TSS features Dinner with the Thompsons at Check Other Outfitters
B-Boy Craig ,outperforming himself as usaual, had a chance to host a breaking performance by Dinner with the Thompsons. Hosted alongside Tommy Bumps at Check Other Outfitters in Houston TX, Dinner with the Thompsons blessed us with their first ever “Houston Performance”.
It was a great monday night, great friends, and great music!
Dinner at the Thomsospons cool funk breaks and hip hop riffs are sure to get the juices flowing at Check Other Outfitters, located in downtown Houston Tx. 
The duo’s bio includes:
Franco-US collaboration (don’t see many of them these days do you?) that is well deserving of your ear. Franco-American singer Lucille combines classic jazz vocals, poetry and spoken word story telling with Fablive’s hip hop production ethics that combines jazz soul and electro into a heady brew that someone like Peterson should make into a hugh success – this could be the next Portishead or Goldfrapp type crossover, without sounding anything like either of those acts. Its a great home listening experience that requires sunshine, headphones and a few ready rolled fat ones. Mastered by dave Cooley of Stones Throw fame too
Review by:
By John Healey on 6/4/11 in Album Reviews
Dinner at the Thompson’s – Off the Grid
Earth At Work: 2011
http://potholesinmyblog.com/dinner-at-the-thompsons-off-the-grid/
Dinner at the Thompson’s is no ordinary pairing. Cali-based singer Lucille Tee saw French DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist Fablive in concert, loved what she heard, went on stage to sing a few, and the rest is…well, you know. Now based out of France, Dinner at the Thompson’s have been recording and touring together for six years. Back with their sophomore effort, Off the Grid is a genre-hopping blend of jazzy hip-hop meets R&B infused funk (a few other genres, too) that will have anyone with a soul moving to the rhythm for the better part of the hour long album.
From the Dilla-esque sampling of “Rise Up” to the nostalgia drenched funk of “Different Beings” Fablive effortlessly molds a diverse and cohesive backdrop for Tee’s vocals to shine. Tee proves herself as versatile a singer as Fablive is a producer. One minute it’s the bouncing funk in “It All Began”, the next it’s the smooth crooning of “I Can Do Anything”. One of few guests on the album is Stones-Throw rapper Guilty Simpson to bring the heavy hip-hop swagger on album highlight “Rice ‘n’ Beans”.
Off the Grid is not a revolution of sound. It is, however, an exquisitely crafted combination of past and present from Fablive brought together effortlessly by Tee’s fine vocals.
This album was my first encounter with Dinner at the Thompson’s, and with no expectations on what to hear, I was damn near blown-away. Had I not been assigned this album, chances are this album would have flown under my radar. Whatever you do, don’t sleep.
