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Parisian hip-hop devotee Laurent Daumail is one of a few but growing number of French artists updating hip-hop for the chill-out crowd, drawing on the beats’n’samples groundwork of producers such as Rakim, DJ Premier, and Prince Paul and combining it with broad, impressionistic strokes of dub, jazz, and soundtrack-y ambience. Like countrymen the Mighty Bop and la Funk Mob, Cam is stylistically closest to Mo’Wax artists such as DJ Shadow and DJ Krush; minimalist, downbeat instrumental hip-hop built from obscure samples and stomp-box turntable accompaniment, bent and twisted into new, artfully arranged compositions.
His debut, 1994’s Underground Vibes, was released on the tiny French label Street Jazz and was followed by a live recording for the Inflammable imprint (one of only a few “live” recordings in a genre so reliant on the temporal concessions of the recording studio). Dubbed Underground Live, the album featured performed extrapolations of many of the tracks from his debut, as well as a few new and improvised tracks. Now nearly impossible to find, those first two albums were reissued in America by Shadow Records, packaged together as the single-CD priced Mad Blunted Jazz (particularly useful since acquiring both on import could run more than 50 dollars!).
Although Cam’s music has found little acceptance in his home country, audiences in the U.K., Japan, and America have begun picking up on his style. In 1996 Cam was featured on, among many others, the sprawling Mo’Wax compilation Headz 2, remixed tracks for such artists as Tek 9 and la Funk Mob, and most recently collaborated on live and in-studio projects with Snooze and DJ Krush (he co-wrote a few tracks on the latter’s 1997 Mo’Wax release, Mi Sound).
His debut, 1994’s Underground Vibes, was released on the tiny French label Street Jazz and was followed by a live recording for the Inflammable imprint (one of only a few “live” recordings in a genre so reliant on the temporal concessions of the recording studio). Dubbed Underground Live, the album featured performed extrapolations of many of the tracks from his debut, as well as a few new and improvised tracks. Now nearly impossible to find, those first two albums were reissued in America by Shadow Records, packaged together as the single-CD priced Mad Blunted Jazz (particularly useful since acquiring both on import could run more than 50 dollars!).
Although Cam’s music has found little acceptance in his home country, audiences in the U.K., Japan, and America have begun picking up on his style. In 1996 Cam was featured on, among many others, the sprawling Mo’Wax compilation Headz 2, remixed tracks for such artists as Tek 9 and la Funk Mob, and most recently collaborated on live and in-studio projects with Snooze and DJ Krush (he co-wrote a few tracks on the latter’s 1997 Mo’Wax release, Mi Sound).
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Suckers Never Play That
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Success (Thievery Corporation remix)
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BreakfastPills wrote:
Note to self: check this out.
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djcratedigger wrote:
Yo this new Metaform steez is crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxTFiC7GsM
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Alex0112 wrote:
Lush fusion of Hip Hop/ Jazz: http://www.last.fm/music/Young+Funk+Chump/Equal+Rights+For+Beats/The+Whitesox+Shuffle
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rodanside wrote:
Mm, I dig the Loa Project a little more. It's spotty, but it has some of his best tunes. "Juliet" is the most valuable thing he ever produced.
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theleft wrote:
cam calPRO
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darkgnome wrote:
Mad Blunted Jazz & Subtances are the only good albums :)
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asszor wrote:
great music
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DuzyJot wrote:
ziom rzadzisz
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Rimmo wrote:
@djcratedigger thanks for link
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reimusho wrote:
very nice
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djcratedigger wrote:
If you dig Cam you should checkout Metaform's latest mixtape, free download from his homepage: www.metaformonline.com It's a bit darker than GT, more for the smokers and chillers ;0)
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peresto wrote:
one of the best dj's in world - yeh :)
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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
ABSTRACT AND TRIP-HOP ARTIST, COME CHECK THIS PAGE : http://www.last.fm/music/Oz+Alchemist
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houselova wrote:
always beautiful
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MongrelArchitec wrote:
genius
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tinosoft89 wrote:
http://www.lastfm.es/group/Chillout%2B%2526%2BLounge%2BM%25C3%25A9xico, para los que les agrada disfrutar de una buena bebida leyendo en su sala de estar...
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dukon wrote:
Substances 1996 + Fillet Of Soul 2003
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globalsunset wrote:
After Mad Blunted Jazz.. what should I check next?
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bucknasty0423 wrote:
Head nod shit for real. ((d-_-b))
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kraff01 wrote:
17.07 @ Warsaw!!!!!!
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