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MH-205 Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Wave Motion  Wave Motion, the first full-length instrumental release from Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician of The Five Deez, explores the deeper side of instrumental hip-hop. Using mature production and seductive jazz samples, Jon has created a truly notable record. Taking equal inspiration from 60's Kind Of Blue jazz and 70's Innervisions soul, Jon has crafted a release that chooses understated melodies and chord changes over cheap thrill loops and scratches. It is the work of someone who has spent years in the studio; it is the work of someone who has created thousands of tracks. Wave Motion is Fat Jon's finest work to date and a solid addition to the Mush catalog. |
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| Impressive - YRB / Multi-layered labor of love - CMJ / Masterfully Executed - Scratch / I just wish more producers would do this more - Ghetto Blaster / Meticulously composed and arranged - Urb / Proves that hip-hop is about more than the MC - Billboard / An undiscovered classic - Grooves / The more I listen to this, the better it gets - Mean Street |
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| If the early '90s are still the gold standard of soulful hip-hop production, Fat Jon's Wave Motion is like an undiscovered classic from that era. The mood is mostly mellow, even dour at times, but always leavened by the occasional fun track like "Watch Out." Fat Jon has supplied beats for some big names (Rakim, Black Starr, and his own group the Five Deez), but for his own instrumentals, the beats are cut with equal parts appreciation for Pete Rock and early 70's Stevie Wonder. It's Fat Jon's sharp ear for chord progressions and knack for crafting soulful sounds that recall past eras that keep Wave Motion out of the solipsistic, Midnight Marauders-worshipping cycle that drags down most instrumental hip-hop releases and makes this one fly by. - Grooves |
1XLP/Out Of Print