funkee Homosapien. If the name doesn’t tell you, he’s an alternative hip-hop artist with a flair for unorthodox beats and topics, but its all good hip-hop. He’s the rapper from the Gorillaz record, “Clint Eastwood” if that helps you to remember (try to act like you didn’t have that rap memorized.) I’ve been listening to some of his older stuff from when he was on Elektra records, but these days, with his last release “Eleventh Hour” to be specific, he’s working with Definitive Jux records, and so gets my vote of confidence: those gentlemen know hip-hop.
Check out Del’s MySpace to listen to some good music.
Keep it real, yo.
–Frosty Fresh
