JEL - Look Up
- il y a 11 ans
From the LP, Late Pass, out now:
anticon.com/item/late-pass
itunes.apple.com/us/album/late-pass/id680957016
Directed and edited by Adèle Miossec
Original Idea by Josquin Champion
Camera Benjamin Chabeau and Gaisneau Pugin
Calibration by Sylvain Canaux
Assistant Director: Quentin Forget and Harmonie Rey
Make up: Pascalyne Lopez
with Sophie Chamoux, Renaud Cathelineau, Joris Larochelle, Carole Huitorel, Anna Mimouni, Philippe Roger, Stephanette Martelet, Julie Diano, Jean Charles Moreau, Joelle Hélary, Morgane Stroobant, Quentin Forget, Claire Guillon, René Mettoudi, David Mettoudi, Didier Morvan, Christophe Davis, Salvatore Mingoïa, Johann Morio, Marine Le Bonnois, Christophe, Jean Christophe Bouvet, Catherine Noel
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Imagine Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad detonating explosives under the prog-rock grooves of German experimental behemoths, Can. These ideas seem mutually exclusive, but they’re not. The evidence is in the shrapnel funk of Late Pass, the third album from Anticon co-founder, Jel. As the scarred vocals of the title track instruct: don’t get too comfortable.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Chicago-bred, Bay-area based producer/rapper born Jeffrey Logan, he’s on the shortlist for best indie rap producer of the last decade. Admittedly, this sort of hyperbole comes standard issue in one-sheets, but Jel has the necessary resume.
His career traces back to Deep Puddle Dynamics, a group featuring Slug of Atmosphere and Jel’s frequent collaborator, Doseone. Later forming Subtle, Themselves, and 13 & God, Jel and Dose’s blitzkrieg experimentations remain visionary and futuristic—they’re also among the few times rock and rap have ever successfully gotten high together. Most recently, Jel co-produced the Kenny Dennis EP and C.A.R. with Odd Nosdam for label mate, Serengeti, two similarly brilliant blends of high concept ideas, hover-converted boom bap, and the occasional rib tip sandwich.
On paper, it seems a little strange that Late Pass is only his third official solo record. But not when you consider it’s meticulousness. Samples, hard-slapping drums, and damaged vocals are stitched with surgical precision. Six years in the making, Late Pass was casually co-produced by Odd Nosdam at his cottage studio, Burnco Berkeley, just blocks from the legendary Fantasy Studios. And it was at Fantasy that engineer Jesse Nichols assisted on the album's final mix, blowing the icing off the cake with the very same model SSL mixing board that Dr. Dre favored throughout the late 80's and 90's. In a 2006 online Q & A for Esquire Magazine, Jel expressed to Quincy Jones that "It's never too late man, never too late to take as much time needed to finish an album, to finish it right." Late Pass was fully baked by mastering guru Daddy Kev..
anticon.com/item/late-pass
itunes.apple.com/us/album/late-pass/id680957016
Directed and edited by Adèle Miossec
Original Idea by Josquin Champion
Camera Benjamin Chabeau and Gaisneau Pugin
Calibration by Sylvain Canaux
Assistant Director: Quentin Forget and Harmonie Rey
Make up: Pascalyne Lopez
with Sophie Chamoux, Renaud Cathelineau, Joris Larochelle, Carole Huitorel, Anna Mimouni, Philippe Roger, Stephanette Martelet, Julie Diano, Jean Charles Moreau, Joelle Hélary, Morgane Stroobant, Quentin Forget, Claire Guillon, René Mettoudi, David Mettoudi, Didier Morvan, Christophe Davis, Salvatore Mingoïa, Johann Morio, Marine Le Bonnois, Christophe, Jean Christophe Bouvet, Catherine Noel
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Imagine Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad detonating explosives under the prog-rock grooves of German experimental behemoths, Can. These ideas seem mutually exclusive, but they’re not. The evidence is in the shrapnel funk of Late Pass, the third album from Anticon co-founder, Jel. As the scarred vocals of the title track instruct: don’t get too comfortable.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Chicago-bred, Bay-area based producer/rapper born Jeffrey Logan, he’s on the shortlist for best indie rap producer of the last decade. Admittedly, this sort of hyperbole comes standard issue in one-sheets, but Jel has the necessary resume.
His career traces back to Deep Puddle Dynamics, a group featuring Slug of Atmosphere and Jel’s frequent collaborator, Doseone. Later forming Subtle, Themselves, and 13 & God, Jel and Dose’s blitzkrieg experimentations remain visionary and futuristic—they’re also among the few times rock and rap have ever successfully gotten high together. Most recently, Jel co-produced the Kenny Dennis EP and C.A.R. with Odd Nosdam for label mate, Serengeti, two similarly brilliant blends of high concept ideas, hover-converted boom bap, and the occasional rib tip sandwich.
On paper, it seems a little strange that Late Pass is only his third official solo record. But not when you consider it’s meticulousness. Samples, hard-slapping drums, and damaged vocals are stitched with surgical precision. Six years in the making, Late Pass was casually co-produced by Odd Nosdam at his cottage studio, Burnco Berkeley, just blocks from the legendary Fantasy Studios. And it was at Fantasy that engineer Jesse Nichols assisted on the album's final mix, blowing the icing off the cake with the very same model SSL mixing board that Dr. Dre favored throughout the late 80's and 90's. In a 2006 online Q & A for Esquire Magazine, Jel expressed to Quincy Jones that "It's never too late man, never too late to take as much time needed to finish an album, to finish it right." Late Pass was fully baked by mastering guru Daddy Kev..