Member Since: 10/17/2005
Band Website: You're smelling it.
Band Members: Nattu Daoud - Producer
Rahlow's Complex
...and all those who contribute, collaborate and support.
Influences: One can't front on all the one hit wonders...
And all the solid acts:
Kool Herc, Sounds & Things (Herc's rec'a sto'), R.Ayers, B. James, Q.Jones, Afrika Bambaataa, B-boys, MJ, LedZep, Beatles, BDP, Dusk & The Root-Down Sound System... especially Gabbah days, ATCQ, Eric B. & Rakim, De La, Common, Gang Starr, N.E.R.D, Jigga, Depech Mode, H.Hancock, Pete Rock & CL, X-Clan, Diamond D, Organized Konfusion, The Roots, Slum Village, Jay Dee/J Dilla, Pink Floyd, Prince Paul, Bad Brains, Fishbone, B. James, Ndegeocello, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Duran Duran, D'Angelo, Morris Day & The Time, Todd Snider (You'll laugh), Donny Hathaway, Large Pro, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Fela, Axelrod, Laws (brothers), Soulquarians, Ummah, Howie Tee, Eddie F., Premier, Herbie Love Bug, Living Color, Bad Brains, B & W Marsalis, Depech Mode... Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (you and I were raised on Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis... maybe you just don't know it.) *more
The following are not necessarily influences, but definatley cool and YOU should check them out: Sa-Ra, J*Davey, Georgia Anne Muldrow (on 2nd thought I didn't grow up listening to them however evething I hear influences me), *more...
*Classic stuff...
J Dilla Interview:
On staying in the studio; Quest connecting Dilla with Common, connect w/Tribe;
On ATCQ skit "Beats, Rhymes, &..."; On J. Jackson-"Got 'Til Its Gone" (Dilla & Tip got no credit); On Slum Village being slept on; On MCA;
...PARTS 2, 3, and 4 are in a blog.
They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)...
Check out:
Behind the Beat
by Rafael Rashid
and
Bedroom Rockers: Where DJs Call Home
by Christopher Woodcock
Sounds Like: You tell me...
Record Label: Moorish Daze Music
Type of Label: Indie