For the past six months, I had given up on music that involved guitars. After surviving a brief affair with Indie rock and pop sometime last summer, I got heavy into hip-hop and neo soul, and since then my ears have been stuck to the turntable with my head nodding along to pre-programmed beats and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hip-Hop’
The blues had a baby and they named it something
Posted in personal, sound, tagged black crowes, dave wyndorf, ed mundell, henry rollins, Hip-Hop, Indie rock and pop, jefferson airplane, kyuss, monster magnet, nebula, negasonic teenage warhead, neo soul, rock and roll, rock me baby, sold my soul to rock and roll, song on youtube, the cult, the stooges, wishbone ash, yardbirds on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You Can’t Mess With Brother Ali
Posted in sound, tagged 50 cents, brother ali, de la soul, dj premier, golden age, Hip-Hop, mos def, outkast, rain water, rakim on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The golden era of hip-hop officially began during the late Eighties with artists such as KRS-One, Rakim, Mos Def, Gangstarr and A Tribe Called Quest discussing afrocentrism and contemplating the need for anti-Aryan militant warfare; all the while, being backed by pounding bass beats and eclectic turntablism. Its tenure was short-lived as rappers from Death [...]
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 [...]
Stop children, what’s that sound
Posted in sound, tagged Bjork, Blackalicious, Hip-Hop, Nineties, Sixties, Zero 7 on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has turned out to be quite a fad to trash the current sound. During the Sixties, music fans found love, lust and LSD inside electric organs. They drank whiskey and left their women back home when the Seventies dawned upon them. The Eighties witnessed these poor souls paying more attention [...]
