Domi & JD Beck

Not Tight

Domi & JD Beck - Not Tight

DOMi & JD BECK’s music finds both humor and greatness in harmonic complexity, rhythmic shiftiness, and speed. Their earlier viral Madvillainy tribute sets Madlib’s “Meat Grinder” at about 200 BPM. Naturally, their album abruptly adopts and ditches tempos, toys with time signatures, and sneaks extra beats into bridges. They perform as if racing, with winking breaks and pivots, but NOT TiGHT is also more composed, featuring a handful of pop structures and moments of pretty restraint. It features the likes of Thundercat, whose deadpan funk is their closest antecedent, Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Mac DeMarco, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and .Paak himself. They didn’t want the record to feel like jams. “People were telling us you gotta record a live album, do it like the old jazz greats,” JD says. “We don’t want a snapshot of what we do to be our art. We want something built. We wanted to do something new.”

Hip Hop Jazz
LP Blue note: B003590801