You know Quintin Tarantino’s masterworks ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Inglorious Bastards’. If you don’t know what the f* I’m talking about, rent it, buy it, stream it, watch it. Seriously.
For all you bad motherfuckers familiar with the Tarantino phenomenon , this record is something to check out! On ‘Grindhouse Bastards’ Wick-it the Instigator mixes, mashes and blends all kind of different genres into one excellent free album, making it one hell of a trade.
Reservoir Dawgz
Right in the beginning of the album it’s clear what ‘The Instigator’ wants to show: combining humor and stuff that works, on the dancefloor or just on your iPod. Starting with Samuel L. Jackson quotes and catchy raplines (by Bun B and rapper Yelawolf) ‘Reservoir Dawgz’ is one of the best tracks on the album. Adding dubstep after the second break, Wick-it shows his knowledge of both hiphop and a wider range of electronic music.
Pulp Fiction Theme
In the ‘Pulp Fiction Theme’, Wick-it takes the sample of Dick Dale’s ‘Misirlou’ and uses it wisely: drumstep remix. While “everyone gets executed” at the end of the break, loud kicks contribute to making this remix a true beast on the dancefloor.
Stuntman Mics
(Unfortunately, imho) Wick-it changes style immediately in the fourth track with a slower hip-hop beat. Aesop introduces a kind of dreamy pop track with a quite simple bassline underneath it. This is characteristic for the whole album. Sometimes raw and based on bass and beats, sometimes slow and moody.
Look at Mexico now
Next up on this album is “Look at Mexico now”, the soundtrack of Tarantino’s ‘Death Proof’. You know the song of the lap-dance-scene? This is the one. This original track is produced by The Coasters and is called ‘Down in Mexico’. Wick-it mixes it down with a verse on Chris Brown’s ‘Look at me know’ by Busta Rhymes. (Also in there, samples of the Karmin take on the Chris Brown’s song.) It makes this mash-up even more powerful than the original record.
Bang Bang
Ofcourse Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Bang Bang’ can’t be skipped on this album. (Made famous by the Kill Bill movie and the Audio Bullys remix.) With the quotes of Uma Thurman in ‘Kill Bill’ the ‘Bang Bang’ track gets an unexpected laidback re-edit. In the end Notorious BIG shoots it down with his raps.
Even more reason to download the album: the samples from ‘Jackie Brown’ and the bassline in ‘What happened to you?’ are really catchy. We posted an other version of that bassline earlier on the blog, whoever knows it gets a free high five.
Long story short
Producer ‘Wick-It the Instigator’ takes some spoken parts of famous Tarantino movies and blends it with proper hiphop and rocking dubstep. Honestly, I think this is by far the best example (I know) of using movie-quotes in music. If you get your kicks out of pop culture references, this will be your orgasm. And the best part: it’s all for free. From panflutes to raw dubstep, Wick-it takes you through the world of Quintin Tarantino, without disappointing on a single track on his free album.
Personally I would change the order of tracks to get a better build up. The album feels like a random rollercoaster ride in the dark, you don’t know where it’s going. But notice that it isn’t the style of music that’s featured as a main theme, the quotes are. Wick-it takes you just there where you didn’t expect to go. Especially this is one of the reasons why we’ve got ‘Grindhouse Bastards’ on repeat for days now.
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