A Little Old School And A Little Soul

Leaders Of The New School.

"The Leaders of the New School were an American hip hop crew composed of Uniondale, New York natives Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Busta Rhymes and Cut Monitor Milo, Busta Rhymes' cousin. The four got their start touring with hip hop group Public Enemy, and in fact it was member Chuck D who gave Busta Rhymes and Charlie Brown their names.

The group made their first appearance on an Elektra Records compilation titled Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary, with a song called "Mt. Airy Groove". LONS soon joined up with popular hip hop collective, the Native Tongues Posse, along with the Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep.

In 1991 Busta Rhymes made a guest appearance on A Tribe Called Quest's hit single "Scenario," and LONS joined ATCQ on the Arsenio Hall Show to perform the track with them. Their debut album also came in 1991, entitled A Future Without a Past, which included the hits "Case of the P.T.A.", "Sobb Story" and "The International Zone Coaster". The group was praised for their light-hearted content, and old-school call-and-response deliveries. Their second and last album was T.I.M.E., released in 1993, which stood for "The Inner Mind's Eye". The album was less acclaimed than their debut, but spawned rap hits "What's Next" and "Classic Material"."

Library Tapes.

"Library Tapes consists of David Wenngren from Gävle, Sweden and is an experimental/ambient band. Per Jardsell was a member of Library Tapes but left after the release of the first album. Later releases saw the artist collaborate with Colleen, Erik Skodvin (Deaf Center & Svarte Greiner), Peter Broderick, Danny Norbury and Sylvain Chauveau."

I have only really given the two '08 releases healthy listens, but they hooked me and I had to grab up the rest of his stuff. From my limited listens today the earlier stuff is just as good but much more sparse without Broderick's help. Anyway, onto the albums.

Ali.

New Brother Ali, should be good.

Tillman.

Newest from J. Tillman.

Bondy.

New effort from A.A. Bondy, get it while it's hot.

Brand New.

Not a big fan upon first listen through. I really dug the progression between their first album which was typical TBS style nonsense (still listened though) to Deja Entendu which showed a lot of growth. Then out came The Devil... which furthered the nod to old school emo and was grand, now out comes this which I don't know how to feel about. Heard a solid song or two on the first listen, but wasn't too impressed. Honeymoon is over I spose.