![]() I'll admit that somewhere in here lies a damn strong record, but it takes a lot of fast-forwarding to find it. As an album, though, The Further Adventures of Lord Quas doesn't cut it. 3" buzzes with breakbeat intensity as Quas rips through his all-time favorite MCs, and Doom returns with some Madvillainy shine on "Closer". Shit, cut out a half-dozen two-minute sleepers and the rest of the material is actually rock solid: "Rappcats, Pt. In Madlib's defense, there is a ton of evidence of his genius at work here. (That loop at the end of "Shroom Music"? The 30-second Nick at Nite samples? Come on, dude.) But Madlib isn't pretentious he's just imperfect, and when you head into a project like this expecting- even hoping for- 27 stream-of-conscious studio experiments, it colors the whole thing differently. Were Madlib not the stoned-face iconoclast we all know and love, it would be easy to point to these kinds of seemingly mindless excursions as pomposity. Quasimoto (also known as Lord Quas) is the alter ego and side project of hip-hop producer Madlib, from Oxnard, California.Quas is known for the raised pitch of his voice that sounds like he’s. I'm a huge Madlib fan, but there's a lot of nonsense here. We aren't all stoners, and the sad truth is, "Bus Ride" really is just a couple of monotonous Melvin Van Peebles samples, and Madlib's snickerings, lugubrious bloops and weedtalk on "Greenery" really aren't all that fascinating. ![]() But again, taking it at face value, on those terms, would be to gloss over missteps out of deference to the record's concept. If it's slow, then it's reflective if it's sparse, then it's minimalist. Who wants to be the first to say it? I mean, on one hand, if it's unfocused, it's probably because it's a fucking stoner album. Further Adventures plays something like a smoked-out comedy/crime Blaxploitation flick, and continued to cement Madlib's reputation as one of the most creative and fearlessly skewed creators in hip-hop. Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas. This is the second full-length album by Quasimoto and Madlib, following The Unseen. The problem here is that pieces of Misadventures simply aren't finished. The Further Adventures of Lord Quas is out there, even by his own standards. This is actually not awful logic: Madlib's work is generally worth seeking out, even when it's beneath his usual standards. ![]() The artist has a vice-like grip on a whole legion of followers, many of which are loyal enough to his creative muse that, for them, the joy of a genuinely rewarding listen is secondary to the joy of just hearing what he cooks up. Those types of comments aren't surprising coming from a Madlib fan, though. Otherwise, Macho Man's Be a Man would be the greatest album of all time. Obviously, that's just not the way it works- records can't be rewarded purely based on speculation or concept. He argued that Madlib and his pig-faced sidekick are so unique that critics shouldn't discourage their creativity. A friend of mine suggested that I give the new Quasimoto album a positive review without even hearing it. ![]()
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