Lawless Element – Soundvision: In Stereo (CD) (2005) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Detroit’s Lawless Element don’t come anywhere close to deposing the hip-hop that defined the mid-’90s. But, in fumbling for greatness, they get a good grip on what made that music resonate so clearly during my childhood. The golden age reverberates throughout “The Crew”, as wave after wave of a sample—one word from A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip—hits you. love, Love, LOve, LOVe, LOVE. It’s as if Tip’s voice visits from the past just long enough to let that one word out. Behind that, the strings sob and some hopped-up Nintendo percussion throbs with the intensity of a strobe “seizure” light.

Lawless Element hugs the aural aesthetic of those fabled years that fell between De La Soul’s Three Feet High and Rising (1989) and De La Soul’s Stakes Is High (1996). For those nostalgic for that era, Soundvision: In Stereo revives the formula, with a well-timed throwback to the boom-bap.

Tracklist:

01. Soundvision
02. Crew (feat. P.Dot & Selfsays)
03. The Shining
04. One Night (feat. Melanie Rutherford)
05. Rules Pt. 2
06. Represent/Motown (feat. Big Tone & Phat Kat)
07. Love (feat. J Dilla)
08. Words from Dilla
09. High
10. …Something (Remix) (feat. Diverse)
11. Move (feat. Melanie Rutherford)
12. Higher

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare