Liquid Crystal

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From the inner jacket:

The Liquid Crystal Project is a figment of J. Rawls imagination.

For a long time, I have had this vision of a different type of jazz and hip-hop fusion.  I like to call this version, Jazz-hop, because it is jazzy with all the elements of hip-hop inside it.  It's most evident in the drums!  The boom-bap of hip-hop from (sic) is present.  Put those two together and it's so right!

This is something for the thirty-something cats that yearn for a more mature music.

We grew up on hip-hop and live for the boom-bap, but we don't really have any tolerance for the nonsense most rappers are talking about today.  This is for the hip-hop connoisseur that can appreciate good hip-hop merged with a touch of jazz.

I would like to welcome you to my imagination, jazzhop;

THE LIQUID CRYSTAL PROJECT!

This is an album made for the cd format.  It's a great listen from beginning to end, mature hip-hop, spring music that makes the need for getting up to change album sides annoying and regrettable.  In that way it is reminiscent of his Essence of Soul release.  Both feature warm, expansive, soulful, jazz influenced hip-hop, but LCP feels much looser, more jazzy, if you will.

J Rawls
Liquid Crystal Project
Side B

A Tribute to Dilla
Remember When
Simple Game Plan


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