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Before passing away on the 31st of October, 2020, Dumile had been a young virtuoso rapper welcomed with open arms by the music industry, then an outcast that sneaked back onto the scene through the back door after years of wandering (now masked), the go-to-guy of independent rap during the 2000s and then some kind of Indie messiah as dubbed by Thom Yorke and Flying Lotus.

Qobuz tells you the story of 10 records which have left their mark on this golden era of French producers.

Known for his extraordinary basswork for the likes of FlyLo, Erykah Badu and Shafiq Husayn, including the bass on Cosmogrammas MmmHmm, Thundercat, real name Stephen Burner, has now turned attention to his own solo album The Golden Age of Apocalypse.

Moving away from conservative production and pedagogical methods of playing, synonymous with the labels ethos, the album instead engages more so with traditional jazz than hip-hop.

Although a jazzhip-hop hybrid, or influence, is resolute throughout traditionalold-school hip-hop the artist manages to engage modern production with fluid improvisation, making for a distinctly different interpretation of traditional hip-hopjazz.

Is it Love is the first track that grabs the attention, a laidback sultry jam with obvious influence from the likes of Duke and Ayers.

The album moves in a regimented fashion, on a predictable course, you know where the percussion is going to hit and the crescendos are going to build.

However, it does with an elegance of improvisation, of live music, on a distinctly intangible discourse.

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