With a routine narrative, the interval arrives with a beaten to death twist. The first half of Champion moves on a very predictable note, with no high moments, and debutant Vishwa is good in the football sequences but maintains the same expression for every situation, which is quite a worrying factor. The villain's character is cliched and doesn't terrify, and the rest of the cast including Vinod Sagar, Mirnalini Ravi, Sowmika do not get much scope to emote or make their presence felt. Narain provides good support with his subtle act as the coach who knows Jones' past, and Manoj K Bharathi in a key role is adequate and is aptly cast with both Vishwa and Manoj having similarities in looks. Stuck between football and revenge, what was Jones able to achieve is what champion is all about.ĭebutant Vishwa as the lead Jones has a perfect body language while exhibiting his football skills and his training for the role is visible in the game sequences, while his expressions and dialogue delivery fall flat in emotional scenes. However on his quest towards his passion, he also gets to know about the murder of his father, and vows to take revenge. Let's see what's in store in Champion.Ī North Madras boy Jones(Vishwa) is passionate about football, and aspires to excel in the game, and joins coach Santha (Narain), who guides him. With a fresh cast supported by Narain, the promos promised an interesting sports-action drama.
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The tracks floating around from the Madvillain sessions, a similar Stones Throw collaboration between MF Doom and Madlib, seem more promising both lyrically and musically, but in the end, Champion Sound is itself certainly no lightweight.Champion : A sports drama with revenge flavourĪfter giving a sports movie earlier this year with the Sasikumar starrer Kennedy Club, director Suseenthiran returns with his next movie Champion, yet again touching sports. Fortunately, slip-ups like these are few and far between.Ĭhampion Sound in theory is a remarkable proposition, and for the most part the Jaylib team deliver the ridiculous beats expected of them while, perhaps ironically, acknowledging in verse the album's lyrical shortcomings. The disjointed "React", while interesting, becomes grating before it finally closes out, and Madlib's initially promising revolver-like beat on "Strapped" is a similar headache. Lazy production, lame tropes like, "Everybody say I love/ That bullshit/ I like it/ I love it," and, "Everybody just gather 'round / 'Cause all we want to do/ Is get on down," and Kweli's incongruously deadpan delivery make this track pretty much unlistenable. If there were a scorecard for Champion Sound, Madlib would undoubtedly receive higher marks than J Dilla on both sides of the beat, but both far exceed the buffoonery of guest rapper Talib Kweli on "Raw Shit", the album's abysmal low-point. Madlib's muted trumpets on "The Official" recall Miles Davis' late 50s work with Gil Evans (particularly Miles Ahead or 1960's Sketches of Spain), and its understatement is answered in opposite by the fast-paced sampling, boastful string vamp and Philly soul-style horns of "The Mission". Pulling no punches, "The Red" packs a spooky piano vamp and female chorus sample into a characteristically minimal Jay Dee backbeat, over which Madlib throws out a host of shoutouts and the occasional Quasimoto-ism. Three "The" tracks- single "The Red", B-side "The Official", and above-mentioned "The Mission"- make for Champion Sound's best moments. "Strip Club" is the album's most amusing track, a quirky steel drum sample reminiscent of Super Mario 2 backing a brilliant dialogue between the duo in which Quasimoto plays a stripper offering deeper intimacy: "I can touch you and you can touch me."
Title-track "Champion Sound", also produced by Madlib, comes peppered with ample fuzz and an offbeat chorus of "Wah!" while orbiting a sultry female vocal sample.
Jay Dee and Madlib change places with each successive track, but their message- mostly that "Jay Dee and Madlib are collabin'," that they "are in this mothafucka," and "live bitches is what need"- rarely butterflies into much else.įortunately, the record's focus doesn't rest on its lyrics: Madlib-produced "McNasty Filth" assume's the role of party track and just kills, alternately flaunting organ and baritone sax drones before upshifting into some vaguely Prefusian cut-ups and a hi-hat's violent treble attacks. But call it a self-fulfilling prophecy: the lyrics are its Achilles' heel. As expected, Champion Sound is unquestionably one of the most exciting and inventive hip-hop productions this year: Jay Dee's characteristically bass-heavy breaks and Madlib's wonderfully off-kilter quasi-organic dutchery compliment each other perfectly, and their best moments here easily rank among their personal highs.
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