Have only just realised that Mos Def has officially changed his stage name to "Yasiin Bey". I have absolutely no idea why beyond y'know, pop stars.

Novelty:

Everything Slint is amazing so yes hvgirhagirjealghteih indeed.

Take Care Of My Cat is an amazing film.

poignant

g.man

Richard Hawley's 'Standing At The Sky's Edge' is already shaping up to be one of my albums of the year. A real improvement on 'Truelove's Gutter' (and I loved that).

I think that's awful.

Fuck an MBV then, fuck an MBV now.

I kind of like the detuning air-raid-siren guitars on To Here Knows When but that is literally it.

(Strictly, the Pumpkins owed them a handjob or several too.)

XTC_NRG_4_DARKRAVER wrote:

Is that from the Flight of the Navigator soundtrack.

She still is, but she was hot as baws back then

@ZMM. Progressive House done right



edit: Some dick's just ripped this off a mix comp. So it's mixed out of at 7 mins or something.

I went to see Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne live at The O2 last night. It was absolutely awesome and definitely way up there with the best gigs I've ever been to, if not the best. The energy in there last night was insane.

I really didn't get along with it. I'm not sure if what he's doing there is regional, is that an ATL sort of thing? But I just found most of it abrasive and annoying. Still, enjoyed track 3 (from memory) and Reagan.

Dabbled in a bucketload of hip hop over the last few days actually. Trying to do catch up since about 7-10 years ago when I used to know wtf was going on a bit.

Dabbled in commercial and less so stuff:

Wale's mixtape about nothing is awesome. His albums go down hill quickly.

J-Cole: Cole World, Rick Ross: Deeper than Rap, and Wale's two studio albums are all kinda interchangable in a way.

memo to newish commercial releases:

1. You don't need 18-20 tracks on your album.
2. Those tracks don't need to be 4 minutes and beyond.
3. I don't care if jay Z/kanye/nas/old school whoever gave you love/didn't give you love.
4. You aren't here to save hip hop.

The Blueprint really has ended up being the blueprint. I dunno, when you've got a relatively small selection of producers, all who have a thing that they do, and every album seems to have tracks by said producers, it can get very samey. There's the Just Blaze/kanye-esque intro track, lots of big drum fills, and epic choir/horns/strings. There's the couple of tracks with vocal hooks by john legend/cee-lo/that dude who did that lupe track/random auto tuned muppet. And a few other templates.

Perhaps that's why The Roots still actually sound coherant and interesting. They definitely have different sounds across different albums, but because they're a band, there's a common and original thread through them all.

Even Common's last one falls into a similar trap to the others mentioned above.

Of more underground stuff I got recommended:

Edan: can't get down with his voice, nor the old schoolish beats. Far from terrible, just not my thing.

OC and Apollo Brown: Trophies. Awesome. Very late 90s early 2000s semi underground, but just really good.

Roc Maciano: So 90s NY it's ridiculous. Dudes seem to love him, a little too 90s revisited for my liking.

After ODing on the hip hop, I have since listened to The Shins, Port of Sorrow, which is amaze. Also Bjork's last one. Which is also pretty awesome so far.

Currently blissed out on this. 

Had queued up Django Django for my ride to work today.