Kaada – “Care”
I recently rediscovered Kaada’s debut masterpiece Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time and it immediately restored my faith in contemporary music, after a decade that ended with Nickelback as the top selling band, and the indie rock hype machine making stars out of a smattering of boring uninspired bands with clever names, 3 chords, and a lot of distortion. Kaada took the ideas of sample-based trip-hop pioneer DJ Shadow and combined them with sounds from the 50s-70s. The end result is an inspiring cinematic work—soulful, jazzy, and timeless.
On opening track, “Care,” Kaada creates a perfectly complimentary duet, and rides it over an unforgettable bassline. Part trip hop, part Morricone western, part soul, and part doo wop, among other things, it’s hard to imagine that it’s a creation of spliced bits and pieces.
Along with DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing, The Avalanches’ Since I Left You, and RJD2′s Deadringer, Kaada’s Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time should have been seen the foundation of the future of music. Unlike the current trend of mashup records that use many of the same creation techniques, these records have their own distinct sound separate from the songs used in the creation. Girl Talk is fun and all, but lacks the heart and soul found on Kaada’s Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time.