Cook Classics – Good Things Come (2007) June 21, 2009
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Take the philosophy behind Hidden Beach’s Unwrapped series, subtract the cheese, sprinkle a little Dilla, and you have Good Things Come.
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Cook Classics has worked with Diamond D, Chali2na, Amanda Diva and a host of other artists and sites including VIMBY.com, Uponthingz.com, and Zappos.com. Despite these credits, a quick look at the Los Angeles producer’s Myspace blog shows that he’s certainly more interested in making music than in selling himself. Case in point, his 2007 instrumental mixtape, Good Things Come, which sounds like what Bob James must have dreamed the first night he heard The Blueprint.
What’s most interesting about Good Things Come is the seamless blend of live instrumentation and samples, using a current-day production mentality to fill the gaps in between the Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Take the philosophy behind Hidden Beach’s Unwrapped series, subtract the cheese, sprinkle a little Dilla, and you have Good Things Come. By no means though, is this mix completely derivative. Cook Classics puts a lot of aural sounds in the mix that flesh things out and make the music more visual, such as the birds on “Always Unique” and what sounds like a starship damage siren in “Blueberry Swing”. These touches make the sound very much his own, as do the occasional left-turns a beat makes away from where you think it’s going, as happens a couple of times on “The Other Woman.”
I put Good Things Come to both major album tests: The Car Test and The Headphones Test. Only the most promising of artists can pass both. Cook Classics laughed at both. The high end is worked beautifully by Joel Van Dijk on guitar, with bass handled by Van Dijk, Joe Gonzales and Shiben Bhattacharya, along with Cook on samples, drums, etc.
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