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DJ Cam - Love Junkee (J Dilla Remix)
I feel like DJ Cam has been around forever. I first heard his stuff back in my College Radio days (yo, WRBC, what's up?), before people were calling the kind of music he makes "chillout" or "downtempo" - there wasn't really a name for it, it was just part of the spectrum of electronic music. His first album, Underground Vibes was what really got me hooked - it was originally released by Street Jazz Records, associated with Cam's own Inflamable Records, back in the mid-90s and was then re-released, with a bunch of other tracks from his other early releases, by Shadow Records here in the US. This record, along side some other stuff like early UNKLE, ...Endtroducing, and other Mo Wax releases, was the gateway-album for my entry into instrumental hip-hop stuff.
I have since kind of moved away from a lot of this style of music - have you looked at the "chillout" section of a music store lately? Jesus, is it ever awful. BUT, there are still producers out there who are constantly pushing things forward, like Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, Piano Overlord, Savath & Savalas, etc. etc.), and on both the instrumental, and vocal, hop-hop side, DJ Cam has kept it current, and has kept putting out records, featuring instrumental cuts and vocal cuts with rappers from the US, France and beyond.
Now, onto this remix - J Dilla, AKA Jay Dee, is one of the best, if not the best, sample-based production heads around - I always put him in the same class as Madlib and RjD2. His beats are so deep and so damn funky, they just make me crazy! Remember "The Light" by Common? That's a Jay Dee beat. D'Angeleo's Voodoo? Jay Dee production. Remember the first Slum Village album? Jay Dee on the beat and the mic. So yeah, he is pretty much straight dope, and this remix of the Cam track is nothing but dope too - the drums are so hollow, the hand-claps so perfect sounding, the bassline so dark and thick like molasses - perfection.
The track comes off Cam's newest release, Revisited By, features remixes by Kenny Dope, Thievery Corporation, Kid Loco, DJ Premier, Dj Vadim, and French-house producers Bob Sinclair and Demon, among others - its a good little collection that spans a number of Cam's albums in its scope. Buy it from Amazon, download it from iTunes, or purchase it from your favorite local indie retailer.