(Nu Jazz, Future Jazz, Neo-Soul) [LP] [12"] [24/192] [24/96] Thundercat - Коллекция - 2011-2020 (5 альбомов), FLAC (tracks)

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foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-13 19:34:07
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Analyzed: Thundercat / The Golden Age of Apocalypse
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -7.74 dB -18.94 dB 0:23 01-HooooooO
DR9 -5.86 dB -16.25 dB 2:57 02-Daylight
DR10 -4.99 dB -15.88 dB 2:15 03-Fleer Ultra
DR11 -5.78 dB -17.88 dB 5:36 04-Is It Love?
DR8 -5.08 dB -15.26 dB 3:37 05-For Love I Come
DR9 -5.33 dB -14.70 dB 3:34 06-It Really Doesn't Matter to You
DR11 -3.54 dB -16.21 dB 3:45 07-Jamboree
DR9 -4.88 dB -16.54 dB 3:45 08-Boat Cruise
DR10 -5.34 dB -16.49 dB 2:19 09-Seasons
DR11 -6.44 dB -20.35 dB 3:04 10-Golden Boy
DR11 -5.24 dB -16.93 dB 2:06 11-Walkin'
DR9 -4.81 dB -16.21 dB 2:05 12-Mystery Machine (The Golden Age of Apocalypse)
DR10 -5.23 dB -17.29 dB 2:02 13-Return to the Journey
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4667 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner has been on a peculiar path. For a moment during the early 2000s, he was in No Curfew, a boy band successful enough to be included on German hits compilations beside Destiny's Child and Gorillaz. He then joined his brother Ron, a Grammy-winning drummer, in the long-running skatepunk band Suicidal Tendencies. A few years later, while still in ST, Thundercat initiated a long-term interface with the black avant-garde network; J*Davey's version of Frank Zappa's "Dirty Love," Erykah Badu's "The Cell," Sa-Ra's "Love Czars," Shafiq Husayn's "Cheeba," and Bilal's "Levels," among dozens of other cuts, all benefited greatly from his knotty, tremulous basslines. Thundercat can also be heard throughout Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma. That album's dreamy, astral "MmmHmm," featuring not just his bass but his becalming falsetto, was a precursor to the simultaneously offhanded and life-affirming sound of The Golden Age of Apocalypse, his first album. Though Thundercat was born in the mid-'80s, he's clearly inspired by spaced-out jazz fusion and R&B from the previous decade, with the spirit of George Duke's six MPS albums (1973-1976) almost always present. Even without the introduction's use of "For Love (I Come Your Friend)" and a later cover of that very song, it would be detectable. In fact, Bruner sounds like he's attempting to clone Duke's blissful and easygoing voice, yet he's more skilled and never strains. He calls upon many of the musicians he has helped in the recent past, including everyone listed above, as well as additional members of the connected Mochilla, Brainfeeder, and Plug Research families -- Eric Coleman, Miguel-Atwood Ferguson, and Austin Peralta, among others. Several cuts are instrumental workouts, unpredictable and flagrantly noodle-y. Others venture into tranquil folk-soul and soft jazz-pop; for all the animated instrumental flexing on display, it's those atmospheric and simpler songs that move the most. The best of all is "Walkin'," half-Todd Rundgren, half-Melodies-era Jan Hammer Group -- a casual, rubbery, heart-on-sleeve ditty with Badu doubling Bruner during the "la-la-la" chorus. This is unequivocally recommended for anyone who owns anything featuring Thundercat, enjoys '70s bass-playing wizzes (Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Alphonso Johnson, Paul Jackson), and who has ever spent half an hour listening to the first minute of the Crusaders' "Cosmic Reign."

