Title: The Philadelphia Experiment
Year/Genre/City: 2001, Jazz / Hip-Hop (Collaboration), Philadelphia, PA
Matrix #: N93042
Condition: VG+

Cultural Facts:

[Supergroup Setup]: It’s a one-off collision project built around Uri Caine and Christian McBride—two Philly-raised jazz lifers—pulling DJ Logic into the core lineup instead of treating turntables like a guest gimmick.

[Turntable Cred]: [Turntable Cred] DJ Logic was one of the early players to make “DJ as improviser” feel legitimate in jazz spaces, showing up with real bands rather than staying in a producer-only lane.

[Label Ecology]: [Label Ecology] The album is tied to Ropeadope’s early-2000s mission of packaging cross-genre sessions as serious records—an indie infrastructure move that gave this kind of hybrid project a home.