Musi(c || ngs)
It's been 12 days since my last entry.
Kavinsky and SebastiAn, I found out through David are coming to Adelaide!!!!! Playing Rocket Bar this Friday, 9pm. Can't wait. I did not have enough spare cash to fly to Melbourne to see them and it's only going to cost like $12-$15 entry. Yay! Can't wait.
I have been listening to a lot of music from the Ed Banger label recently, some really good electronic music coming out on this label. ATM I am listening to DJ Mehdi's album, "Lucky Boy" and it's really good :)
My Fave songs are "I am somebody", "Signature", "Pony Rocking", "Lucky Boy" and "Hot-o-momo".
The style is like electronic/rap. I have no idea what to label a lot of music I listen to.
I am now using Foobar2000 because it kicks-ass in it's ability to be able to customize it and it display every last stat from your mp3's id3v2 tags :) Now i submit to foosic as well as Last.fm I am having to enter genres for music as it records genre. I like this as it helps me maintain my mp3 collection. I also now download the album cover if i don't have it as Foobar2000 displays this.
I often get stuck as what to call something. Is there a difference between Electro and Electronic? My main genre's tend to be, Alternative, Dance, Electronic, Pop, Italo Disco, Industrial, Hip Hop (with no dash) and then any other derivatives/sub-genres I come across. It's hard, I really want to tag my genres correctly but it seems genres can be objectionable, or can they?
Anyway going back to Ed Banger, I found a link from someones last.fm shoutbox to Ed Bangers latest release, "Ed Rec Vol.2" - a compilation of songs from various artists on Ed Banger such as Uffie, Justice, DJ Mehdi, Mr Flash, Feadz, Busy P and SebastiAn.
This is REALLY good. If you are into good new electronic music with a french touch perhaps then this compilation is for you. It's that stoppy starty, MSTRKRFT, Daft Punk inspired sound heads be running with these days. Track it down and bless your ears, you owe them that much... you barely clean the wax out of them as it is... it is usually what, like a month before you give them some q-tip loving.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.... I read this great article from The Onion's AV Club called, "Is Hip-hop relevant to middle aged white guys?".
I know, this pic is disgusting but it was the only one google images came up with that sorta showed a middle aged white man in hip hop attire, kinda related to the artice.
It's crosstalk. Well thought out question and answers, a sort of "for and against" on the subject. Some really good points are expressed in this which I think that many people overlook or don't think about. Here are some good quotes from it:
Still, I can't help but be a little defensive, because in our business, there's something suspect about a rock critic who doesn't keep up with hip-hop. (Though the opposite isn't true: No one gripes at a Source writer for not knowing anything about The Hold Steady.)
I think everybody hungers for that glorious rush of identification we experience when we stumble across music that speaks to something deep and personal within us—that transcendent feeling of listening to someone whose music conveys what we feel or think, but lack the eloquence or talent to convey.
One of the most important things art can do is engender empathy. Hip-hop allows anybody with an iPod or boom box to slip inside the skin of the street-corner hustler, coke dealer, or gang-banger.
- This point really stood out to me and I like this about Hip Hop but had not realised this until I read the article. Even if the lyrics are mostly fictional or exaggerated, it lets me step into another persons shoes, which by the way is something i love to do. I listen to late night talk back radio for this very same reason.. oh and that show on Saturdays, "The Sleepover Club". haha.. why should I like this show? I shouldn't! I'm a 24yr old male, I cannot identify one bit with the characters or the demographic this show is aimed at and yet I love it. I think I have a bit of "writer" in me. I have read or heard that "writers" constantly think about people and their characteristics, what makes people unique, they are interested in getting into someone else's shoes and this is definitely true of me. Back to article.
No hold up... i just found myself misspelling definitely, i wrote it as definately.. definAtely.. the a should be an i. I came across a digg article which pointed this out and I have been doing it wrong for all my life! Ok, back to article.
As a critic, it seems like one of the things you treasure most from movies is a fully realized sense of time and place. That's one of the areas hip-hop excels. I feel like I know a lot more about the South and the West and East Coasts from listening to hip-hop. I'll probably never set foot in a housing project in New Orleans, but thanks to B.G., Li'l Wayne, and Juvenile, that terrain doesn't seem quite so foreign to me, or the rest of America, for that matter.
You could certainly argue that hip-hop—primarily the kind of mainstream hip found on BET, MTV, and top-40 radio—sells a reductive, sensationalistic, cynical version of black culture, but a fair amount of truth slips in alongside all the bullshit and calculation.
Because when it comes to the mainstream, I've listened to debut albums by rappers where they're already complaining about how success brings out the haters. And that attitude has crept into all levels of popular culture. You could stick a microphone in the face of a linebacker for a undefeated championship team, and he'd still say, "People doubted us all year."
For MC Flash In The Pan, the victory worth bragging about isn't that he's created a body of work that will stand the test of time, it's that he got from wherever the fuck he came from to having a major-label deal. Chances are it's never going to get any better than that for poor MC Flash In the Pan, so he better enjoy it while he can: He probably won't be receiving any royalties, and it's doubtful his label has any real interest in him as a long-term proposition. To me, a rapper's faux-omnipotence, like rap's misogyny, is really an expression of powerlessness: I have no real control over my career or how I'm marketed, but as long as I'm in the booth, I'll pretend I'm God. Similarly, rappers don't understand women and fear their sexual power, so they overcompensate by pretending that women are worthless sex objects. It's kinda pathetic, really. In hip-hop, as in the rest of our culture, there's a self-fulfilling aspect to supremely over-the-top bravado. 50 Cent rapped about being the King Of New York and a major competitor to Jay-Z and Nas when he was still MC Who The Fuck Are You Again? and suddenly, the media started treating him that way.
Article Link: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/58832
I had something else to write, what was it again................................................................................
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I want one of these D.A.R.E. tees but not this one which says, "to resist drugs and violence" underneath. This msg is lame, the effectiveness of this t-shirt in making a person resist drugs or violence would be absolutely 0. I want one of these because it is cooooooooool, i saw that one of the members of Justice was wearing one whilst dj'ing at Big Day Out this yr. So gooood.. so eye catching. It's one of those iconic, must have pieces of fashion. One of the justice dudes had one of these but it said, "to keep kids dancing" underneath. Yeah, a D.A.R.E. t-shirt which said this would rule!
I Think About You and What You Say
Sharevari: Ever since you used the word "fave" in one of your journals or last.fm sidebar I have decided to spell it fave too instead of just fav. I think about this every time I go to spell it somewhere.
BigPixels: I have used stouche (Stupid Douche) about 3 times in conversation, both online and offline from the time in that msn conversation when you were describing how funny you found it and were lol'ing.
Maybe this should be an ongoing thing, whenever I find myself thinking about someone or something they said repeatedly will blog it.
Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 3:22 PM
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