"Antony Hegarty’s album under the name ANOHNI is called HOPELESSNESS and will be out in the spring of 2016. The forthcoming record, along with its first single ‘4 Degrees’, is co-produced with Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never."
Japanther's Dump the Body in Rikki Lake may be the most Japanther album ever. Which is to say it is structured like a B-sides and demos collection with two versions of one song and three of another with the most necro production this side of Sigh and it is just such a *gleeful* mess. It's also their début, because why wouldn't you put this out as your début. Master of Pigeons is a better album but this is... almost definitive, because it gives even fewer fucks somehow.
Unfortunately, that easy groovability and a much-more-than-you-know feeling led to the co-option of his legacy a bit with more mainstream recognition and feigned understanding. In 2010, hundreds of die-hard fans, mourners, and posers alike lined up at clothing brand Stussy’s LA storefront for their first annual Dilla Day to purchase limited edition T-shirts with a silk-screened graphic of Dilla reaching for a vinyl record, and listen to his Stones Throw musical family spin his records. And though the fam signed off on Stussy’s genuine gesture, those T-shirts cloaked some fake posturing in an authentic costume, and the true heads could feel it. I recall a particularly heated exchange almost exploding into an all-out ass-whooping after some clown asked “Who is this?” as J. Rocc spun “Lightworks.”
tbf I don't know why you would go to a tribute to someone if you don't know what is arguably their most famous song. Beating someone up is several steps too far, but when you consider that actual family of the person were there it at least becomes understandable if not excusable.
but anyway the whole J Dilla real fan / poser argument is tired, but the rest of the article is good.
so I went to The Salvation Army today and I found this album (radioFUSIONradio by The College Boyz), expecting it to not be anything super interesting
but holy shit this record is incredible
please listen to at least "Victim of The Ghetto" which is one of the best pop-rap songs I have ever heard and sacrifices nothing of either of those. It went to #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 but I should still be hearing this to this day, and it is sad that I am not.
Apparently lead rapper R.O.M. is an actor now, couldn't find out what happened to the other dudes (MC Squeak, B-Selector, and DJ Cue). Hope they're doing alright.
So, to the people here who like black metal, especially weird black metal: Book of Sand's The Face of the Deep is kind of incredible.
Imagine, if you will, a combination of traditional second-wave black metal instrumentation and aesthetics (with some particularly vicious screaming) with slide guitar, toy piano, and full gamelan instrumentation, replete with melodies oriented around pelog scales and traditional Javanese heterophony in addition to the sort of broad, dark harmonies generally seen in the genre. Now, imagine a set of such songs closing with an English folk song, first in a spare, guitar-and-voice arrangement, and then with the full band behind it.
Daniel Amos' Mr. Buechner's Dream suffers from your usual Double Album Syndrome (aka "It would be better if it were edited down to just one album"). But it's unusual in that the songs don't start getting "meh" until halfway through disc 2. And Disc 1 actually works as an album all by itself quite well, with bookends and everything.
In spite of every reviewer calling it a double album, it really comes across more like a regular album, with a second disc's worth of bonus tracks.
That's sort of the reverse of Ramleh's Circular Time, which I listened to recently: For the most part, it flows like an LP, with each half having a distinct arc and ending but with the whole thing being very much of one piece, but it's comprised of two hour-long discs of material. It's consistent throughout, and nowhere bad or dull really, but it's kind of exhausting.
So, to the people here who like black metal, especially weird black metal: Book of Sand's The Face of the Deep is kind of incredible.
Imagine, if you will, a combination of traditional second-wave black metal instrumentation and aesthetics (with some particularly vicious screaming) with slide guitar, toy piano, and full gamelan instrumentation, replete with melodies oriented around pelog scales and traditional Javanese heterophony in addition to the sort of broad, dark harmonies generally seen in the genre. Now, imagine a set of such songs closing with an English folk song, first in a spare, guitar-and-voice arrangement, and then with the full band behind it.
He's a green anarchist, too, which is an interesting enough position to make me take notice, and for the most part he just records everything himself. Apparently he started out as a classically trained cellist, so that shows up a lot in his earlier work. He also was absolutely gleeful when an angry reviewer on the Metal Archives gave one of his albums a 0%.
That is not terribly surprising. I mean, odd as it sounds, what sort of music would one expect a green anarchist to make? "Experimental folk-inflected black metal" is a pretty solid guess, all told.
Very laid back, uncomplex jazz that is not quite smooth jazz, has a bit more grit to it than that. Dude's from Ethiopia but I don't really know much about him though he's apparently quite famous. I stumbled onto this album via what I'd describe as a multi-website wiki walk.
so I went to The Salvation Army today and I found this album (radioFUSIONradio by The College Boyz), expecting it to not be anything super interesting
but holy shit this record is incredible
please listen to at least "Victim of The Ghetto" which is one of the best pop-rap songs I have ever heard and sacrifices nothing of either of those. It went to #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 but I should still be hearing this to this day, and it is sad that I am not.
Apparently lead rapper R.O.M. is an actor now, couldn't find out what happened to the other dudes (MC Squeak, B-Selector, and DJ Cue). Hope they're doing alright.
Update: this entire album isn't that great but the 7-track stretch at the beginning is pretty incredible. Give it a spin IMO.
the other album I got (Handing The Torch by US3) is also really good. Sort of a spiritual predecessor to the Madlib Invades Blue Note thing.
Very laid back, uncomplex jazz that is not quite smooth jazz, has a bit more grit to it than that. Dude's from Ethiopia but I don't really know much about him though he's apparently quite famous. I stumbled onto this album via what I'd describe as a multi-website wiki walk.
I feel like this is a sunn wolf question somehow
I'm not an expert on this but the Ethiopian jazz and folk-blues traditions are really pretty interesting in general. Maybe look into more of that? There are a lot of Blogspot blogs that specialise in obscure stuff like that.
I would personally recommend Nothin' Sez Somethin' for their exceedingly ambitious project to upload albums from basically every country on earth—with a particular emphasis on underrepresented regions like Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa.
NSN also post a lot of general weird stuff, some more up your alley but most more up mine; if I'm not mistaken, a post with 95% of the Hunting Lodge discography is up there.
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that is
a lineup
We need to change that soon.