#969 J Dilla - The Shining Instrumental

Dilla's signature atmospherics and inventiveness are on display, but none of this quite pops on its own, coming across as waverey and indisctinct, more like the hangover than the high. The problem is that, while the man's beats are legendary, previous releases looped them just enough times to give you a taste, to let the groove sink in, and then moved on. Here they're stretched to full-track length, and without the verses that stretched them they hang baggy and uninspiring 2.5/5