Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Deluxe Edition) [CD] Aphex Twin - Classics-NAZAFRC0MS6B8 THE BOOK I READ (1976

THE BOOK I READ (1976 DEMO)

Frazey Ford's album confirms that a great unexplored talent for soul music lay just below the surface

Their first release with new singer Nicole Willerton adjusts their course into a more modern fairway

straight to tape

and lithograph

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Deluxe Edition) [CD] Aphex Twin - Classics-NAZAFRC0MS6B8 THE BOOK I READ (1976By 1994 the Beasties had settled into their cultural role as the grand arbiters of cool, and Ill Communication is pretty much a catalog of coolness: live funk, a bit of hardcore, ingenious samples of obscure records, keyboards by analogue master Money Mark, guest shots by Q Tip and Biz Markie, MCA's cop show metal number "Sabotage," and the inevitable cascade of witty old school rhymes. But it's also a surprisingly mature record from a band that had,