DE LA SOUL: And The Anonymous Nobody

Format: CD
Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Aoi Records
Release Date: 29.08.2016
Order Number: ZRAOI001CD

Here is the first De La Soul studio album in eleven years!!! And as independent artists, free of record labels interfering in the creative process.

True to the roots of Hip-Hop, the new album incorporates elements of Jazz, Funk, Rock, Country Western and more sampled to create the tracks. Sampling is how De La has always made music but after spending a huge part of their career fighting off the "sample police", De La decided to take a completely new approach, something Hip-Hop hasn't done before...sampling themselves.

Over three years, De La collaborated with some of LA's finest studio musicians and recorded them in free-styled, unrehearsed, jam sessions. They played everything from banjo to upright bass, sometimes up to a dozen musicians at once; simply allowing sounds to integrate.

Recorded in one of LA's most classic studios, Vox, the recordings have that creamy analog warm mixing board sound that the old records our parent's once played had. With over 200 hours of sounds, and vibes, equal to about 250 to 300 full-length vinyl LPs, De La began listening, enjoying and discovering those special moments where, musically, something magical happens, where interesting sounds and layers were forgotten, where new sounds can be sampled, looped, chopped, filtered and arranged, freely, without the intrusive presence of publishing politics and the infamous "sample police."

Also available as 2LP and Limited Colored 2LP!

Tracklist
  1. Genesis (intro)[feat. jill scott]
  2. Royalty capes
  3. Pain (feat. snoop dogg)
  4. Property of spitkicker.com (feat. roc marciano)
  5. Memory of... (us)[feat. estelle & pete rock]
  6. Cbgbs
  7. Lord intended (feat. justin hawkins)
  8. Snoopies (feat. david bryne)
  9. Greyhounds (feat. usher)
  10. Sexy bitch
  11. Trainwreck
  12. Drawn (feat. little dragon)
  13. Whoodeeni (feat. 2chainz)
  14. Nosed up
  15. You go dave (a goldblatt presentation)
  16. Here in after (feat. damon albarn)
  17. Exodus (outro)