So after attending the BAM "Shuffle Culture" night hosted by Questlove last night in Brooklyn, I was exposed to some new groups that I had never checked out before. Willis Earl Beal and Jeremy Ellis were the 2 standouts to me. Beal does a sort of Ben Harper delta blues sound and Ellis does a lot of chopped jazz samples with a bit of boom-bap drums.
Overall, I enjoyed the show. I was hoping for more over-lapping of sounds and more of a "mix" but to assemble 5+ musical acts on one stage and make any sense of the mini-palooza that is is, is a success in itself I guess. The end of the show was Kenny Mohammed and Rahzel battling with Questlove on beats, but that part of the show seemed "muddy" at times with 3 people vying for audio "space".
It was cool to sit in a concert hall and hear any semblance of "hip-hop" and in the end we all heard snippets of groups we may want to check out more of. Hopefully, this will serve as a regular event for lesser known groups and audio-physical mash-ups of genres that may be the future of how we ALL hear music.
Below are some clips of Jeremy Ellis and Willis Earl Beal if you are interested.
JEREMY ELLIS - DILLA CHOPS
WILLIS EARL BEAL
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