Dr. No’s Ethiopium

This is the followup to his album Dr. No's Oxperiment, created with Turkish & Lebanese psych samples. “Heavy” from Dr. No's Oxperiment was used in the video game Skate 2's Soundtrack and Mos Def's “Supermagic” on his album The Ecstatic.

　　Is a bitching name for an album. It’s the latest offering from master hip-hop instrumentalist Oh No, brother of master hip-hop instrumentalist Madlib. Talented family. Oh No currently seems to be on a mission to put every other crate-digging hip-hop producer to shame by pumping out a sequence of tremendously niche but still wildly accessible concept albums on the mighty Stones Throw imprint. First up was Exodus Into Unknown Rhythms, an album composed entirely out of samples from Galt McDermot’s back catalogue. He was the guy who wrote HAIR. The Musical. Natch. This was followed up by Dr No’s Oxperiment, a tour through Mediterranean and Turkish psych rock. Of course. And now we have Dr No’s Ethiopium, a series of riffs on Ethiopian funk from the 60s and 70s. The man is nothing if not diverse.