O.S.T. (album)
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| Studio album by People Under the Stairs | ||||
| Released | June 4, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2001-2002, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 76:14 | |||
| Label | Om Records | |||
| Producer | Thes One, Double K | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10) |
O.S.T. is the third album by the People Under the Stairs. The album was again produced in Thes One's home entirely by the duo, and it was finally released in June 2002 on Om Records. The album produced three singles, including "Acid Raindrops", one of the group's most successful songs and a constant staple at live shows.
During 2001, while on tour in Europe, Thes One and Double K had been utilizing their tour income and their Question... album profits to steadily amass a large supply of vinyl. The group would purchase rare and interesting records at local record stores in each city they would pass through, even going to far as to spend over $2,000 at a store in Stockholm, Sweden. Many of these records would form the basis for the sampling used in O.S.T.
In between tour dates, Thes One and Double K returned to Thes One's home in Los Angeles and create samples using this new-found material. Through the success on tour, they also came to terms with the criticism and indifference that they had been receiving from the local L.A. hip hop scene, and the new lyrics in their songs reflected their new-found life experience. Using the samples and the insight they had gained from touring, Thes One and Double K began piecing together their third album.
O.S.T. proved to be even more complex than the group's first albums, using a larger variety of samples (culled from vinyl collected all over the world), and the samples were pieced together in more intricate ways. For example, the track "Montego Bay" used over 20 minuscule sections of music from Jamaican tourist souvenir records, cut and reorganized seamlessly into a new rhythm. The group also used live instrumentation for the first time on a release by having musician and producer Headnodic (of the groups Crown City Rockers and The Mighty Underdogs) play electric bass on the album-ending "The Breakdown".
The album contains several dedications, both positive and negative. The "Suite For Beaver" was created, in true "jazz ode" style, as a dedication to Willie Hale (also known as "Little Beaver"), whose album Party Down was the source of the base samples in the "Suite". Thes One has stated that the album and the mellow party vibe theme hold a central place in the album's creation and the band's outlook ever since. The song "Tales of Kidd Drunkadelic" is also a reference to the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic by Funkadelic, one of Double K's favorite groups.
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