Kutiman - Mother of All Funk Chords (2009)
I’ve been thinking a lot about DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing….., which I’ve probably listened all the way through at least 200 times. And I’ve been kinda wallowing in the fact that while it’s one of the best albums ever created, it’s nearly fifteen years old, and given recent history didn’t exactly chart a trajectory of instrumental hip-hop.
DJ Shadow was the freakin’ Mozart of the Akai MPC60, and even though Endtroducing….. probably deserves to be hung up in a museum somewhere, that was not the direction he wanted his creative work to go: “Repeat Endtroducing over and over again? That was never, ever in the game plan. Fuck that. So I think it’s time for certain fans to decide if they are fans of the album, or the artist.”
So, while I respect Joshua Paul Davis’ autonomy, his basic human right to do whatever the fuck he pleases with his livelihood, let me go on record as a fan of the album, further, a fan of the genre ushered in by Endtroducing….. And to see where that takes us, as of 2009 we must look no further than Kutiman’s ThruYOU project.
I realized today that I hadn’t watched Mother of All Funk Chords in over a year, a negligence I have since remedied.
