Blockhead
Blockhead - Music By Cavelight: 20 Year Anniversary Reissue (4 x Marbled Forest Green Coloured Vinyl LP) (Ninja Tune)
Format: 4 x Marbled Forest Green Vinyl LP
Cat No: ZEN88XX
The debut solo studio album from the acclaimed NYC-based hip-hop producer and beatmaker Blockhead, originally released in 2004.
Initially building a rep via his close association with fellow New Yorker and rapper Aesop Rock, and releasing via El P’s cult underground hip-hop label Definitive Jux, it was perhaps inevitable that Blockhead would explore solo instrumental production.
The beats on ‘Music By Cavelight’ explore moodier tones and textures with lush instrumentation underpinned by trademark tough drums.
This is a record that establishes its own emotional space and holds it from start to finish, establishing Blockhead as a major player in the so-called trip-hop movement alongside the likes of DJ Shadow, RJD2, DJ Krush and Kid Koala.
4LP pressed on marbled forest green 140g vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve. This 20th anniversary edition includes two bonus discs featuring classic Aesop Rock instrumentals and never-before released ‘Lost Files’ from 1999-2003. Digital download card included.
For fans of DJ Shadow, RJD2, Mr. Scruff, Amon Tobin, The Avalanches.
TRACKLISTING:
‘Music By Cavelight’:
1. Hello Popartz
2. You've Got Maelstrom
3. Carnivores Unite
4. Sunday Seance
5. A Better Place
6. Road Rage Breakdown
7. Triptych Pt. 1 & 2
8. Triptych Pt. 3
9. Jet Son
10. Music By Cavelight
11. Breathe and Start
12. Bullfight in Ireland
11. Insomniac Olympics
Aesop Rock Instrumentals:
1. Daylight
2. Nightlight
3. 11:35
4. Maintenance
5. Forest Crunk
Lost Files ‘99-‘03:
1. Beef & Brocs
2. Uplifting Corn
3. Need A Tissue
4. Okay Alright
5. Dead Or Alive
6. Checkers
7. Marvelous
8. Graveyard Hunt
9. Another Time
10. Dreamtime
11. Organic Beef
12. Spy Games
13. Bloop Bloop
14. Happy Baby
15. P's Joint
16. Space Disco
17. Summertime
18. Hawkeye
19. Sing Along
