Track Listing

1. Bona Fide Funk - Brand New Heavies & Main Source
2. It's Getting Hectic - Brand New Heavies & Gang Starr
3. Who Makes The Loot - Brand New Heavies & Grand Puba
4. Wake Me When I'm Dead - Brand New Heavies & Masta Ace
5. Jump 'n' Move - Brand New Heavies & Jamalski
6. Death Threat - Brand New Heavies & Kool G Rap
7. State Of Yo - Brand New Heavies & Black Sheep
8. Do What I Gotta Do - Brand New Heavies & Ed OG
9. Whatgabouthat - Brand New Heavies & Tiger
10. Soul Flower - Brand New Heavies & The Pharcyde

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25633 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

CD Description
The Brand New Heavies collaborate with a stylistic assortment of rappers on their second album, but the jazzy soul sound of HEAVY RHYME EXPERIENCE, which is live rather than sampled, is all their own. The Heavy trio of Simon Bartholomew, Andrew Levy and Jan Kincaid, who came up through London's acid-jazz underground, is a rock-solid core with a natural affinity for rhythms that twist and turn. The Heavies move easily from the rubbery, pogoing dancehall of "Jump N' Move", which features Jamalski, to a mellow vibe over which Guru throws down looser rhymes on "It's Gettin Hectic". Main Source rides a slow groove deep into the pocket of "Bonafide Funk", on which horns lazily fade out at the end of every other measure. The Heavies are equally capable of laying down a noir-ish groove, as they do to match Kool G. Rap's menacing rhymeson "Death Threat". We eagerly await Volume 2.

Customer Reviews

an unlikely triumph...
This album is GREAT. There's no two ways about that...whatever you may think about the Brand New Heavies' subsequent output - which I would have to describe as increasingly mainstream coffee-table orientated pop/jazz "lite" (so is it any wonder I'm not a music journalist?)-, this album is one of the finest live hip-hop albums ever made. For a start the band are on fine form, delivering solid yet smooth instrumentation and beats to create really fresh tracks for their host of guest emcees. An what a line up. Main Source, Pharcyde (who went on to do a different version of Soulflower on their classic debut album), Grand Puba, Kool G Rap, Guru...but there are no standout highlights on this album becuse every track is brilliant. I'm convinced you could play this to a pop fan, a dance fan, a jazz fan, hip-hop...reggae...ska...soul/funk, whatever type of music fan and they would like it. Except for someone who only ever listens to black metal or gabba, but that would be their problem. Classic album, and like the amazon review above says, Vol.2 would be welcomed.