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foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-13 20:45:54
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Analyzed: Thundercat / Apocalypse
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -1.85 dB -13.51 dB 3:04 01-Tenfold
DR10 -1.88 dB -14.07 dB 3:24 02-Heartbreaks + Setbacks
DR10 -1.38 dB -12.81 dB 2:38 03-The Life Aquatic
DR10 -2.42 dB -13.74 dB 2:56 04-Special Stage
DR9 -2.41 dB -13.52 dB 2:33 05-Tron Song
DR9 -2.14 dB -13.78 dB 2:18 06-Seven
DR11 -2.69 dB -15.44 dB 3:47 07-Oh Sheit It's X
DR9 -2.92 dB -12.83 dB 4:41 08-Without You
DR10 -3.78 dB -15.75 dB 4:54 09-Lotus and the Jondy
DR11 -2.77 dB -16.45 dB 2:21 10-Evangelion
DR10 -2.44 dB -14.93 dB 0:56 11-We'll Die
DR10 -1.99 dB -17.14 dB 6:36 12-A Message for Austin/Praise the Lord/Enter the Void
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4618 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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One of the many charms of Thundercat's first album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, was the manner in which the supernaturally skilled bassist seemed to wing his way through songwriting -- stumbling upon ideas, going with the flow, goofing off -- and come up with brilliance. On his sharper, more focused second album, he works through anguish -- the loss of close friend and musical partner Austin Peralta -- with some staggeringly emotive and tightly composed content. There's less room for instrumentals and noodling, but even those moments are purposeful. The half-ebullient, half-turbulent, wholly absorbing "The Life Aquatic" adds some timely lightness after the heavy-hearted opening combination of "Tenfold" and "Heartbreaks + Setbacks." The odd-signatured "Seven," part of which resembles one of those wild-card Yes interludes, is an alternately showy and frivolous set-up for the delirious dancefloor funk jam "Oh Sheit It's X." For all the darkness and depth, one of the most moving songs here is "Tron Song," a falsetto ode to his cat and the greatest example of his fearlessness. Animal-loving touring musicians finally have a song that speaks directly to them: "I always come back to you/Don't you worry about me." Even the melodic ditties that skirt smooth soul and soft rock supply more resonance here; the sweetly forlorn "Without You" comes across like a missing Twennynine-era Don Blackman cut. The driving "Lotus and the Jondy," like early-2000s Radiohead with humor and fusion chops, is a fantastical adventure with moody riffing. Executive producer Flying Lotus and Peralta evidently are present as characters in the story, "Straight trippin' in the darkness, straight-up seein' goblins," while Thundercat's older brother Ronald is present in material/musical form to finish it with a supreme drum freak-out. Denser and fathoms deeper, this is some kind of leap.

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foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-13 21:05:36
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Analyzed: Thundercat / Drunk
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -8.28 dB -20.34 dB 0:39 01-Rabbot Ho
DR11 -3.10 dB -15.64 dB 1:42 02-Captain Stupido
DR10 -4.28 dB -16.64 dB 2:16 03-Uh Uh
DR10 -3.50 dB -17.15 dB 2:25 04-Bus in These Streets
DR11 -2.48 dB -14.96 dB 2:39 05-A Fan's Mail (Tron Song Suite II)
DR11 -3.70 dB -16.23 dB 2:59 06-Lava Lamp
DR10 -2.45 dB -15.83 dB 1:35 07-Jethro
DR11 -1.60 dB -15.38 dB 0:38 08-Day & Night
DR11 -1.58 dB -14.95 dB 3:35 09-Show You the Way
DR12 -2.06 dB -16.30 dB 3:19 10-Walk on By
DR10 -3.14 dB -14.72 dB 2:00 11-Blackkk
DR12 -2.20 dB -15.87 dB 2:25 12-Tokyo
DR11 -2.79 dB -16.16 dB 1:10 13-Jameel's Space Ride
DR12 -3.19 dB -17.77 dB 3:12 14-Friend Zone
DR11 -3.43 dB -17.05 dB 3:09 15-Them Changes
DR10 -3.73 dB -17.08 dB 2:11 16-Where I'm Going
DR12 -3.72 dB -16.96 dB 3:36 17-Drink Dat
DR11 -2.04 dB -16.81 dB 4:00 18-Inferno
DR11 -2.47 dB -15.29 dB 0:26 19-I Am Crazy
DR11 -2.55 dB -15.26 dB 1:15 20-3AM
DR12 -3.19 dB -17.04 dB 1:43 21-Drunk
DR12 -3.62 dB -17.79 dB 2:29 22-The Turn Down
DR9 -6.42 dB -18.46 dB 2:18 23-DUI
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Number of tracks: 23
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2721 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Between Apocalypse and Drunk, his second and third albums, bassist Stephen Bruner contributed to a slew of remarkable recordings by fellow Los Angeles dwellers -- Flying Lotus' You're Dead!, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and Untitled Unmastered, Kamasi Washington's The Epic, and Terrace Martin's Velvet Portraits among them. Several months before Bruner picked up a Grammy for "These Walls," off To Pimp a Butterfly, he issued an EP anchored by "Them Changes." His funkiest, sweetest, most vulnerable song, it reappears as the top highlight on Drunk, a fragmentary and scattered program relative to the Thundercat full-lengths that preceded