Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  DJ Rap

  Propa Classics Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Forget the cleavage. Forget the sell-out pop album she did for Sony. Remember the reason you know the name DJ Rap. Breaking into the vaults...

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  Medeski Martin and Wood

  Uninvisible

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  I've always hated how jazz purists seem to think that jazz stopped evolving sometime in the 1960s and how everything post-fusion is somethi...

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  Various

  Urban Renewal: The Songs of Phil Collins

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Wow. Somebody important must have heard Eminem phrase-dropping Phil Collins in "Stan" and thought, "Hey, let's make a whole record of black...

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  Lee "Scratch" Perry

  It's His Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Bob Marley may be the martyred prophet but during his five decades behind the boards, legendary producer Lee "Scratch" Perry has played the...

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  Various

  Recline: A Six Degrees Collection of Chilled Grooves

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Sometimes label samplers are a cash-grab, other times they save you much money by eliminating extraneous tracks to give you a taste of what...

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  Labtekwon

  Song of the Sovereign

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  If underground demi-legend Labtekwon's latest release sounds old school, that's because it is. Mush Records has assembled a greatest hits c...

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  Ludacris

  Word of Mouf

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Admittedly, this next-generation Busta Rhymes mined ghetto gold with his hilarious Nate Dogg-assisted "Area Codes" and Timbaland-built "Rol...

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  Jordy Birch

  Fun Machine

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  That dude from Pure has released a solo album. Unfortunately, Beck already released it. Nevertheless, Jordy Birch's eclectic college-rock c...