thelaststarfighter

+rep for jaco pastorius.

most Police tracks....

damn why'd scott heron suck?

platinum pied pipers is Waajeed & Saadiq.

Waajeed is from Detroit, and a long time affiliate of Jay Dee.

One of the founding members of Slum Village.

Produced a few joints on Dirty District, did La La & Star on Trinity, and co-produced several joints on the Dilla's classic Welcome To Detroit.

Siddiq is his long time instrumental collaborator.

I would recommend annnnyone who likes soul, hip hop, rnb, or anything really, to get this on the double. It's incredible front to back.

lucy pearl

obvious choice....

van hunt

both albums are fucking great... the first is more neo soul, the second has a more psychedelic/hendrix vibe...

martin luther's rebel soul music

steve spacek album's.

i wasn't really impressed with his new one, but the older albums are good. the dilla collab was the best track... 'dolla'

platinum pied pipers - ppp

album is amazing. easily the best neo-soul album in the past few years... say five even. it skirts the line between detroit neo soul & straight up hip hop. the sa-ra feature is gold....

while on the ppp subject, i'd suggest also, if you can find it-

waajeed vs. the jazz cats - marvin gaye vs. wjd

Waajeed and fam take stabs at a few marvin gaye tracks... the result is space funk broken beat neck snap mastery... vinyl promo release only.

(and when his new album War drops, get that)

yesterday's new quintet

so much to choose from... any of Madlib's alter ego's really.

you'd be hard pressed to define this in any genre, let alone neo-soul, but he's got elements of it all in here...

I'd recommend you start at the first album, Angles without Edges, then move onto the tribute albums (Stevie, et al.) and then into his more off the wall shit, Sound Directions, etc....

just off the top of the head.... if i remember some more shit i'll come back through with an edit... enjoy.

pm'ed about new standards

dibbs!

i'll cop these right now w/ a less blurry pic of the crotch repair and full measurements.

edit - just emailed you

pm me.

heh.... honest is subjective.

REALLY? PROVE IT.

lol... I'm really trying to find a digi cam. per sl*t's pic's i'm thinking of grabbing some lumix jumpoff...

sl*t, what model lumix is that old secondhand?

if i could take pics, i'd show you my turned-to-shreds hands after my learning experience with butchering three live lobsters.. hahah

anyone going to the Pitchfork festival in chicago next weekend?

I was thinking of going saturday if not just for Battles...

figured I'd contribute to this thread...

been in the restuarant industry since I was old enough to work...

let's see...

just bought the french laundry cookbook so i had to try some stuff out...

last night was a modern take on seafood macaroni and cheese:

fresh butter-poached lobster, creamy lobster broth with marscapone-enriched orzo

then w/ a left over tail this morning i made a lobster omelette with...

marscapone, cream, taragon and fresh chives, sauteed red onion and braised the lobster in olive oil... shit was light, airy... perfumed w/ the herbs. on point.

I know this is still outta your price range, but I figured there might be someone interested.

hypebeast-haven Digital Gravel has posted a series of sheOne one-off canvas pieces. The prices are high ($2,500 for most, one thirty foot long canvas for $12k).

But some of these are really fresh...

i'm hoping it will be the police. as dumb as it sounds, i've been waiting all my life for this.

ditto on the police! i'm seeing them next week... getting to see stu play is gonna make my year.

no order...random favs

the who/robert plant @ van andel

atmosphere/brother ali/blueprint/illogic @ metro

...trail of dead @ lollapalooza '05

digable planets @ lollapalooza '05

snowden/malajube @ beat kitchen

clipse @ metro

heres to adding Daft @ lolla 07 to that list...

i hope this is good, i'm goin to see them later this month.

no doubt... just let me know.

it's a short drive to local cigar emporium.

i can get the torano reserva selecta's for 7.50 / 8.00 a piece... the list goes on.

well, if the price gap is that large, we can setup a pick-up if you want.

i was just at a store today w/ 15,000 cigars. picked up a few small Torano's myself.

reese forbes sb's with checkerboard lacing?

that shit is fucking atrocious.

the webstore?

how much more expensive are they?

I can get most mid-range cigars around here for about seven/ten bucks a pop.

Don't be so hard on Dominican cigars...

Just because they're subtle, doesn't mean they suck.

Carlos Torano Reserva Selecta's are excellent, one of my favourites.

I prefer the Robustos, as they're a bit shorter but pack a bit more flavour than the Torpedos. I recommend you try them out. They're def mild, but theres alot of dimensions to these that alot of in-your-face cigars lack.

In actuality, Carlos Torano was Spanish born, Cuban raised.

He was one of the largest tobacco growers in Cuba before Castro nationalized the tobacco fields. He then emigrated to the Dominican Republic to produce their cigars. After growing for a while they took their focus from the growth of tobacco to cigar production, and the tobacco is now grown in Nicagragua and Honduras

My family’s history in the cigar business dates back to 1916. In 1916 Don Santiago Toraño emigrated from Spain to Cuba. Santiago became involved in tobacco as a broker of leaf tobacco. Over the years he was blessed with having three sons, Jaime, Jose and my father Carlos. All of them became involved in the tobacco business. Over the years, the Toraño family became one of the biggest and most well known growers of Cuban tobacco leaf. By the time of the revolution in 1959, the Toraño family owned and operated approximately 17 farms throughout Cuba.

After the Cuban government nationalized the tobacco farms, my father, Carlos Toraño, took his passion for tobacco to the Dominican Republic. Still today, growers in the Dominican Republic credit my father with introducing the Cuban seed to the Dominican Republic and teaching the farmers there how to grow what is today known as Piloto Cubano. After my father’s early and untimely death, I continued the family business, but expanded it to growing in Nicaragua, Mexico and Ecuador.

um what model are the nudies

It doesn't really matter if I use Fruity Loops or not.

in the end, the hardware vs. software debate is completely subjective.

my point is that denying the fact that computers are the future is just limiting your pallete & range of tools.

if you've never used the Waves SSL plugins, then you really don't realize how close computers are getting to replicating that vintage warmth.

god knows if they're ever be able to ellicit that avalon tube quality (or whathaveyou), but they're edging in.

...omc hit it right on the head

it is always analog heads who are ragging on digital heads, whereas on our end, we recognize that both have positives and negatives, and we simply choose to work with one set of pros and cons as opposed to the other.

jeans always.

the hatebeasters will hop all over it, but the only person I've ever seen pull off shorts to a degree of me being impressed was N.E.R.D.-era Pharrell and those damn camo shorts he always wore. hmpf.