J-Dilla, Still Shining Documentary // Archive Slum Village Soundcheck footage!

Ok so its now February or "Dilla Month" as some heads like so say! so they'll no doubt gonna be a spike in J.Dilla blogs / podcasts / events and all sorts seeing as February marks both his birthday and the anniversary of his untimely passing; just remember if he's a favourite of yours (like he is for me) that his music is around all year for you to enjoy so dont just go crazy for 4 weeks a year! heh.

A couple new videos have surfaced of late; both of which are pretty interesting to Dilla fans, the first of which a 13 minute long collection of clips showing the original Slum Village line up (Jay Dee, T3, Baatin) circa 2000 preparing for their first live show in LA which involved Dilla DJ'ing using x2 MPC3000's and a discman! haa..

From an outsiders point of view there really isn't much going on and you could easily write it off as nothing to get exicted about; however there isn't a lot of candid Dilla, (or slum for that fact) footage. You may remember some behind the scenes Frank N Dank joints (showing Dilla's lab and the filming of the McNasty Filth video) but here seems a lot more natural and relaxed.

It's also dope as its a throwback to the original SV line up and to a time before playing up to the camera for Youtube existed...(case in point I dont think any of these dudes even acknowledge the camera for the 13 minutes of footage!)

Anyway the video shows the group rehearsing, going over some technicals, a bit of BS'ing and a last minute trip to radio shack for cables (heh I know them ones).


SLUM VILLAGE - SOUNDCHECK - DILLA PLAYING BEATS



*beat heads on some I HAVE TO KNOW THAT BEAT, wanna look out for Track 16 from Another Batch, the outrolude from "Its Like That" off Welcome To Detroit, Toshi / Nothing But Your Love (Jay Dee Remix)

next up the Still Shining Documentary from B.Kyle of Okayplayer.

He dropped the trailer to this earlier on in the week and like most music nerds im looking forward to peeping the behind the scenes stories retold by those who he worked closest with.

If my mind serves me right B.Kyle was actually putting together a DVD featurette for the Shining back when it dropped in '06, for whatever reason this bonus DVD never saw the light of day so its quite possible this has been in the works since then, its dropping on Feb 7th whether it'll be something to buy or a free stream is yet to be seen but I'll be checking it out for sure either way!


J.Dilla - Still Shining Documentary Trailer