Cut Chemist, a fellow turntable frat member, is also a former Jurassic 5er and has chops as a member of Ozomatli, a Latin groove band. His "The Garden/Storm" CD [PRO-CDR-101844] are pseudo-breaks inside an often funky groove and are worth your kindest attentions.
Track one, "The Garden" is very radio airplay-friendly with its mysteriously funky and slightly familiar groove. It also features the unknown female on vocals who riffs in Latin tongues. This one is a keeper. These same beats are reprised in a shorter version on track four in a big bass machine sound which brought Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That" hit of yesteryear or even Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" to my mind.
Of course if you have a lush garden, then there must be a friendly altitude and an occasional storm, and this short sample disc provides both elements. You've got"What's the Altitude" (track two) which begins like a "Mr. Magic Supa Supa Blast," which is really '80s and almost punky funk, fun and kind of quirky.
Then the next featured track "Storm" is spun off of early Hip-Hop and '80s sample feel. It ends cold-chillin' for real. Finally track five is the instrumental of "Storm," a boogie-break bridge usable as interlude music for us DJs while we dig in da crates for your next floor-filler.
As I was unable to find more usable 411 about Cut Chemist from either www.warnerbrosrecords.com or www.cutchemist.com (which takes much too long to load), I have to yet again revert to the 'nothing really new under the sun' file on this one. While it is nice to briefly groove to, for my purposes here, I bless with three-and-a-half stars.
