The Audience's Listening To Cut Chemist

Cut Chemist - "The Garden"
Cut Chemist feat/ Edan, Mr. Lif - "Storm"
The Audience's Listening, album release date July 11, 2006

"They say you get as long as you need to make your first album, but the second one you get a year!" - Cut Chemist

According to Billboard Magazine, it took Cut Chemist one year to clear all samples -"sometimes you have to remind them what their song is"- used on The Audience's Listening (way clever album title). Chemist sacrificed his role with Jurassic 5 to concentrate -"it's easy for me to get distracted"- on an album that Warner Brothers and fans have anticipated for two years. Using resources and influnence like his name is Jerry Wexler, Chemist utilized 24-months to craft a barrel of songs and cut that barrel to a dozen songs that Warner Brothers will push in July.

If passport stamps were pussy Chemist would be a pimp, instead the cat is a globetrotting record collector -"I wanted it to be that way, to kind of give it a texture of, 'Hey, I go all over the world and buy records!'"- that put time in Brazil to create "The Garden," a song fueled by authentic Brazilian sounds. "The Garden" is a marked summer anthem that will get spins from alpha-hipsters to middle-aged wives. Beautiful vocals from Astrud Gilberto (note: Ear Fuzz tigercats, please tell me what A. Gilberto sample that was) sex up "The Garden." Fantastic arrangement page-marks Chemist as an elite member of the same people who have their names printed on Chemist's records.

The Documentary

B+ and Eric Coleman produce today's next producers (J Rocc, Babu, Nuts, Cut Chemist and Madlib) with time-stamped drummers (Paul Humphery, Derf Reklaw and James Gadson) to document a team of intelligent musicians. The video footage is from Brasilintime: Batucada Com Discos, a documentary that began in `02 and is coming out this summer. Look at the all-star team of Brasilintime.

"Light gay bossa nova." (This is the video link for Windows users)

"Storm" is electro-swayzee-rap to the max. Edan and Mr. Lif bring raw intelligent rap to "Storm" and Chemist's production is bound to make hipsters dance with their Cherrios. At 3:28 "Storm" is short and it's OK, because this jacked-up Jurassic 5 beat is like tight denim on Vivica Fox. "Storm" is vintage Chemist -the man who conitues to play Saturday nights at Hollywood's Star Shoes- and his keen production on "Storm" demonstrates Chemist's relevant time with Jurassic 5.

Tracklisting

These are the confirmed songs on The Audience's Listening:

1. Motivational Speaker
2. M 1st Big Break
3. The Lift
4. The Garden
5. Spat
6. What's The Altitude (feat. Hymnal)
7. Metrorail Thru Space
8. Storm (feat. Edan and Mr. Lif)
9. 2266 Cambridge
10. Spoon
11. A Peak In Time
12. The Audience Is Listening (Theme Song)

Release date: July 11, 2006

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