Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3
Traxman
Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3
Boomkat Product Review:
Featuring Sinjin Hawke, Bobby Skillz and DJ Twan, ghetto house and juke veteran Traxman's latest volume arrives a decade after its predecessor and features just the same level of crate digger's knowhow, slotting classic hip-hop, soul, funk and dancehall samples into frenetic footwork flows.
Cornelius Ferguson's been there since the beginning, not just helping to architect footwork in its early days, alongside his Ghetto Teknitianz cohorts DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, but shaping ghetto house in his own image way back in the mid-'90s. His calling card since 2012's 'Da Mind of Traxman' has been his Dilla-like way with samples - from Prince and Kraftwerk to AC/DC, anything goes - and it's this mentality that's kept his percussive, bare-bones productions vital for so damn long. The sneakiest sample on this one is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it portamento squeak from LFO's 'LFO' that beds the soulful vocal on 'We Can Go', but we're just getting started.
Traxman snips an atrophied vocal from Chicago's Bobby Skillz on 'Kill the DJ', letting it crack and distort over his sparse snare trills and rumbling subs until Sinjin Hawke's unmistakable stabs herald a switch-up into Dance Mania-style ghetto house. On 'I'll Write the Hook', he pairs Benny the Butcher's 'Bust a Brick Nick' flow with the chopped up remnants of Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' strings - the same epic stabs that carried Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', and 'Round 1' turns the sound board from 'Mortal Kombat' into a polyrhythmic swing of bitcrushed punches and decayed "finish him" calls.
Even Carly Simon's 'Son of a Gun' is subjected to Traxman's razor on 'I Bet U Think This Track Is About U!!', cut against booming kicks and a looping vocal, and he slots in a couple of smoother grooves as the album comes to a close, shredding synth-y funk on 'It Never Rains' and contorting what sounds like Michael McDonald's voice on the soft rock-inflected closer 'Day And Night Time'. There's so much here, it sounds as if Traxman's rifling through his shelves and reasserting his dominance with style - and most crucially, with humor.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Featuring Sinjin Hawke, Bobby Skillz and DJ Twan, ghetto house and juke veteran Traxman's latest volume arrives a decade after its predecessor and features just the same level of crate digger's knowhow, slotting classic hip-hop, soul, funk and dancehall samples into frenetic footwork flows.
Cornelius Ferguson's been there since the beginning, not just helping to architect footwork in its early days, alongside his Ghetto Teknitianz cohorts DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, but shaping ghetto house in his own image way back in the mid-'90s. His calling card since 2012's 'Da Mind of Traxman' has been his Dilla-like way with samples - from Prince and Kraftwerk to AC/DC, anything goes - and it's this mentality that's kept his percussive, bare-bones productions vital for so damn long. The sneakiest sample on this one is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it portamento squeak from LFO's 'LFO' that beds the soulful vocal on 'We Can Go', but we're just getting started.
Traxman snips an atrophied vocal from Chicago's Bobby Skillz on 'Kill the DJ', letting it crack and distort over his sparse snare trills and rumbling subs until Sinjin Hawke's unmistakable stabs herald a switch-up into Dance Mania-style ghetto house. On 'I'll Write the Hook', he pairs Benny the Butcher's 'Bust a Brick Nick' flow with the chopped up remnants of Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' strings - the same epic stabs that carried Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', and 'Round 1' turns the sound board from 'Mortal Kombat' into a polyrhythmic swing of bitcrushed punches and decayed "finish him" calls.
Even Carly Simon's 'Son of a Gun' is subjected to Traxman's razor on 'I Bet U Think This Track Is About U!!', cut against booming kicks and a looping vocal, and he slots in a couple of smoother grooves as the album comes to a close, shredding synth-y funk on 'It Never Rains' and contorting what sounds like Michael McDonald's voice on the soft rock-inflected closer 'Day And Night Time'. There's so much here, it sounds as if Traxman's rifling through his shelves and reasserting his dominance with style - and most crucially, with humor.
Boomkat Product Review:
Featuring Sinjin Hawke, Bobby Skillz and DJ Twan, ghetto house and juke veteran Traxman's latest volume arrives a decade after its predecessor and features just the same level of crate digger's knowhow, slotting classic hip-hop, soul, funk and dancehall samples into frenetic footwork flows.
Cornelius Ferguson's been there since the beginning, not just helping to architect footwork in its early days, alongside his Ghetto Teknitianz cohorts DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, but shaping ghetto house in his own image way back in the mid-'90s. His calling card since 2012's 'Da Mind of Traxman' has been his Dilla-like way with samples - from Prince and Kraftwerk to AC/DC, anything goes - and it's this mentality that's kept his percussive, bare-bones productions vital for so damn long. The sneakiest sample on this one is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it portamento squeak from LFO's 'LFO' that beds the soulful vocal on 'We Can Go', but we're just getting started.
