Blockhead - The Music Scene (Full Album)

Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on 'The Music Scene' he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."

[00:00] It's Raining Clouds
[05:52] The Music Scene
[10:40] Only Sequences Change
[15:22] Which One of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer
[20:10] Attack the Doctor
[25:54] The Prettiest Sea Slug
[30:27] The Daily Routine
[37:15] Tricky Turtle
[41:50] Four Walls
[47:31] Pity Party
[51:55] Hell Camp
[56:33] Farewell Spaceman

Blockhead's ambition to "tell stories without words" is evident from opener 'It's Raining Clouds' onwards. The tune starts off as classic downtempo and ends up almost drum and bass, the music having changed and fallen away, echoing back through itself and feeding into previous themes at least three times - it's an epic in an album of epics.

Released: November 2, 2009
Genre: Instrumental hip hop, electronica, trip hop
Label : Ninja Tune
Producer: Blockhead

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I don't own any of these songs or tracks, Im just sharing this material for educational purposes.