not rly.
um, this came out of nowhere & everything, as i really dont listen to this garbage, i mean GABBA anymore. for some reason it barely interests me, even if it's probably the most punk of all electronic genres [unless we're talking breakcore, but then again...*]. a whole lot of gabba is dancefloor compatible however at the same time it's really tough to dance to. it's loud, noisy, hoovers in your fucking ear, glitches everywhere but somehow you're still raving. this record isnt really like that at all. it's very breakcore, but at the same time the guy's throwing everything in there, certain parts are downtempo hip hop jamz that are perfect for horror movies. eventually it picks up, the jungle drums [amen breaks like it isnt anyones business] pop in & you're just jamming. that's when the bass kicks in & you're somewhere else, vibrating faster & harder than your mothers dildo.
top it all off with some samples of MCs or ironic pop music & you have this record in a nutshell. so i guess if you're looking for some really decent gabba/breakcore/jungle shit then hit up archive.org & look for Broken Beats by Gammenni Amenassi.
in other news, the human highways cd is really good for relaxing but not for playing GTA4.
THANKYOUGOODNIGHT.
*semi-useless tangent about how breakcore & gabba have learned to love each other & are now borrowing certain elements from either genre
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
YEAR OF THE DISAPPOINTMENT
the new The Faint cd is absolute garbage. i ended up listening to two tracks from it & then deleting it, it was that bad. at least the Islands cd had a couple good songs on it & i managed to get nearly all the way through before deleting it from my computer. the faint's new cd is just fucking unbearable. what the fuck happened? seriously? wet from birth was like one of my favorite indietronica records for the longest time, i didnt think they could go down in flames like they did. oh well, if you like shitty music then you'll LOVE the new faint cd. it's so bad i dont even remember what it's called. seriously, it's garbage. it'd be more entertaining if it were used as a frisbee or firewood.
in other news, i peeped The Sounds of Science by the Beastie Boys & it brought back quite a few fun memories of when i was a youth. truth be told, this was probably one of the first albums i ever bought. i still remember walking into strawberrys [later turned into an FYE], seeing it, buying it & immediately jamming the fuck out. i remember when i was a 'kid' there were a few songs i really didnt like at all, but going back to the album now i cant really find any of those songs, i like just about everything on this record. the beasties were/are still some of the best rappers alive. it's not like they're unbelievably fast or anything, but god damn they're clever. it's funny to think they started out as a hardcore band way back when, especially considering they're possibly the ONLY rap pioneers who are still recording/touring/alive.
some of my 'new' favorite songs on this album are songs i used to skip over just about every time they came on, funny to think about stuff like that. how musical taste progresses & changes with age. the beasties are some of the only musicians who've held up to my test of time. there's never been a time when i didnt like them & honestly, theres only a couple artists that i can say that for, most of which i've only known about for two or three years now, i've been listening to the beasties since i was like 12. it kinda makes me think about what the original beasties fans think, you know? like the people who were there from the beginning when they were a punk band & played short, fast & loud music, rather than their brand of punk-rap. either way, if you havent yet, get your hands on the sounds of science as i am convinced it will turn anyone who isnt a fan/hasnt heard them before into a fan.
on the other side of the globe we've got those wacky anarchists Chumbawamba with the Boy Bands have Won. first we'll talk about the title of this record. the full title is: The Boy Bands Have Won, And All The Copyists And The Tribute Bands And The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket And Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It To The Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To 'Guard' Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not To Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, And The Boy Bands Have Won.
yes, that's the full title of the new chumbawamba record. kinda makes you think a little now doesnt it? really now, when you hear chumbawamba mentioned most anyone will instantly think "I GET KNOCKED DOWN..etcetc ad nauseum" & be turned off to the idea of even trying to listen to anything else they've ever done. when i first heard tubthumper i remember thinking "wow, everything other than tubthumping has serious meaning behind it, these people are legit musicians" the truth is, that even tubthumping had meaning behind it, but due to certain laws or something the liner notes of the record were severely censored so to speak & so most of that meaning i was talking about ended up getting lost in translation & chumbawamba was written off as a one hit wonder, never to be heard from again.
i mean, i dont really blame america for not really believing in chumbawamba & i most certainly dont blame chumbawamba for giving up on america. after touring here & seeing what it's like chumbawamba released another record called WYSIWYG [or, what you see is what you get], it was an accurate portrayal of life in america. the first track "i'm with stupid" really hit the nail on the head as to why chumbawamba hates america & is never coming back. it's quite unfortunate when i think about this, because i would really love to see these guys play. but either, you know about chumbawamba & the way they are OR you know they get knocked down but get up again & again & again.
