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house shoes - let it go instrumentals - tres records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop - Instrumentals

1. Let It Go (The Beginning)
2. Empire / Get Down
3. GoodFellas To Bad Boys / Excursions
4. Dirt / Bad Ass
5. Time / Nowhere To Run
6. Crazy / BahBahBah
7. Last Breath / Pimp Shit
8. Keep On / 'Til Infinity
9. Sweet / Noodles
10. So Different / Moody
11. Everything (Modern Family) / Without You
12. Sunrise / Love
13. Trouble / Slaves
14. Nails / Broken
15. Castles / My Brother
16. Cry Now / Gone
17. Roller Coaster feat. Fat Albert Einstein
18. Empire Reprise feat. Sam Beaubien of Will Sessions

It feels wrong, though, to call Let It Go a ‘debut’ record because it doesn’t sound like a first-try. Official debut, or not, House Shoes is not new. He released the now treasure-hunted Jay Dee Unreleased EP (1996), and Phat Kat’s classic Dedication to the Suckers (1999) on his own imprint.

This instrumental release allows listeners to immerse themselves in the claps, snares, kicks, and soul-filled samples that House Shoes plates for Let It Go (all the nuances that might be overlooked next to the features). Shoes delivers an album that sound like an album (and not a mixtape) – no small feat in today’s music world. He blends the songs, and interludes into a sequence that sounds like they all belong to something bigger than their time stamp and signature. Individually, the songs are strong; soaked in that necksnapping, gritty-drummed, trouble-water-soul-sampled thing that makes hip hop magnetic. To dissect the album into its parts
would miss the point, though.