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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Chicago-based Damon Locks features samples and contributions by Ralph Darden (aka DJ Major Taylor), Krista Franklin, Ben LaMar Gay, and Macie Stewart.
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- Record Label: International Anthem
- Genre(s): Experimental, Jazz, Spoken Word, Poetry
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Feb 26, 2025List of Demands is both archival and of the present -- engrossing and energizing, to be blasted from every boombox.
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The WireFeb 26, 2025The music is smooth, the message is simple and the demands aren’t easy, but they’re vital. [Mar 2025, p.51]
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MojoFeb 26, 2025Born from Locks' work with prison inmates, the likes of Distance are intricately funky collages, not a million miles away from recent tracks by Billy Woods. [Apr 2025, p.84]
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Record CollectorMar 24, 2025Perhaps the strongest work yet from a unique talent. [Apr 2025, p.102]
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Feb 26, 2025Locks lets the past speak by keeping the grit and the grain in his samples, conjuring the dust of the archives. Like Madlib, another jazz-influenced samplerist, he leaves the seams in his loops and builds meta-rhythms from the clicks of his edit points.