Black, White, & Asian. Coming to Nectar on Friday
May 27th, 2008
Giant Panda has hit the ground running with their sophomore release, “Electric Laser”. It’s getting a first spin here at the home office of Seattle Subsonic and my tappin’ feet are already heading off to Fremont. For Portlanders, catch ‘em Thursday night. The 206 crowd gets a Friday night show at Nectar with Iguales and Godspeed.
The first album was a “Reunion” of memories of beats of the past. It read like a bibliography for this period in “late hiphop“. It wasn’t mired in old school sentiment, but like a guy on his first date, it was on pretty good behavior to woo its audience, lure us in. Producer Thes One‘s samples were fresh but not totally foreign to the ears of those had a few People Under the Stairs albums. This “Laser” blasts us from the future, dropping references to robots, (cyber)space, YouTube, the web, right-clicks, instant messaging and raps in Japanese. Shit, Japan is so futuristic it’s literally tomorrow there right now. This project makes good on every hope I had for this trio. Make a date with GP. Nectar. Friday night.
(Does this remind anyone else of the most-recent record covers for Lyrics Born and Lifesavas?)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
dj100proof said:
I need this album.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
misterlevitan said:
Come check out the show Friday and get yourself a copy. See you there.