Jel

Greenball 6

8
8/10
Brandon Backhaus | August 19, 2015

I make music. People always tell me I'm on some early Anticon. I always take that as a compliment whether that's what they meant or not. Jel is a founding member of Anticon and if how much I like this record is any indication, I hope I STILL sound like Anticon

Among other thrones in Valhalla, Jel is, along with Doseone, the Notwist and throngs of other mother fuckers, also part of the incredible 13 & God. 

Greenball 6 is the latest installment in Jel's beat tape series. I'm not exactly sure if it's the sixth actual installment in the series, as I'm pretty sure in my library there's a Greenball 3.5. But you get the idea. 

Greenball 6 is the soundtrack to the base jumps I haven't ever done because I'm a husky gentleman and a father and nobody wants to read about a fat dad dying because he jumped from a building of his own free will. Greenball 6 is the sound of my nightmares when I like them. 

Jel's scattered and frenetic changes are a perfect substitute for my ADD medication but instead of turning me into a emotionless zombie person it makes me into a distractobot super star. I just made coffee, clipped my toenails, Febreezed my living room, AND put away ALL the utensils all without losing focus and yelling at my racist Aunts on Facebook. 

I want Jel to play my next wedding. Don't worry the one after that I'll get Weezer. We'll all be desperate enough by then. 

I once saw Jel's set on the same lineup as Busdriver at the Satellite with a girl I don't go there with anymore and it struck me that THAT would be a dope tape. I mean Busdriver already employs Kenny Segal and Jel and Segal could be related. You know white people look all the same anyway. 

I want Greenball 6 and Kutmah's BLK/SMR to play Super Smash Brothers against one another. Winner gets to flick the loser's body part of their choice. I always go with nose because it isn't anybody's first choice (nipples, ears, genitalia), it hurts like a mother fucker, and it seems particularly sadistic. If you find yourself nodding in agreement or you just follow the logic, get this record.