Ice Age III: Ice Age III is the Leprechaun III and IV of its generation. Unnecessary, irritating and damming proof that kicking a dead horse is funny only when it is not used as a metaphor. I can think of only two genuinely funny moments…a prehistoric ostrich chick getting knocked out trying to bury its [...]
Posts Tagged ‘DJ Shadow’
Movie review: Cold shit, linear titillations and lots of turntables
Posted in film, tagged DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, harmony korine, Ice Age III, Leprechaun III, Leprechaun IV, Diego, Ice Age I, Gregg Araki, Nowhere, Totally Fucked Up, Doomed Generation, Mysterious Skin, James Duval, Rachel True, Joseph Gordon Lewitt, Brady Cobert, Bill Sage, Scratch documentary, Scratch, Doug Pray, turntablism, DJ Qubert. DJ Jazzy Jeff, Afrika Bambaataa, Transformers II review, Transformers sucks, Small Wonder, Robocop on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Electric soup for the tortured soul
Posted in sound, tagged big time sensuality, Bjork, DJ Shadow, Gill Scott Heron, Kid A, Kobayashi, People Under The Stairs, PUTS, radiohead, Strange Lights and Resolutions, Talvin Singh on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apart from being the title of a really cool Wes Craven flick, People Under The Stairs (PUTS) is also what a bunch of jazzy hip-hoppers form LA are calling themselves. Having released over six albums, four EPs, a couple of mixtapes to their credit and having fashioned a laidback vibe that even the late Miles [...]
Three reasons why you should turn off the TV
Posted in sound, tagged alu, black sky blue death, diplo, DJ Shadow, john zorn, marlena shaw, sinead connor on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alu, a songwriter from LA, seems to have perfected the art of crafting playful pop songs. But in the continued tradition of good music going unnoticed, hardly anyone bought her brilliant debut – Infomercial Gasmask. Her next album Lobotomy Sessions was even better; not that the album sales were any indicator of quality. The playful [...]
Lurking in the shadows
Posted in sound, tagged DJ Krush, DJ Muggs, DJ Shadow, Endtroducing, funk, Hip-Hop, jazz, midnight in a perfect world on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The prefix “DJ” in aliases turns a lot of people off away from a whole lot of good music. It’s not all about techno/house/jungle nonsense for these new age instrumentalists. Artists like DJ Krush, DJ Muggs and DJ Shadow are out there, tearing it up with their brand of turntabilsm. Some atmospheric, others groovy, and [...]
