Quakers - Quakers (35-member hip-hop collective produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow, 7Stu7, Katalyst)

Just kind of stumbled upon this today while looking at the stonesthrow site. Never heard of it before. There is so much interesting music coming out that it's hard to stay caught up.

Quakers - Quakers

Samples on the stonesthrow page: http://stonesthrow.c...quakers/quakers

From http://stonesthrow.com/quakers :

"Release date: March 27, 2012

Quakers is a hip-hop collective boasting 35 members which orbits around a core of three producers: Fuzzface, 7-Stu-7 and Katalyst.

Fuzzface is better known as Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, a long-time Stones Throw supporter in touch with Peanut Butter Wolf since championing the Jaylib album back in 2004. 7-Stu-7 is Portishead’s engineer and in-house producer at Invada Records in the UK. Katalyst is one of the most respected producers in Australia and a partner in Invada Records.

Disillusioned with much of the hip-hop around them, the like-minded producers set out to create the type of rap record they’d want to listen to. That meant gathering one of the most varied arrays of talent ever seen on a hip-hop record. Rather than just sending beats to the hottest names of the moment, the producers sought out genuine collaborators, regardless of whether they were legendary or simply stumbled upon around the world wide web. Invitations were sent out to golden era legends such as Prince Po and The Pharcyde’s Booty Brown, indie rap titans such as Dead Prez and Phat Kat, and of course some of StonesThrow’s finest: Aloe Blacc, Guilty Simpson, MED and newest signings Jonwayne and Dave Dub all make memorable contributions. There are also some lesser known talents present: band-favorite Coin Locker Kid, Lyric Jones, Estee Nack & more hold it down with their more celebrated peers.

Yet for all the vocal talent, it’s often Quakers’ stellar production that takes center stage, tying together the albums 40+ tracks into a cohesive whole. Heavy beats come thick and fast, from the horn-heavy stomp of “Fitta Happier” to the devastating synthesizer abuse of “Belly of the Beast” and beyond.

Quakers music first appeared in Banksy’s 2011 film Exit Through The Gift Shop and, in case you’re wondering, the name comes from ‘earthquake’. They’re here to shake the foundations. "

Samples are sounding nice, plus there's a hell of a lot of talent on this album. Looking forward to it, but I'm a bit worried about how they're going to pack 40 tracks into 80 mins. One the one hand if it's cohesive as a whole this could be amazing, on the other it could just sound like a pile of half finished ideas that finish without going anywhere.

I've got very high hopes for this project. This could be a real milestone

There's a song already out and I think it's fairly meh. The main sound in it is mixed kind of bad / or the original fidelity was really low. Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG7I9Qu6-Rw

fairly meh? is that sample from radiohead's national anthem?

hopefully this is down to shitty quality file but lots of the percussion seems totally lost in the mix. kind of disappointing.

  On 2/27/2012 at 7:41 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

is that sample from radiohead's national anthem?

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‘Fitta Happier’, a song which both references Radiohead with its title as well as samples a marching-band rendition of ‘The National Anthem’.

from here... http://afistfulofculture.com/2012/02/21/listen-portisheads-geoff-barrow-samples-radiohead-on-hip-hop-project-quakers/

aha thanks

another track. meh...

http://soundcloud.com/stonesthrow/quakers-smoke-feat-jonwayne

So the whole album is available to stream here. Gotta say after hearing the initial samples I was kinda underwhelmed, but as a whole it's a pretty decent album. Nothing exactly groundbreaking though, feels as though they've held themselves back a bit by trying to be nostalgic rather than creating something new.