it. Bruner is still fueled by numerous forms that immediately preceded his birth -- smooth soul, soft rock, jazz fusion, synth funk, new wave, all late '70s/early '80s -- and filters them through his soft-hearted, mischievous personality. He surrounds himself with a slightly different cast of old and newer associates, including the first three figures listed above, keyboardist Dennis Hamm, drummer Louis Cole, and producer Sounwave. For better and worse, there's a lot of foolishness occurring here. Bruner dreams about being a cat (replete with meowing background melody), pens a tribute to Japanese pop culture ("Just point me to the Pachinko machines"), and delivers a sarcastic jingle regarding social media fatigue ("I'm out here probably doing the most"). At times, the whimsicality sinks into middle school humor ("Captain Stupido") and misogyny ("Friend Zone"). Love and mortality remain Bruner's strongest subjects, placed on full display in terse but touching ballads like "Lava Lamp," "Jethro," and "3AM." In "Show You the Way," another bright spot, he swaps verses with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, two of his heroes, to swirling and balmy effect. Additional guests Kendrick, Pharrell, and Wiz Khalifa add to the star power, but the main attraction is Bruner's singular combination of tremulous yet fluid bass and aching falsetto.

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foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-13 21:47:59
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Analyzed: Thundercat + OG Ron C & The Chopstars / Drank
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -3.41 dB -18.03 dB 0:42 01-Rabbot Ho (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -2.23 dB -16.61 dB 5:54 02-Drink Dat (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -1.04 dB -16.08 dB 3:28 03-Lava Lamp (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -0.80 dB -13.78 dB 0:54 04-Weakstyle (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -0.68 dB -15.55 dB 4:36 05-Show You the Way (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR10 -0.89 dB -14.89 dB 1:36 06-Where I'm Going (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -0.99 dB -15.75 dB 2:59 07-Tokyo (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -1.56 dB -15.84 dB 2:20 08-Uh Uh (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -1.41 dB -16.23 dB 4:57 09-Inferno (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR14 -1.89 dB -17.68 dB 5:03 10-Them Changes (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR13 -1.45 dB -18.56 dB 1:06 11-I Am Crazy (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -2.55 dB -16.85 dB 2:04 12-3AM (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR13 -1.10 dB -16.91 dB 2:09 13-Jethro (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR14 -0.53 dB -15.95 dB 3:48 14-The Turn Down (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR14 -0.46 dB -16.81 dB 4:31 15-Walk on By (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR11 -0.86 dB -13.64 dB 0:25 16-Day & Night (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -2.53 dB -16.05 dB 3:18 17-A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II) (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR13 -2.34 dB -17.39 dB 1:37 18-Jameel’s Space Ride (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -2.00 dB -15.83 dB 3:01 19-Captain Stupido (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR14 -0.76 dB -16.80 dB 3:12 20-Friend Zone (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -1.22 dB -16.41 dB 3:07 21-Bus in These Streets (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR12 -1.13 dB -16.75 dB 2:50 22-DUI (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR11 -1.55 dB -16.29 dB 2:36 23-Blackkk (Chopnotslop Remix)
DR13 -0.99 dB -18.26 dB 2:20 24-Drunk (Chopnotslop Remix)
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Number of tracks: 24
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2713 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Thundercat's Drank gets the "Chopnotslop" treatment from Houston's OG Ron C and DJ Candlestick of the Chopstars, the pre-eminent collective dedicated to preserving and continuing the legacy of DJ Screw, catalyst of the chopped and screwed technique. Each one of the original album's 24 cuts is slowed to a stupefying extent with subtle turntablism tactics. They're presented re-sequenced as a continuous mix with humorous and liberally applied shout-outs and interjections like "Whatever you sippin', man, pour it up." As with the previous work executed by the Chopstars -- including remixes of albums by Drake, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, and even Little Dragon -- the effect is utilitarian for lethargic revelers and humorous for teetotalers. Most amusing is hearing Michael McDonald's guest appearance on "Show You the Way" changed from a maple syrup-like consistency to one resembling that of blackstrap molasses.

