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my early pick for album of the yearhttp://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/
Quote from: theswo on April 19, 2010, 11:56:54 PMmy early pick for album of the yearhttp://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/
Quote from: asava on April 20, 2010, 12:03:56 AMQuote from: theswo on April 19, 2010, 11:56:54 PMmy early pick for album of the yearhttp://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/ gtfoomf. james murphy is amazing
in the end, EMAW will always win.
The Internet has been flooded with tributes to Keith Elam in the last week, but none matches the sad and stellar eulogy conceived by his partner in Gang Starr. Joined by Big Shug, Guru’s nephew Justin Elam, and others, Primo unleashes poisonous darts at Solar, rare material, and a combination of fury and testament that makes the whole situation seem that much more tragic. From the revelation that Guru spent his last days alone, dirty and unwashed in a sterile hospital surrounded only by the sounds of a respirator, to a discussion of his pre-Gang Starr days as a school teacher, to dropping some of the greatest music recorded over the last 20 years, the mix is essential for any fan of the group.As a bonus of sorts, I’m also posting “Borough Check,” from Digable Planet’s criminally unsung Blowout Comb. In the wake of his death, Guru’s Boston roots have received significant mention. But for most of his career, the fact that he wasn’t from Brooklyn was something of a secret to all but hard-core hip-hop fans. His performance on “Borough Check,” epitomizes the adage that it ain’t where you’re from, but where you’re at. Like a significant chunk of great rap music. Gang Starr’s music was firmly rooted in a sense of place. Guru may have been raised in Red Sox country, but no one epitomized the spirit and sound of New York like Gang Star. During my most monomaniacal Gang Starr phase, I’d never been to the Big Apple, but thanks to Guru I felt like I knew every corner store bodega, stick up kid in the shadows, and train car rumbling beneath the borough.
There Is Love In You by Chris Martins January 26, 2010 Over the course of a truly inspired career, London’s Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, has remained ahead of the curve, sidestepping obsolescence by folding new strains of sound into his already rich jazz/hip-hop/folk base. Last year’s Ringer EP found Hebden reveling in the hypnotic, developing 10-minute songs that ditched the dissonance of 2005’s Everything Ecstatic in favor of calmer waters and subtler effects. There Is Love In You, his first proper album in five years, is smoother still, and to great effect—if this isn’t the best Four Tet record yet, it’s certainly a fresh face for Hebden. These songs make no bones about their rhythmic inspiration. Most are four-on-the-floor, built atop recurring samples, but only the single, “Love Cry,” outwardly indulges in Ibiza-flavored house. (Even then, it’s under a dark cloud of dubstep digitalia.) Instead, Hebden does his contemporaries in The Field one better by using repetition as the beginning of the experiment, rather than its final resting place, as if thinking, “The music’s going to move in circles; now, how to interrupt those perfect curves?”Each song is an exercise in craftsmanship, with the crystalline opener “Angel Echoes” patiently coming into focus, “Circling” starting over halfway through to rebuild with a new set of sounds, and “Sing” finding its pulse in a curious mix of Nintendo glitch and tined instruments—African thumb piano, an open Rhodes organ. Each unfolds into the next gracefully, until “She Just Likes To Fight,” one of the album’s shorter songs at five minutes, closes There Is Love In You. Sleepy as this final song is, it’s the record’s most surprising, beginning with a club beat, then morphing into live post-rock punctuated by hand-smacked percussion. It’s further proof that Hebden is incapable of phoning it in, and that he has plenty more tricks up his sleeve for the coming years.
For you dubstep lovers:Burial & Four Tet - Moth
definitely clams tallnesssys-the fact that he is taller than even clams. his humor (mostly when he's being mean because it's over people). his living circumstances. stevedave-he owns this board. nothing else. i really just hate him to the core.
Quote from: Rick Daris on May 07, 2010, 01:19:18 AMdefinitely clams tallnesssys-the fact that he is taller than even clams. his humor (mostly when he's being mean because it's over people). his living circumstances. stevedave-he owns this board. nothing else. i really just hate him to the core.you may have put this in the wrong thread? but i agree.
gave a listen to the new one by "The National" and its pretty tough to hate on. I've never liked em before, but this album has a pretty good thing going on.
Just got tickets for Tool at Red Rocks. Row 14.
Quote from: ew2x4 on May 15, 2010, 01:08:49 PMJust got tickets for Tool at Red Rocks. Row 14. lolz.