Traxman snips an atrophied vocal from Chicago's Bobby Skillz on 'Kill the DJ', letting it crack and distort over his sparse snare trills and rumbling subs until Sinjin Hawke's unmistakable stabs herald a switch-up into Dance Mania-style ghetto house. On 'I'll Write the Hook', he pairs Benny the Butcher's 'Bust a Brick Nick' flow with the chopped up remnants of Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' strings - the same epic stabs that carried Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', and 'Round 1' turns the sound board from 'Mortal Kombat' into a polyrhythmic swing of bitcrushed punches and decayed "finish him" calls.
Even Carly Simon's 'Son of a Gun' is subjected to Traxman's razor on 'I Bet U Think This Track Is About U!!', cut against booming kicks and a looping vocal, and he slots in a couple of smoother grooves as the album comes to a close, shredding synth-y funk on 'It Never Rains' and contorting what sounds like Michael McDonald's voice on the soft rock-inflected closer 'Day And Night Time'. There's so much here, it sounds as if Traxman's rifling through his shelves and reasserting his dominance with style - and most crucially, with humor.
Boomkat Product Review:
Featuring Sinjin Hawke, Bobby Skillz and DJ Twan, ghetto house and juke veteran Traxman's latest volume arrives a decade after its predecessor and features just the same level of crate digger's knowhow, slotting classic hip-hop, soul, funk and dancehall samples into frenetic footwork flows.
Cornelius Ferguson's been there since the beginning, not just helping to architect footwork in its early days, alongside his Ghetto Teknitianz cohorts DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, but shaping ghetto house in his own image way back in the mid-'90s. His calling card since 2012's 'Da Mind of Traxman' has been his Dilla-like way with samples - from Prince and Kraftwerk to AC/DC, anything goes - and it's this mentality that's kept his percussive, bare-bones productions vital for so damn long. The sneakiest sample on this one is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it portamento squeak from LFO's 'LFO' that beds the soulful vocal on 'We Can Go', but we're just getting started.
Traxman snips an atrophied vocal from Chicago's Bobby Skillz on 'Kill the DJ', letting it crack and distort over his sparse snare trills and rumbling subs until Sinjin Hawke's unmistakable stabs herald a switch-up into Dance Mania-style ghetto house. On 'I'll Write the Hook', he pairs Benny the Butcher's 'Bust a Brick Nick' flow with the chopped up remnants of Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' strings - the same epic stabs that carried Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', and 'Round 1' turns the sound board from 'Mortal Kombat' into a polyrhythmic swing of bitcrushed punches and decayed "finish him" calls.
Even Carly Simon's 'Son of a Gun' is subjected to Traxman's razor on 'I Bet U Think This Track Is About U!!', cut against booming kicks and a looping vocal, and he slots in a couple of smoother grooves as the album comes to a close, shredding synth-y funk on 'It Never Rains' and contorting what sounds like Michael McDonald's voice on the soft rock-inflected closer 'Day And Night Time'. There's so much here, it sounds as if Traxman's rifling through his shelves and reasserting his dominance with style - and most crucially, with humor.
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Estimated Release Date: 07 February 2025
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Boomkat Product Review:
Featuring Sinjin Hawke, Bobby Skillz and DJ Twan, ghetto house and juke veteran Traxman's latest volume arrives a decade after its predecessor and features just the same level of crate digger's knowhow, slotting classic hip-hop, soul, funk and dancehall samples into frenetic footwork flows.
Cornelius Ferguson's been there since the beginning, not just helping to architect footwork in its early days, alongside his Ghetto Teknitianz cohorts DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, but shaping ghetto house in his own image way back in the mid-'90s. His calling card since 2012's 'Da Mind of Traxman' has been his Dilla-like way with samples - from Prince and Kraftwerk to AC/DC, anything goes - and it's this mentality that's kept his percussive, bare-bones productions vital for so damn long. The sneakiest sample on this one is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it portamento squeak from LFO's 'LFO' that beds the soulful vocal on 'We Can Go', but we're just getting started.
Traxman snips an atrophied vocal from Chicago's Bobby Skillz on 'Kill the DJ', letting it crack and distort over his sparse snare trills and rumbling subs until Sinjin Hawke's unmistakable stabs herald a switch-up into Dance Mania-style ghetto house. On 'I'll Write the Hook', he pairs Benny the Butcher's 'Bust a Brick Nick' flow with the chopped up remnants of Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' strings - the same epic stabs that carried Pharoahe Monch's 'Simon Says', and 'Round 1' turns the sound board from 'Mortal Kombat' into a polyrhythmic swing of bitcrushed punches and decayed "finish him" calls.
Even Carly Simon's 'Son of a Gun' is subjected to Traxman's razor on 'I Bet U Think This Track Is About U!!', cut against booming kicks and a looping vocal, and he slots in a couple of smoother grooves as the album comes to a close, shredding synth-y funk on 'It Never Rains' and contorting what sounds like Michael McDonald's voice on the soft rock-inflected closer 'Day And Night Time'. There's so much here, it sounds as if Traxman's rifling through his shelves and reasserting his dominance with style - and most crucially, with humor.
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