We're Still Here (now)... a documentary about nobody
Check out this great documentary on the making of the new De La Soul album ...and the Anonymous Nobody.
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De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody
It has been eleven years sine Dave, Maseo and Posdnous blessed us with an album and the world is a very different place to what it was when they released the Grind Date in 2004. As a way of allowing the Plugs complete freedom this album was funded via Kickstarter with De La offering a wide range of rewards for fans who backed their 8th studio album. The creative process behind this was project was handled entirely by De La allowing them to take total control of the growth of this project. The approach is unique certainly to De La and possibly the genre itself. The funds gathered from the Kickstarter process was used to hire a strong group of talented musicians, The Rhythm Roots Allstars and the group embarked on months of jam sessions that were recorded and then sampled as opposed to the traditional Hip Hop route that the group had followed in the past. De La recorded over two hundred hours of music with a collective of LA based...