DELA - THE ROBERT GLASPER BEAT TAPE

Dela
The Robert Glasper Beat Tape
[Bandcamp: April, 2009]

 7.8 






Tracklist
01. Kiss
02. The Thief's Theme
03. Get Busy
04. Something New
05. Dizzy
06. Can It B So Simple
07. Jay Hova / Music (Final Mix)
08. Tribute
09. Praise & Praise

Try it now

First of all, I need to introduce Dela. He is not known by many but I really love his beats. His sound is significantly influenced by old school Hip Hop artists such as A Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan, J. Dilla, Pete Rock and Large Professor. He remained underground for most of his career; releasing free for download albums on large music sharing website such as Bandcamp, Myspace and Jazzysport. One could definitely hear the progression of his music from the first album to the last album, which is this one that I am bringing for y'all. His first album, Changes of Atmosphere, has subtle Hip Hop beats and old school vibes. However, this album, The Robert Glasper Beat Tape, is significantly Jazz influenced. Its a different taste of Dela and I really enjoy this album. Here is Dela's own words on this album.

The first time I heard Robert Glasper's music was in the summer of 2007. I was hanging out with the homie phinydee in the jazz record shop he used to work at, in Paris. We were trying to finish Changes Of Atmosphere at the time, so quite often I would stop by the shop so we could discuss featurings, label deals, yadda yadda.. So anyway, Phinydee had In My Element playing in the background, and of course Dillalude caught my ear... “hold on, what is this ?!” But shortly we got back into babbling about distribution, mastering, budget and all that, so I didn't get to give the album a proper listening. Until october 2009. A that time, Robert's latest, Doubled Booked, was on heavy rotation at the crib, and after I twat (twitted ?) about it, twitters @FROactiv and @fwmj advised me to get my hands on In My Element. A couple weeks later I found a copy in Archambault in MTL, so I copped it, went home and played it and... DAYMN! This album is 1) very dope 2) absolutely full of samples. Some of the interludes are basically hip-hop beats already... So.. I was like, I can't sample the whole album and get away with it, can I ? Can I ??? I felt guilty already, so I figured I might as well do it, but call it a remix album or something.. And I started making these beats. So there you go now, The Robert Glasper Beattape is up for free download. If you like it, please support good music by copping In My Element, you’ll like it too. It’s on iTunes, and you should be able to find the CD in the jazz section of your nearest record store.. Enjoy

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