anyway, that's got fuck all to do with the new cd. i'm only half way through or so, but they've been hating on everything. the second track "Add Me" is an anti-myspace song, the chorus singing "i dont like people but i like to pretend, would you like to add me as a friend?" just proves that while they may not be the dead set anarchists they were when they released "pictures of starving children sell records" after Live Aid, when they were still a punk band, they're still thinking about it. they still believe in everything they believed in & the new songs are just more elaboration on that.
the instrumentation on the record is also quite amazing, reaching back into their catalog to revisit styles from un & WYSIWYG all the while still making it sound new & fresh. so far there hasnt been one song on this record that i dont like. but then again, i've got a thing for guitars, accordians, & horns, as well as the sweet female vocals that appear on nearly every track. oh yeah, i forgot to mention this: the new faint cd is 10 songs long, the new chumbawamba joint? 25 tracks. yeah, suck on that, the faint. so yeah, basically track this shit down because it's really good if youre into that sort of thing & if not, then i dont know, go download the new faint cd because you probably like sucking dick & that record does a whole lot of that.*
*& that right there folks is why i'm never going to be writing for any music magazines.
in other news, i peeped The Sounds of Science by the Beastie Boys & it brought back quite a few fun memories of when i was a youth. truth be told, this was probably one of the first albums i ever bought. i still remember walking into strawberrys [later turned into an FYE], seeing it, buying it & immediately jamming the fuck out. i remember when i was a 'kid' there were a few songs i really didnt like at all, but going back to the album now i cant really find any of those songs, i like just about everything on this record. the beasties were/are still some of the best rappers alive. it's not like they're unbelievably fast or anything, but god damn they're clever. it's funny to think they started out as a hardcore band way back when, especially considering they're possibly the ONLY rap pioneers who are still recording/touring/alive.
some of my 'new' favorite songs on this album are songs i used to skip over just about every time they came on, funny to think about stuff like that. how musical taste progresses & changes with age. the beasties are some of the only musicians who've held up to my test of time. there's never been a time when i didnt like them & honestly, theres only a couple artists that i can say that for, most of which i've only known about for two or three years now, i've been listening to the beasties since i was like 12. it kinda makes me think about what the original beasties fans think, you know? like the people who were there from the beginning when they were a punk band & played short, fast & loud music, rather than their brand of punk-rap. either way, if you havent yet, get your hands on the sounds of science as i am convinced it will turn anyone who isnt a fan/hasnt heard them before into a fan.
on the other side of the globe we've got those wacky anarchists Chumbawamba with the Boy Bands have Won. first we'll talk about the title of this record. the full title is: The Boy Bands Have Won, And All The Copyists And The Tribute Bands And The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket And Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It To The Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To 'Guard' Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not To Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, And The Boy Bands Have Won.
yes, that's the full title of the new chumbawamba record. kinda makes you think a little now doesnt it? really now, when you hear chumbawamba mentioned most anyone will instantly think "I GET KNOCKED DOWN..etcetc ad nauseum" & be turned off to the idea of even trying to listen to anything else they've ever done. when i first heard tubthumper i remember thinking "wow, everything other than tubthumping has serious meaning behind it, these people are legit musicians" the truth is, that even tubthumping had meaning behind it, but due to certain laws or something the liner notes of the record were severely censored so to speak & so most of that meaning i was talking about ended up getting lost in translation & chumbawamba was written off as a one hit wonder, never to be heard from again.
i mean, i dont really blame america for not really believing in chumbawamba & i most certainly dont blame chumbawamba for giving up on america. after touring here & seeing what it's like chumbawamba released another record called WYSIWYG [or, what you see is what you get], it was an accurate portrayal of life in america. the first track "i'm with stupid" really hit the nail on the head as to why chumbawamba hates america & is never coming back. it's quite unfortunate when i think about this, because i would really love to see these guys play. but either, you know about chumbawamba & the way they are OR you know they get knocked down but get up again & again & again.
anyway, that's got fuck all to do with the new cd. i'm only half way through or so, but they've been hating on everything. the second track "Add Me" is an anti-myspace song, the chorus singing "i dont like people but i like to pretend, would you like to add me as a friend?" just proves that while they may not be the dead set anarchists they were when they released "pictures of starving children sell records" after Live Aid, when they were still a punk band, they're still thinking about it. they still believe in everything they believed in & the new songs are just more elaboration on that.