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foobar2000 1.6.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-13 22:11:09
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Analyzed: Thundercat / It Is What It Is
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -8.94 dB -21.21 dB 1:23 01-Lost in Space/Great Scott/22-26
DR9 -4.67 dB -16.36 dB 2:41 02-Innerstellar Love
DR10 -5.03 dB -16.73 dB 3:24 03-I Love Louis Cole
DR10 -5.28 dB -17.19 dB 3:09 04-Black Qualls
DR10 -4.81 dB -16.17 dB 2:12 05-Miguel's Happy Dance
DR9 -5.80 dB -15.53 dB 1:14 06-How Sway
DR10 -3.76 dB -15.23 dB 1:59 07-Funny Thing
DR11 -3.20 dB -15.77 dB 1:29 08-Overseas
DR10 -2.24 dB -13.89 dB 3:02 09-Dragonball Durag
DR9 -8.39 dB -20.63 dB 1:08 10-How I Feel
DR10 -5.04 dB -17.67 dB 2:52 11-King of the Hill
DR10 -3.22 dB -16.06 dB 3:14 12-Unrequited Love
DR13 -2.29 dB -16.67 dB 3:58 13-Fair Chance
DR12 -3.48 dB -18.20 dB 3:15 14-Existential Dread
DR10 -3.94 dB -19.07 dB 2:23 15-It Is What It Is
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4666 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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"It's been a while, but I'm down 'til I'm out and it is what it is 'til it ain't." So preached Mac Miller on 2018's Swimming. A month after the album was released, the beloved Miller died from an accidental overdose, compelling Thundercat, bassist and co-writer on the quoted track, to cope again with loss and mortality as he made the follow-up to Drunk. Those themes coursed through much of Thundercat's 2010s work -- most perceptibly on Apocalypse, recorded after the death of another close friend and collaborator, Austin Peralta -- and continue on his first LP of the 2020s, co-produced by trusty partner Flying Lotus. Thundercat is most open on "Fair Chance," flanked by fellow Miller comrades Ty Dolla $ign and Lil B, grieving in downcast falsetto, "So hard to get over it, I've tried to get under it/Stuck in between, it is what it is." The album's title is repeated across the variegated yet flowing sequence, utilized as either a mantra or verbal spackle, always in tribute. Just as moving is Thundercat's heart-in-throat salutation in the closing title track, briefly stated just before his bass intertwines with Pedro Martins' guitar to gorgeous effect. As on the earlier Thundercat LPs, outer space and homeboy escapades, comic courtship and elusive companionship, and philosophical insights also inform the material. In the churning "Innerstellar Love," featuring Kamasi Washington's blazing saxophone, Thundercat croons "Nothing is yours, nothing is mine/We all decay over time" like a tragic-romantic Roy Ayers. The surreal psych-funk Badbadnotgood meeting "King of the Hill," originally a Brainfeeder X highlight, falls snugly into place and functions as a cautionary flip side to the bobbing "Black Qualls," a conscientious ballers' anthem graced by Dayton funk demigod Steve Arrington. There are no throwaways or novelty tunes. The tender-rocking "Dragonball Durag" is full of humor but too thoughtfully written and endearing to be disregarded as either. "How Sway" is a warp-speed instrumental comprehended only by those who were raised on fusion records and Japanese video games, yet it's an ideal setup for the whomping revelry tale "Funny Thing." Cartoonishly puttering and seemingly off-the-dome, "Miguel's Happy Dance" provides heartfelt solace: "Dancin' away the pain, it's gonna be all right." That might be the paramount message here.