{"id":5496,"date":"2012-06-08T05:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2012-06-08T05:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:51:38","slug":"elusive-illumination-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=5496","title":{"rendered":"Elusive: Illumination Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4259289686-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4259289686-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4259289686-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4259289686-1.jpg 350w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4259289686-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/4259289686-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Part space age funk, and part trill wave renaissance, this release is just as purple as grape soda. You can hear the lo-fi swing off the SP-404 throughout the tape. <strong>Elusive<\/strong> got that slow motion west coast beach cruiser shit to sip your 40 ounces to. <em>&#8220;ILLumination Knock&#8221;<\/em> definitely got verbatim to add to the low end theory. From 2000 beyond\u2026 this isn&#8217;t boom bap, but it preserves its essence in spirit. It&#8217;s next level. Don&#8217;t blow your speakers out from the bass on this record. If the phantom of the opera played synthesizer chords and had a steady diet of kush and orange juice\u2026 it might sound something like this. It&#8217;s like a brass monkey with a twist of technotroniks to it. It&#8217;s slow enough to be screwed down with promethazine &#038; codeine, but it&#8217;s energetic enough to jog to. Shiiit&#8230; I could even picture Prince singing over some of these breaks just as easily as I could see Biz Markie ripping through 16&#8217;s on &#8217;em. This is early morning summer shit. Blast this on your way to the do-over, or champagne brunch at the Hilton. Bump this when you&#8217;re leaving the after-party as the sun is rising over the eastern horizon. This is what Apollo gets his wake and bake on to, with a chronic omelette and a bowl of raisin bran with two scoops of sugar in it. It&#8217;s like Roy Ayers in the digital age, playing space invaders and tetris. Don&#8217;t sleep on this shit right here.<\/p>\n<p>You can cuff a bitch to<em> &#8220;Heaven&#8221;<\/em> and get all snuggly and cuddly up in that cutty. <em>&#8220;Close Your Eyes&#8221;<\/em> is chopped up with some De La Soul vocal samples sprinkled in it. &#8220;Ginger Snap&#8221; got a funky ass Bootsy Collins twang to it\u2026 Other stand out cuts include: <em>&#8220;Pure Imagination&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;Mid Nite Sun.&#8221;<\/em> The EP is only 7 tracks deep, and each cut packs heat like a police officer. Every instrumental got its own little taste to accompany the bouquet of freshness. Make sure you go cop this with the quickness at <a href=\"http:\/\/elusive.bandcamp.com\/album\/illumination-knock\">elusive.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; you know ya man&#8217;s Drop Jewelz.<br \/>\n@ragged_scrolls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part space age funk, and part trill wave renaissance, this release is just as purple as grape soda. You can hear the lo-fi swing off the SP-404 throughout the tape. Elusive got that slow motion west coast beach cruiser shit to sip your 40 ounces to. &#8220;ILLumination Knock&#8221; definitely got verbatim to add to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}