well, i can't say i've heard anything quite like this before, which appears to be a live drummer doing some kind of combination of hip-hop & jazz fusion. you're going to tell me about j dilla & flying lotus, but this isn't like that.
it doesn't really fall in either genre; this isn't a mashup. it's inherently zappaesque, and that is probably the dominant influence, but through some kind of obtuse reliance on his shaggs side. it often came out via george duke, but don't think this is like thundercat - this is weird and the reason it's weird is because it is fully embracing the tonality of hiphop, which is...atonal in a naive way. it's like jazz, in a sense, but in the most simplest way conceivable.
so, if you could take these really unmusical melodies you get in hiphop (often as programmed into a drum or bass machine), and kind of orchestrate them, which includes applying them to the vocal parts, and then layer them over a freeform drummer that's doing improvisational syncopation...
i've never heard anything like this, and i listen to a lot of music, as you can see. maybe some zappa/duke compositions, but it's post-zappa in the sense that the tonality he's pulling from is. if zappa/duke did a hip-hop record? of course zappa would have released some hip-hop records if he lived long enough.
is it compelling?
i'm not sure, yet. that might take a few years to figure out...
it would have been an early show on sunday the 29th but has of course been cancelled. i doubt i'd have gone. but, i am intrigued.
