Volta Masters featuring Clever “Just In Love”
Volta Masters "Change"
The Japan-based Volta Masters is so smooth! The Picked up their album Change a while ago. They use very well-known samples and flip them into dope loungy, jazzy, hip-hop grooves. I could listen to this album for days. Highlights on the album are the above-mentioned “Just In Love” (using a sample that Common used on “Resurrection”), “Chronicle” (using a sample from Slick Rick’s “Da Art of Storytellin’”), “Dream” (using a sample from Debarge’s “Stay With Me”), “Mr. Lawrence” and “I Like It (P.O.H. Remix)”. Pretty much the album is an awesome listen. Highly recommended. I plan to pick up their other stuff.
Volta Masters “Inochi No Namae (Radio Mix)”
Just lettin’ y’all hipsters know.
-STAN
Love their debut self-titled album, which came out in 2007. Get it if you haven’t yet. It’s been awhile since I got to listen to this but I received a tweet from a friend about them and it re-opened my love for this trip-hop, downtempo band. Like a past love you thought was gone and out of your life but you see them again on the street somewhere and it just brings back memories of that relationship. That’s how it is for me right now, though I never lost the love. I just forgot amongst all the music I’ve come to hear the past year and a half.
