Aquemini

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ATLiens debuted at number two on the billboard top 100, and sold nearly 350,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. Vinyl Me, Please is also offering a bundle which features Outkast’s Southernplaya… and Stankonia, VMP’s June 2019 Hip-Hop and October 2020 Essentials Record of the Month, respectively, available HERE for purchase.

Listening to this record, all my usual gripes about music being dead or over in a morass of retroism are quelled; an album that looks backwards to move forward, or moves forward while looking back. The player and the poet are on ten, trading bars about spirituality, race, drugs, poverty, ‘Lac grills and trapping. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.Released as the follow-up to the duo's 1996 album AT Liens, Aquemini expands on the previous record's outer space-inspired compositions by incorporating live instrumentation. However, the two innovative MCs break new ground with Aquemini, their third album, not to reclaim their reign of the dirty South, but to establish their mark in the universal scheme of hip-hop.

NPR summed up its impact best by offering “ Aquemini was just the lead-up in terms of what Outkast was capable of becoming.Songs such as the seven-minute SpottieOttieDopaliscious that feature live instruments and poetic lyrics are Outkast at their best. this album is fantastic it sounds like an album that came out this year, it doesnt sound like it was released in 1998 at all. More ambitious and hook driven then their debut album, 2000's Stankonia is a trippy sort of technopsychedelic funk.

Legend George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic)assists on Synthesizer where GC spurts up that madgenius "Conceived under the influence of toxic wasted doctors/Computer bugging and debugging devices and vice versa, various viruses/Performing with laser light precision and verbal incision/For a linguistic ballistic lobotomy mind f-ing you of psycho sodomy/Of the medulla oblongata exit your mind down your spine and out your behind"! Outkast employed a large number of musicians for the album, who frequently entered and exited the Atlanta studio throughout the recording process and had a major influence on the writing development of the album’s songs. The commercial success of AT Liens allowed for more creative freedom for the group, which led to the members self-producing the majority of the tracks. The carefully-pressed, 180-gram vinyl is the definitive version of their 1998 classic, Aquemini, for audiophiles and casual listeners alike, providing a superior sound experience with unprecedented sonic clarity. Aquemini is a perfect example of just that as this album is progressive, emotive and full of musical exploration.On their third album, Outkast steer the soulful boom-bap of their first two records further south, helping to usher the nascent country-fried trap sound of the dirty south into the mainstream. With their first album, Outkast created Southern hip-hop, and with their second album, they further defined it.