We're going off road this week, down the paths of hip-hop's loose tangents. As per our normal routine, it always returns to the beats.
Over at our blog (broken record says The Boogie Spot is still over at Quick DFW.com), it was kind of depressing the last week or so. J-Kidd and Jo-Ho items were a little on the downer side. But the NBA schedule came out, and that lifted the spirits a little. Plus there's some choice music for you to sample.
Where were we? Rambling can be a tough go.
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HOW YOU LIKE THAT?
Last spring, at our Quick's Big Thing shindig, the boys in the rap-rock-soul outfit Big Red Rooster walked away with the Next Big Thing honor. It was an appropriate award for a band that goes about its business in workman like fashion. All choices seem to be based on working the angles and creating buzz – and there hasn't been a misstep yet.
The group's collaboration with Dallas rap legends Mr. Pookie and Mr. Lucci opened the door for further genre-bending explorations, including the massive-sounding "How You Like That" with Slim Thug.
The band also signed a production deal with local heroes Play-N-Skillz that places them on an even bigger stage. All this networking has helped to expand the sound of a band that formed when its original members were attending SMU.
The recent addition of R&B crooner J Sabin complements MC Multi-ID (above) in a way that adds soul to the funk-rock foundation, thus removing it further from the Linkin Park-Limp Bizkit realm.
The group picks and chooses its spots, so Dallas gigs are few and far between. But you'll get a chance to taste them live next Wednesday when they open for Earshot at House of Blues.
To check out some tracks and get info on the upcoming gig, hit up myspace.com/thebigredrooster.
I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
Two new CD compilations from the vaults of Fania Records are getting heavy rotation at SS Headquarters. The first is Fania DJ Series: Gilles Peterson – a double-CD comp of cuts by the globe's most revered tastemaker/DJ during the beat era.
Peterson, a noted Strange Fruit Project fan, delivers the goods with a choice mixture of jazzy Latin soul and Afro-Cuban tumbao.
On I Like It Like That, the beat-heads take over, as some of the world's biggest DJs and producers remix dancefloor heaters from the Fania library. The hip-hop/beat-digger crowd will especially respond to Quantic and DJ Format, while the house-music-all-night-long set will eat up the work of Louie Vega.
PARTING SHOT
Pikahsso and Tahiti perform at the Cavern tonight (1914 Greenville Ave.). The mighty Headkrack is also on the bill.
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