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“[The studio] was in a car wash. Or an adjacent building where they stored the soap,” says Wilbur Niles, clearing up details through bursts of laughter. “I mean, we recorded at night, after the car wash closed. You couldn’t do anything on a Saturday morning when cars were being washed. I remember the concrete ceiling … Rinse and Rediscover: How Wilbur Niles Turned Car Wash Jazz-Funk Into a Collector’s Item Read More » The post Rinse and Rediscover: How Wilbur Niles Turned Car Wash J...

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by Charles Mudede • Feb 25, 2021 at 4:45 pm Class is now in session with Dr. Daudi Abe.... Courtesy Daudi Abe Before MOHAIs Legacy of Seattle Hiphop exhibit opened and did its best to mock my contributions to local hiphop journalism, I worked closely with Dr. Daudi Abe, Seattles only certified hiphop scholar (he lectures at Seattle College), and Larry Mizell, former Stranger columnist and current KEXP DJ, to build a body of knowledge that could explai...

Daniel Boczarski / Redferns via Getty Images Sometimes, rumors are all we have to go by. The one about a new Madlib record, Sound Ancestors, started in late October: The British producer Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, whos spent the last few months of quarantine releasing new music and excavating old tapes as part of audio-visual mixes on his YouTube page, mentioned that he and Madlib, the Los Angeles beatmaker born Otis Jackson, Jr., had been working on an album together. Confi...