I'm fairly sure that when I die and go to heaven, heaven will be a funky place, and it will sound a lot like Pete Rock. When his first all-instrumental release Petestrumentals came out in 2001, I played it so many times I wore out the MP3s. I love everything he touches. Because everything he touches is so deeply sweet. Released just last week on CD: The Surviving Elements, a new collection of downbeat instrumentals derived from the same classic soul sources that fueled his 2004 release Soul Survivor 2. Am digging this mightily. Snip from the Amazon description: "Like Petestrumentals, The Surviving Elements is a testament to Pete Rock's love of the groove; a homage to a craft endangered by saturation, sample clearance legislation and pop crossover appropriation."
Link to album info. What's up with Pete Rock's website? It appears to be geb0rken. That's alright — in funk heaven, there are no websites. Just grooves.
