In a 2015 FADER story about the rise of Brainfeeder, the Los Angeles-based label that revered electronic music producer Flying Lotus founded in 2008, beloved saxophonist Kamasi Washington points out that hip-hop and L.A.’s late-2000s beat scene — a loose genre-ifying of L.A.-created experimental music rooted in electronic and hip-hop — both have roots in his genre, jazz. “It’s coming from the same place, the musical rebellious nature of it,” he said.
華盛頓的看法簡潔地定義了 Brainfeeder 的魅力。最初,Flying Lotus、其他節拍場景製作人 Teebs 和 Samiyam,以及摯友 Adam Stover 創建了 Brainfeeder,以展示洛杉磯最優秀的熱愛爵士樂的電子藝術家的音樂——尤其是那些對嘻哈的音樂比其歌詞更感興趣的藝術家——如今這個唱片公司已成為全球有影響力的品牌。Brainfeeder 是一個藝術家強大的集合,他們的音樂即使偶爾偏向不穩定、搖搖欲墜的合成形式,仍然閃耀著爵士樂器、音調和和弦進行,至今已經與器樂嘻哈及其相關流派緊密相連,已有十年。
\n透過查看 Brainfeeder X 的曲目列表—作為慶祝十周年的 4XLP 盒裝專輯,其包含了未發佈和經典的歌曲,其展現了從誕生以來這個標籤所提倡的無序、挑戰性、驚人的電子音樂的巨大廣度。為了慶祝 Brainfeeder 在音樂創作上的風險承擔和難以界定的貢獻,以下是這個標籤十部最佳的黑膠唱片,按時間順序排列。
Max Freedman is a music writer with bylines in FACT, Paste, Bandcamp, Under the Radar, FLOOD and more. Outside music, he really likes trying any chocolate-based desserts he's offered, telling people that Six Feet Under is worth making the time for five seasons of 12-13 hour-long episodes, and riding public transit routes he hasn’t previously taken.