Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm Artist_Nami It’s sometimes hard to go

It’s sometimes hard to go back and speak to work that was made in the past

cleaned up the songwriter’s warped take on soft rock and brought it to a broader audience

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The opening track from this special collaborative EP from London-based artists TSVI and Loraine James says it all: ‘Gloom’

He left the band to release a series of solo records and later pioneered the genre of ambient music with his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm Artist_Nami It’s sometimes hard to goEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty first century. He wasn't known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D'Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of thirty two, and in his lifetime he never