![]() ![]() I came to this album late, but after a few increasingly surprised listens, it went into regular rotation around the house it's probably the album that my girlfriend and I turned to more often than any other. There's no doubt that this is very much "beat music," but it comes across as all but beatless in its glow and drift. I think what I like the most is how he takes something so busy and makes it sound so easy and fluid. The more I stumbled across them, the more I realized that there was something really special in them, and I finally dove into the album in earnest. My first time through the promo, I had cherry-picked a few tracks to use in DJ mixes. This is another album that grew on me immensely over time-but then, I think the very best music usually takes a while to open up and reveal its essence. Full of bells, harp, flutes, strings and clicky percussion, his tracks thrum rather than thrump, with a gentle rush like a rainstick filled with feathers. Rhythmically, his beats have as much to do with dubstep as hip-hop, but it's the textures that really set him apart. Like other producers in his circle, Teebs' style is obviously hip-hop in its genetics, but it's evolved far beyond the genre's boom-bap roots. In my review for Rhapsody, I wrote: If the debut album from Los Angeles' Teebs (aka Mtendere Mandowa) reminds you of Flying Lotus, that's probably OK: After all, FlyLo released it on his Brainfeeder label. And yes, I've probably forgotten some.ĭon't miss my two best-of-2010 mixes ("House" and "Home") at Made Like a Tree, featuring many of the below tracks. Rankings are fluid within subsections, and become more so the further down the list we go. ![]()
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