Spencer Doran - Styles (2008)
Tracklist
01.It Ain't No Puzzle
02.One Two Three
03.No Mountain
04.I Thought You Knew
05.Darling
06.Dollar Signs
07.4 Beats [ Bonus Track ]
08.Stacks
09.23 ( Extended Disco Dub Mix )
10.Listen
11.Wildcard
12.Explosion
13.Too Young
14.Thank You [ Bonus Track ]
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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
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