Various Artists: Daisy Age / Various – VINYL LP

Title: Daisy Age / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Ace Records Uk
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 029667010016
Genre: Rap/Hip Hop
Release Date: 2019-09-06
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM – IMPORT

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2019 collection. It wasn’t really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that permeated pop, R&B and hip hop at the turn of the ’90s. Playfulness and good humor were central to de la Soul’s 1989 debut album, 3 Feet High And Rising, which would go on to cast a long, multi-colored shadow over rap. In Britain, the timing for 3 Feet High And Rising couldn’t have been better. The acid house explosion of 1988 would lead to a radical breaking down of musical barriers in 1989, and it’s associated look – loose clothing, dayglo colors, smiley faces – chimed with the positivity of de la Soul and rising New York rap acts the Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest, all at the heart of a growing collective called Native Tongues. The Native Tongues’ charismatic, summery aura quickly spread west to the Bay Area’s similarly-minded Hieroglyphics crew (Del Tha Funky Homosapien’s ‘Mistadobalina’); Canada’s Dream Warriors (‘My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style’) used 3 Feet High”s color palette and borrowed Count Basie and Quincy Jones riffs; Naughty By Nature (OPP) were mentored by Native Tongues heroine Queen Latifah, while Londoner Monie Love was also adopted by the collective, resulting in her Grammy-nominated ‘It’s A Shame (My Sister)’. It wasn’t built to last, but the Daisy Age reintroduced Multiplication Rock, bubble writing and the gently psychedelic into the charts. It was a brief, but extraordinarily warm and optimistic moment. The songs on this collection promised that the ’90s would be a lot more easy-going than the ’80s.

Tracks:
1.1 A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays – De La Soul Featuring Q-Tip ; Vinia Mojica
1.2 Bonita Applebum – A Tribe Called Quest
1.3 Sunshine Men – The Freestyle Fellowship
1.4 Mistadobalina – Del Tha Funkeé Homosapien
1.5 What’s Up Doc? (Can We Rock?) (K-Cut’s Fat Trac Remix) – Fu-Schnickens With Shaquille O’neal (Shaq-Fu)
1.6 Doowutchyalike – Digital Underground
1.7 Peachfuzz – Kmd
1.8 Doin’ Our Own Dang – Jungle Brothers
1.9 Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children – Queen Latifah Featuring De La Soul
1.10 O.P.P. – Naughty By Nature
2.1 Where I’m From – Digable Planets
2.2 It’s A Shame (My Sister) – Monie Love Featuring True Image
2.3 K Sera Sera – Justin Warfield
2.4 All For One – Brand Nubian
2.5 Case Of The P.T.A. – Leaders Of The New School
2.6 My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style (Album Version) – Dream Warriors
2.7 The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) – Black Sheep
2.8 Age Ain’t Nothin’ But A # – Chi-Ali
2.9 We Run Things (It’s Like Dat) – Da Bush Babees
2.10 You’re Not Coming Home (Mase’s Funkay Recall Mix) – Groove Garden