{"id":12121,"date":"2014-02-27T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdking_britt_presents\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:03","slug":"cdkingbrittpresents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdkingbrittpresents\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: King Britt presents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKing Britt presents
\n“The Philadelphia Experiment” (remixed)
\n(RopeADope Records)<\/h4>\n

Disclaimer: \u00a0I am in no way authorized or competent enough to offer any credible opinions on the world of DJ’s, dub, jazz or any contemporary fusion of the three. \u00a0That said, this is thoroughly impressive. \u00a0To understand this release properly, one has to understand there is first an album called, ‘The Philadelphia Experiment’ that resulted from four masters of different flavors of funk (Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson (drums), Christian McBride (bass), Uri Caine (Keyboards) and Pat Martino (guitar)), without preparation, locked themselves together for three days to create the album. \u00a0The band decided to allow a DJ to remix the sessions and chose King Britt (most recognizable as the Digable Planets DJ). \u00a0With some guest producers lending influence on certain tracks, the album takes on many flavors, while maintaining a unifying funky\/jazzy-ness playing off the more atmospheric flavorings of the keyboards. \u00a0Obviously, as with most music of this nature, some tracks are repetitive and self-indulgent, taking forever to bring the listener through the journey of the song (the track ‘Philadelphia Experiment (DJ Ghe Remix) blew the vibe of the disk up until that point and is the track skipper here). \u00a0The draw for the novice DJ listener is that most all these song hit with a fairly upbeat and pumping tempo, but completely bypassing ‘thump thump thump’ of the DJ club staple. \u00a0Much more jazzy and loose here. \u00a0I swiped this out of the pile and claimed it for the Bushman. \u00a0Not sure if there is any credibility to that, but it’s the first piece of DJ culture that I’ve claimed for my own listening pleasure. \u00a0And a pleasure to listen this most definitely is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Britt presents “The Philadelphia Experiment” (remixed) (RopeADope Records) Disclaimer: \u00a0I am in no way authorized or competent enough to offer any credible opinions on the world of DJ’s, dub, jazz or any contemporary fusion of the three. \u00a0That said, this is thoroughly impressive. \u00a0To understand this release properly, one has to understand there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[4033,6114,7524],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}