P Vine (2023)
Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit about hip hop. In the late 80s and early 90s hip hop ruled my musical life. During this often called 'Golden Era' I discovered so much incredible music. As I am slowly replacing the CDs I've had for thirty plus years with vinyl copies, I'm going to talk about some albums that had a really important impact on me during some very formative years.
The Main Source album Breakin' Atoms isn't one that I listened to back in the 90s, but was an album I picked up later and fell in love with. It was the only album released by the original trio with the group's 1994 follow up Fuck What You Think missing Large Professor. That's a pretty big missing piece, though I do think that second Main Source album is pretty good. Still, you had to wonder what the second album could have been with Large Professor. Oh wait, that would be this album The Science.
The tracks on this album were originally meant to be part of the second Main Source album, but were ultimately shelved when Large Pro left the group. 30 years later, P Vine records in Japan got a hold of the tracks and have released them for the first time. The songs are unsurprisingly excellent, with that perfect early 90s production style that I have always loved. Large Professor's production skills were upper echelon back then, and the tracks on this album prove that this would have ranked with any of the heavy hitters at the time. If you dig Breakin' Atoms, there's no way you don't dig this one as well.
The only negative for me is that this feels incomplete still, and I'd have to guess it is. There's only nine actual songs on it, and that include two versions of "Time" and "Fakin' The Funk." There's a lot of spoken interludes that fill out the track count, but don't really add much to the album. Really, this feels like half an album from the early 90s, not a full one. That's not to say that the songs on here aren't great, they are. But selfishly I just wish there were more songs on it.
Main Source - The Science:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_u1Fl3jaNuxVRx5H5uo5g_dMQNm_rlnY
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