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''There Is Only Now'' is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group Souls of Mischief. The album was released on August 26, 2014, by Linear Labs. The album features guest appearances from Busta Rhymes, William Hart, Snoop Dogg and Scarub. ==Background== In a July 2013, interview on Hip-Hop Nation, the album's producer Adrian Younge announced the album, saying: "The next project is Adrian Younge Presents Souls of Mischief. That’s my next big thing and I’m super happy about that. It’s a project that if somebody misses the sounds of ''93 ’til Infinity'' meets ''The Low End Theory'' meets ''De La Soul Is Dead''. If somebody misses that kind of sound, they’ll be happy to hear this album because it goes back to that time, you know. Kind of like how the Ghostface album (Reasons To Die'' ) kind of went back to that time. And I love both styles of music back then, so I’m very, very excited."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adrian Younge Talks New Concept Album With Souls Of Mischief, Narrated By Ali Shaheed Muhammad )〕 He continued: "And it’s also a concept album too—Souls of Mischief almost gets killed by some dude that was just crazy and the whole album just starts off with this incident, and then it blossoms into these different stories that are a result of this volatile incident. And that’s basically what that album is about. It’s dope though. It’s really dope. As far as stylistically, it’s kind of like if Bob James and Herbie Hancock recorded with Q-Tip back in the day, you know what I’m saying. That’s the perspective on the album. I was with Ali Shaheed Muhammad yesterday showing him some of the stuff and he was totally getting it because he’s going to be the narrator on this album, like how RZA was sort of the narrator for Ghost (12 Reasons ), that’s what Shaheed’s going to be doing. It’s Native Tongues shit, you know what I’m saying, so that’s what I’m super psyched about. I mean it’s done now; I’m just touching stuff up. But it’s pretty much done. It’s going to be released in September."〔 In an August 2014 interview with PopMatters, he spoke about how he produced the album, saying: "You’re doing it over the course of an album, so you have to understand what the different moods are throughout the album and once you understand those points of progress within the story are you compositionally illustrate music that denotes that feeling. So there’s one part where everybody’s panicking—that song’s actually called “Panic Struck”—so I wanted to make something that feels kind of jarring and pervasive, in your face, temperamental. Then there’s a song about love so I want something that feels like love, there’s a song where there’s a finale closing out the whole story, the whole plot line. So I want to make it seem like a chase scene to the end. So it all depends on what’s going on because I’m a film composer first, so I like to approach my music cinematically."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=There Is Only Now: An Interview with Adrian Younge - PopMatters )〕 He spoke about if there were songs on the album that were difficult to produce, saying: "Yes, there was a lot of difficulty because I always try to outdo myself. So I set very high standards because I kind of want to be an exemplary example of who I should be as an artist. I always compare myself to what I did last, so I’ve got to try and beat what I did last I’m always upping my own bar. It’s one of those things that creates a lot of difficulty just for myself, but it’s the kind of difficulty I need to embrace because it makes me a better artist. And I do not want to be one of those artists that falls off later, I want to be one of those artists that is continually pushing the bar. But going back to certain songs on the album that were more difficult than others, I would say. There’s a song called “Miriam Got a Mickey” that was pretty difficult, there’s a song called “Ghetto Superhero” that wasn’t that easy. I mean there’s a lot of… it all ranges. A lot of it is just, you know everything I do is samples. It’s tape, analog, hardware, hand crafted music and soul. It’s not just creating a loop; every single thing has to be done by hand. A lot of it is just tedious."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「There Is Only Now」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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