Many thanks to my friend at Optimistic Underground who turned me onto this (and a lot of the best music in my life, to be honest). Bullion is a young DJ/producer from London who follows in the vein of recent instrumental and experimental hip-hop pioneers such as J Dilla, Dabrye, Prefuse 73, Daedelus, and Flying Lotus with these two releases.
He’s acclaimed by artists and producers such as Busy P, Mary-Anne Hobbes, and my all-time favorite Osborne, so with such star support I decided to check him out. Sure enough, the music’s good as gold. Opener Young Heartache weaves seamlessly between old romantic pop samples and the dreamy syncopated beats that scatter around it to create a timeless hip-hop composition that J Dilla would be proud of. These old-timey pop samples continue to crop up amongst chuggy, layered beat instrumentation that dispenses with the spacey ambiance of Flying Lotus, instead recalling a jazzier, more densely introspective J Dilla. This guy is gonna be huge soon, I can tell.
Favorite tracks: Rude Effort, Young Heartache, Time For Us All To Love, Are You The One?
April 16th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Hey man, thanks for the shout out here, I’m flattered! I noticed I was getting linked to from here and then realized to my shame that I’d not linked yours up. Well it is now. I love yr blog dude.