the instrumentation on the record is also quite amazing, reaching back into their catalog to revisit styles from un & WYSIWYG all the while still making it sound new & fresh. so far there hasnt been one song on this record that i dont like. but then again, i've got a thing for guitars, accordians, & horns, as well as the sweet female vocals that appear on nearly every track. oh yeah, i forgot to mention this: the new faint cd is 10 songs long, the new chumbawamba joint? 25 tracks. yeah, suck on that, the faint. so yeah, basically track this shit down because it's really good if youre into that sort of thing & if not, then i dont know, go download the new faint cd because you probably like sucking dick & that record does a whole lot of that.*
*& that right there folks is why i'm never going to be writing for any music magazines.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
lets hope we're done talking about girl talk-esque music for a little while
or at least until august when e-603's new joint drops.
let's talk about other music though. we'll kick it off today with "Arms Way" by Islands.
seriously islands, what the FUCK happened? you used to be awesome & amazing & now you're garbage. i dont even think i listened to this whole cd before i deleted it from my computer. the first half was all right, but the end just started sucking way too much for me to even care about the record. i dont even know how to describe it, i mean, i guess it sounds like an islands record without any of the good influences of the first islands record.
theres a bunch of dramarama surrounding this band & the members. first the unicorns break up & jaime & mark go off to form islands, shortly after islands first cd is released mark leave islands & they get a new drummer & practically fall off the face of the earth [seriously, this record leaked in like april or something & i just found out about it a couple weeks back].
so yeah, if you like absolute garbage run out & get Arms Way by Islands because it's probably the shittiest ever thing that's flown through my ears recently, with the exception of Night by the Gerogerigegege, but that only wins by default because it's a legitimate recording of a man taking a dump... & IT SOUNDS BETTER THAN ISLANDS NEW CD.
next up we've got Diplo & Santogold with "Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub".
basically, this mix is kind of like what Diplo did for MIA way back when [Piracy Funds Terrorism, for those of you not in the know]. Diplo has to be one of the more eclectic DJs of our time [people like girl talk & e-603 are out for obvious reasons], this mix is no different, diplo manages to jam pack a whole bunch of santogold, some cutty ranks, DEVO, aretha franklin, desmond dekker & THE FUCKING B-52S into an hour & fifteen minutes, all the while keeping it hippin' & a hoppin' all the way through.
i dont typically listen to DJ's or mixtapes or anything, but diplo is a legit exception, his hollertronix style of mixing & his eclectic choices constantly have your head turning in awe, this mix is no different & in fact, is much better than some of his other recent mixes. still, it's no Florida
finally, we'll end with what nick diamonds from the unicorns is doing lately; Human Highway presents "Moody Motorcycle". this record is kind of like what would happen if the unicorns tried to do a folk kind of record. i'm still not all the way through it, as i did just happen to find a new diplo mix maybe an hour after grabbing the human highway cd, so i cant be a total critic on it, but i'll say this about that: the human highway cd is ten and a half times better than arms way by islands by the FOURTH TRACK. so SUCK ON THAT JAIME.
i think i'll have to give it another good listen later on to give a better review, but yes, seek this record out as it is very nice to listen to. then again, every record i wrote about today is nice to listen to EXCEPT arms way by islands.
OKAY THATS IT GET THE FUCK OUT.
let's talk about other music though. we'll kick it off today with "Arms Way" by Islands.
seriously islands, what the FUCK happened? you used to be awesome & amazing & now you're garbage. i dont even think i listened to this whole cd before i deleted it from my computer. the first half was all right, but the end just started sucking way too much for me to even care about the record. i dont even know how to describe it, i mean, i guess it sounds like an islands record without any of the good influences of the first islands record.
theres a bunch of dramarama surrounding this band & the members. first the unicorns break up & jaime & mark go off to form islands, shortly after islands first cd is released mark leave islands & they get a new drummer & practically fall off the face of the earth [seriously, this record leaked in like april or something & i just found out about it a couple weeks back].
so yeah, if you like absolute garbage run out & get Arms Way by Islands because it's probably the shittiest ever thing that's flown through my ears recently, with the exception of Night by the Gerogerigegege, but that only wins by default because it's a legitimate recording of a man taking a dump... & IT SOUNDS BETTER THAN ISLANDS NEW CD.
