Spencer Doran - Puzzles (2006)
Press Release:
I found out about this young californian producer while trying to identify the first hidden song on the last track (titled "Momentary outro") of Sadat X's Black October album. It's a remix of the originally DJ Spinna-produced cut "God is back". So today I don't know why I made some effort and decided to find out more infos about this cat and couldn't even find a myspace page. I just found some infos mainly on japanese websites about what he released so far on the Female Fun label I think. For some reason all he did was only distributed in Japan. That sucks doesn't it ? Thanks to the power of the internet and social networking I was able to find his first album Puzzles and I'm just finishing to listen to it. It's a very good instrumental Hip Hop album filled with dope breaks and samples with an ounce of experimentation. Fans of cats like Shin-Ski, Fat Jon or Lark Chillout will surely love it. If anybody was able to put his/her hands on this 12'' get at me.
Bob(s) Thoughts:
The Japanese recordings are not on Female Fun, they're on Easel, a Japan-only label. You're right, it's a shame he hasn't found American distro for the Easel recordings.
Spencer resisted MySpace for a long time, but finally set one up a couple of months ago:
http://www.myspace.com/cloakspdx
He's currently living in Portland, Ore. and plays there under the name Cloaks -- you can hear some new music he's working on on MySpace -- he also DJs at a couple of clubs there.
He's done some different - less hip-hop-ish - recordings in a project called RV Paintings with some of the Starving Weirdos:
http://www.rootstrata.com/release/RS-22
http://tinyurl.com/mljg39
BTW, I keep close track of what he's up to because he's my son.
Track list:
01.First of All
02.Light (Our Time)
03.Hungry Air
04.Parks
05.Hip Hoperation/Plateau
06.Rest
07.Jumper/Everybody
08.Montage 01:42
09.Turn it Up/Form of Art
10.Fresh Breath
11.Wreckage
12.End of the Night
13.Sunday
14.4 Beats [bonus track]
15.Galaxy [bonus track
Tracks Below:
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http://rapidshare.com/files/246387053/Spencer_Doran_-_Puzzles__Easel_Music_EASLI-0001__2006_.rar
The Japanese recordings are not on Female Fun, they're on Easel, a Japan-only label. You're right, it's a shame he hasn't found American distro for the Easel recordings.
Spencer resisted MySpace for a long time, but finally set one up a couple of months ago:
http://www.myspace.com/cloakspdx
He's currently living in Portland, Ore. and plays there under the name Cloaks -- you can hear some new music he's working on on MySpace -- he also DJs at a couple of clubs there.
He's done some different - less hip-hop-ish - recordings in a project called RV Paintings with some of the Starving Weirdos:
http://www.rootstrata.com/release/RS-22
http://tinyurl.com/mljg39
BTW, I keep close track of what he's up to because he's my son.
Thanks for great info Bob, i'll post your message on topic. Anytime you feel the need to add anything for Spencer, let us know! We will post it!
dude you stole my post !
press release ? ha ha are you serious ? does it read like a press release to you ?
anyway I'm not mad because Bob eventually saw this entry for some reason instead of mine and commented giving some infos. So thank you Bob and thank you too blogger thief ! ha ha ha
Thought I'd drop in here with a Spencer/Cloaks update. Spencer and Ryan (Cloaks is currently a duo) flew down from Portland to SF on Friday to play a gig at Grace Cathedral called EpicoDisco http://episcodisco.com/
Spencer has also joined another Portland band called Operative - they were one of the top ten "best new bands" chosen by readers of Willamette Week, Portland's alt. weekly.
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