I'm gonna need to check that out sometime.
I've been listening to TONS of jazzy hip-hop (and regular hip-hop) lately. It's such a shame that jazzy hip-hop is so under the radar... There are some amazing people making that sort of stuff, but it's so hard to find.
If anyone's interested, I could make a little grab-bag of tracks I've been listening to lately (not just hip-hop, though, I've been listening to other stuff as well, such as Beirut, Elliott Smith, Angela Aki, Ephel Duath, and other stuff.)
Actually, I just re-listened to American Edit, which is a mashup album using Green Day's American Idiot as it's main source. I swear that album is pure fucking genius. It's not a mashup the way you might hear at a club where they mash maybe a beat with a well known track, and leave it at that, there are so many layers of sampling and such that it absolutely amazes me. Plus, the entire album is mixed in key, so none of the samples jar or anything, because they are all in the same key.
One of my favourite tracks form the mashup:
Dr. Who On HolidayWhich samples:
Speech by George W. Bush, (January 3, 2003, Fort Hood, Texas)
Speech by the Daleks, (from episode 6 of "Genesis of the Daleks")
Green Day, "Holiday"
The Timelords, "Doctorin' the Tardis"
Gary Glitter, "Rock and Roll Part 2" (Sample used within "Doctorin' the Tardis")
Ron Grainer, The Doctor Who Theme Song (Sample used within "Doctorin' the Tardis")