next up we've got Diplo & Santogold with "Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub".
basically, this mix is kind of like what Diplo did for MIA way back when [Piracy Funds Terrorism, for those of you not in the know]. Diplo has to be one of the more eclectic DJs of our time [people like girl talk & e-603 are out for obvious reasons], this mix is no different, diplo manages to jam pack a whole bunch of santogold, some cutty ranks, DEVO, aretha franklin, desmond dekker & THE FUCKING B-52S into an hour & fifteen minutes, all the while keeping it hippin' & a hoppin' all the way through.
i dont typically listen to DJ's or mixtapes or anything, but diplo is a legit exception, his hollertronix style of mixing & his eclectic choices constantly have your head turning in awe, this mix is no different & in fact, is much better than some of his other recent mixes. still, it's no Florida
finally, we'll end with what nick diamonds from the unicorns is doing lately; Human Highway presents "Moody Motorcycle". this record is kind of like what would happen if the unicorns tried to do a folk kind of record. i'm still not all the way through it, as i did just happen to find a new diplo mix maybe an hour after grabbing the human highway cd, so i cant be a total critic on it, but i'll say this about that: the human highway cd is ten and a half times better than arms way by islands by the FOURTH TRACK. so SUCK ON THAT JAIME.
i think i'll have to give it another good listen later on to give a better review, but yes, seek this record out as it is very nice to listen to. then again, every record i wrote about today is nice to listen to EXCEPT arms way by islands.
OKAY THATS IT GET THE FUCK OUT.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
this is what'd happen basically if the hood internet had a child with girl talk
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Monday, July 14, 2008
i'm still using this thing guys
no one reads this shit, who gives a fuck.
so i've been listening to stuff that isnt girl talk lately. let's review:
also
&
but i dont even want to talk about these records [for the record the second one is arms way by islands, which is barely even that good, the first record was much, much better [but still not nearly as great as the unicorns].
lately i've been listening to mountain goats bootlegs as i got some "new" ones, very happy about that, friends are important.
okay, since i cant really talk much more about that [go see the mountain goats live & even if you didnt like a record or certain songs you will have a new appreciation for them] i guess i'll go ahead & write something about this bike is a pipe bomb.
it's funny considering the bands name that they're folk punk, with an almost swing/dance hall kind of vibe. lyrically they're fun & upbeat, positive music for sure, i mean, just take a listen to "Depression". most of the songs are barely 2 and a half minutes & the last song is a mere 55 seconds long, but in every song they manage to pack a whole lot of great music & still leave you wanting to hear the next track.
this furry on a message board somewhere in outer space gave some people his breakcore-beat-to-fuck-toss in a toilet homage to happy hardcore & it was pretty excellent, short tracks, dancy as fuck, & loud. tracks like "am i the only person to notice goths listen to happy hardcore?" & "trapped under a hoover" are just really excellent in an hey check it out it's like breakcore decided to not only rape gabba, but skullfuck the shit out of happy hardcore.
OKAY I'M DONE YOU CAN ALL GO HOME SHOWS FUCKING OVER.
so i've been listening to stuff that isnt girl talk lately. let's review:
also
&
but i dont even want to talk about these records [for the record the second one is arms way by islands, which is barely even that good, the first record was much, much better [but still not nearly as great as the unicorns].
lately i've been listening to mountain goats bootlegs as i got some "new" ones, very happy about that, friends are important.
okay, since i cant really talk much more about that [go see the mountain goats live & even if you didnt like a record or certain songs you will have a new appreciation for them] i guess i'll go ahead & write something about this bike is a pipe bomb.
it's funny considering the bands name that they're folk punk, with an almost swing/dance hall kind of vibe. lyrically they're fun & upbeat, positive music for sure, i mean, just take a listen to "Depression". most of the songs are barely 2 and a half minutes & the last song is a mere 55 seconds long, but in every song they manage to pack a whole lot of great music & still leave you wanting to hear the next track.
this furry on a message board somewhere in outer space gave some people his breakcore-beat-to-fuck-toss in a toilet homage to happy hardcore & it was pretty excellent, short tracks, dancy as fuck, & loud. tracks like "am i the only person to notice goths listen to happy hardcore?" & "trapped under a hoover" are just really excellent in an hey check it out it's like breakcore decided to not only rape gabba, but skullfuck the shit out of happy hardcore.
OKAY I'M DONE YOU CAN ALL GO HOME SHOWS FUCKING OVER.
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