Instrumental hip hop

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It's been a while, but I've been listening back to Preemptive Strike by DJ Shadow and also some stuff by Unkle and really enjoying it again. So are there any other instrumental hip hop albums you'd recommend?
 
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles, Cosmogramma



J Dilla - Donuts
Onra - Chinoiseries 1 & 2, Long Distance
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music, Modal Soul, Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection
 
DJ Premier
Pete Rock
J Dilla

Those tend to be the 'big three'
 


Quality tune.

My mate's been introducing me to Japanese hip hop over the last year or so and all, which is absolutely amazing. I am eternally grateful - it's probably the best genre of music (or at least my favourite) that I've come across.



:drool:!!
 
Im a big fan of instrumental hiphop - Ive got shitloads of it

For a start check out AIM - his debut Cold Water Music is a classic of the genre



 
Madlib has some good beat tapes, his beat konducta series is decent:



I think I found some old Dr.Dre beat tapes on the net once too, I'll look for them.
 
Anything by DJ Krush. He's a genius and similar to DJ Shadow's stuff.

Odd Nosdam

Atmosphere (Instrumentals from the LUCY EP)

Dr Octagan

DJ Cam (his stuff is sublime!)

 
14KT
Apollo Brown
Dviousmindz
Evil Needle
Hannibal King
Jansport J
Kenichiro Nishihara
Kyo Itachi
Oddisee
Octupus Jones
Uyama Hiroto

All have great instro albums.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, lads.

I'll get cracking on downloading some stuff over the weekend.
 
Plan M said:
Anything by DJ Krush. He's a genius and similar to DJ Shadow's stuff.

Odd Nosdam

Atmosphere (Instrumentals from the LUCY EP)

Dr Octagan

DJ Cam (his stuff is sublime!)
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Krush and Cam are good shouts

I prefer the original Dr Octagon album with rapping rather than the Instrumentalyst but even that is worth a listen
 
I've always felt Shadow was hugely overrated. Entroducing was so seminal and such a mainstream breakthrough hit it's often overlooked that outside of Building Steam & Organ Donor it's not that great an album. For me anyway. I can take or leave the rest of it. I only really like about 5 or so Shadow tracks tbh. Flying Lotus is also not my cup of tea. That video is really not what the majority of Cosmogramma is like...Which is a shame cos that tune's big.
 
Mockney said:
I've always felt Shadow was hugely overrated. Entroducing was so seminal and such a mainstream breakthrough hit it's often overlooked that outside of Building Steam & Organ Donor it's not that great an album. For me anyway. I can take or leave the rest of it. I only really like about 5 or so Shadow tracks tbh. Flying Lotus is also not my cup of tea. That video is really not what the majority of Cosmogramma is like...Which is a shame cos that tune's big.
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Yup, I don't really think the video does the song justice, but it seems to appeal to people who are not familiar with his music. He's as an acquired taste as they come really, took me about 3 years to really get into Los Angeles.
 
Some classics:

Pete Rock - Petestrumentals
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us Instrumentals
The Beatnuts - Hydra Beats, Vol. 5
Pete Rock - The Surviving Elements
K-Murdock - Breaks, Rhythms & Loops
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Blaq Poet - Tha Blaqprint Instrumentals
Arts the Beatdoctor - Transitions
RJD2 - In Rare Form
Blue Sky Black Death - The Razah’s Ladder Instrumentals
J. Rawls - The Liquid Crystal Project
Apollo Brown - Clouds
Melaz - Jazzy Trip
 
Well that didn't work, I clicked your post to quote Mockney, but accidentally clicked edit, and then proceeded to replace your post with my own. I got a bit back from the quote in the post below yours, but from memory you've lost the Deltron 3030 bit and videos (in case you want to edit them back in there).

This is what I was meant to do.

Mockney said:
I've always felt Shadow was hugely overrated. Entroducing was so seminal and such a mainstream breakthrough hit it's often overlooked that outside of Building Steam & Organ Donor it's not that great an album. For me anyway. I can take or leave the rest of it.
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For me there's a lot of exceptional tracks on the album. Changeling, Midnight In A Perfect World and What Does Your Soul Look Like Part 1 are incredible, on a par with Building Steam at least.

I do however, hate everything else he has done outside of it, apart from one tune, maybe called 'Giving up the ghost' or something. His albums since are a joke.
 


This Evian Christ guy has been generating a buzz recently on YouTube, only has about eight or so tracks but he's getting serious recognition at the moment. Has some excellent production I'd recommend a listen on YouTube, see what you make of it.
 
I just listened to Preemptive Strike yesterday as well, one of the greatest electronic albums ever!

'Endtroducing...' by Shadow is excellent, as well as Kakusei by DJ Krush, Mad Blunted Jazz by DJ Cam and the instrumental version of Dr. Octagon's 'The Doctoroctagonacologyst', called 'The Instrumentalyst.'
 
RJD2, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, Tricky, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Radar, Basement Jaxx, Bedrock is excellent if you can find some, Mix Master Mike, The Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Q-bert, DJ Logic, Cut Chemist, DJ Food, Dan the Automator, Deltron 3030 has an instrumental verison, Del the Funky Homosapien [same guy], DJ Soul Slinger is excellent, Dzendian, FC Kahuna, Groove Armada, and some of Board of Canada.
 
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