On 6/26/07, J.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
damm why is everybody so defensive today? i don't care how long you've been down with it, i just didn't think it was your style.
i actually love club music, its not something i listen to constantly, but i always bump it in the ride when im in bmore and i like to get down to it from time to time. it reminds me of a cross between UK hardcore and dance mania, combining 2 of my loves.
i have never heard of rod lee, i'm curious...if spank and ayres are biting his style that is unfortunate they are getting all the attention. i get what you mean now. i don't know about the politics, i have just been using my ears.
i mean, i dont know how much time youve spent in bmore, but one of the great things about it is club music. they rock it on mainstream hiphop stations on friday nights right inbetween new mainstream hiphop tracks. theyll drop craziness like a track that samples the Imperial March from star wars with an amen break under it, really raw and goofy tracked out breakbeat stuff. theyve been doing it for a minute, check out this from 98: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=622234 "real dj's buy two". i love that sh*t. check this out: http://www.discogs.com/release/635557 havent heard this mix, but thats the kind of thing that bmore is about. a friend of mine from pgh makes some club trax: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Phinesse
but ayres doesn't pretend to be anything he's not, his bio lays out his history, learning to mix in college dorm rooms and playing in brooklyn dives, and he even gives props to darshan from metro area and jamie hodge (born under a rhyming planet) in his bio...
he may be a really cool guy and be down with lots of good music, but i feel like he is misrepresenting a local music for ironic means.
y'know, none of my black friends seem to care that spank rock are 1/2 white...i guess their stuff is kinda stupid/trashy so you need a sense of humor and good taste in bad taste or something like that...
it doesnt matter that theyre white, if they were representing real club music. but theyre taking the most superficial bits about it and turning it into a joke. you know how i feel about this kind of thing.
>the vans track is ill, what else have they done? lots. look for lil uno's and boo ski's solo stuff too..."uno" by lil uno is like doug e fresh 1986 except from the bay 2007, same instrumentation, massive reverbed 808 beats
sounds nice.
i'm chilling too. i get tired of jazzy sounds in hiphop. i like jazz tho, especially rudy johnson and blackjazz stuff lately.
ive been buying up Inner City and Prestige stuff recently, but really ive just been buying and playing all kinds of jazz stuff recently. Azimuth's first brazil only album has been on constant repeat for me recently, what a brilliant record.
it is just so played out and familiar in hiphop, there's not much imagination in that sound left..with some exceptions...i really wanted to like the new lifesavas but nahhh. it's all good background music i guess, but so is lots of music. maybe i'll come back around to it now that it's summer
lifesavas are kinda "eh" for me. its disappointing, i can remember when so much of the solesides/quannum stuff was killer, now theyve largely fallen off. really, ive just been going back to all kinds of older hiphop stuff in the jazzy and laid back soul vein, ive been rocking slum village "fantastic vol 1", camp lo "uptown saturday night", pharcyde "labcabincalifornia", tribe "midnight marauders" "low end theory", nas "illmatic", etc. granted there isnt alot of newer stuff in that vein that is all that great, but the old stuff is so timelessly brilliant that im not that worried about it. it is very good for the summertime as well! its nice to be in a hiphop mood again, its been a while for me.....
mostly that's what i'm about too..i mean very little music really strikes a perfect balance for me, upfront and deep at the same time, it's usually tilted one way or the other. but i like all sorts of music, and hot summertime nights in nc demand party music SOMEtimes.
cant disagree with that. tom
