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Track Listing
1. Geek Down - (with Busta Rhymes)
2. E=MC2 - (with Common)
3. Love Jones
4. Love - (with Pharoahe Monch)
5. Baby - (with Madlib/Guilty Simpson)
6. So Far to Go - (with Common/D'Angelo)
7. Jungle Love - (with MED/Guilty Simpson)
8. Over the Breaks
9. Body Movin' - (with J-Rocc/Karriem Riggins)
10. Dime Piece - (remix, with Dwele)
11. Love Movin' - (with Black Thought)
12. Won't Do
Album Notes
Personnel include: J Dilla; D'Angelo , Dwele (vocals); Common, Madlib, Pharoahe Monch (rap vocals).
Recording information: 2006.
Industry Reviews
[The album] commemorates his musical genius by juxtaposing lush loops with formidable flows.
His scattered styles are woven together seamlessly....SHINING brims with clear-cut and fully resolved ideas.
THE SHINING's live instrumentation lends a relaxed R&B lilt that accentuates the human warmth Yancey brought to every project.
[T]he most astonishing thing about THE SHINING isn't so much its bright and celebratory tone as its modesty....Its elegiac tone is profoundly affecting and you can feel the silence when the music stops.
His warm, intimate style is highlighted throughout, especially on 'So Far To Go,' a gorgeous ballad featuring floating coos from fellow enigmatic genius D'Angelo. -- Grade: A-
Ranked #35 in Spin's The 40 Best Albums of 2006 -- [I]t's a remarkably cohesive, entrancing farewell.
3 stars out of 5 -- [The] album sports the trademark soul loops, crackling drums, and underwater ambience of his best past work...
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [L]ush and layered: 'So Far to Go' could be a classic soul ballad....Dilla uses background hiss, vocal effects and the stark, hushed movie clips to inject a sense of foreboding.
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