As foreshadowed a month or so ago, Oh No has released his latest LP on the Stones Throw label, the awesometastically titled Dr. No’s Ethiopium. It’s an interesting album – 18 songs totaling only just over half an hour of music. Only three of the album’s tracks break the 2 minute mark (and those, only barely). It’s a format that fits Oh No’s style perfectly; he’s a beatmaker, not a songwriter. Dr. No’s Ethiopium serves almost as a sampler platter for rappers. It’s a catalogue of you-could-rap-over-this teasers that are begging to find their way onto Mos Def albums as backing tracks. It’s not that they’re not good on their own, but if you doubled the length and dropped some flow on top, they’d be fire.
Two of my favorites from the record invoke Oh No’s typical Middle Eastern samples really well and maintain a pretty cool feel throughout. When Oh No captures that feeling, there’s nobody better.
Oh No – The Pain (YSI) (filesavr)
Oh No – Melody Mix (YSI) (filesavr)
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