this whole weekly business hasn't worked out so well. too many late nights, early mornings, and lazy, misspent evenings. so now, on a cold saturday afternoon, i finally get around to writing some more. well, the past while has been interesting. i wrote some articles for a college newspaper that, i feel at any rate, were at turns inspired and pretentious, but overall coherent. but for one awful sentence in the middle of the larger article of course. i suppose one reason for writing this blog is at the very least writing practice, and by setting some sort of weekly goal for myself i can get used to the whole deadlines business. and since no-one's reading this anyway i can say what i like! so everybody wins...
the other day i popped into a music shop in george's street arcade, looking for the richie hawtin cd/dvd set transitions, but instead came across a pile of promos, at the front of which i saw the new stanton warriors fabric mix. which isn't out until october 16th, according to fabriclondon.com at any rate. i was a little disappointed by the stanton sessions 2 (and have yet to bother playing lost files, shocking i know), not least because nearly every track was a stantons production. personally i like a little variety in my dj mixes, at least in terms of artists if not styles, so when 9 out of the 16 tracks are their own it's a little overwhelming. obviously it's not as bad as the infamous GU26, but the less said about that the better. anyway. this new mix is nice, seems like, while there's a large amount of stanton stuff, it's more party based than show-off-y. and pop ya virus is genius.
i also picked up a promo copy (ie same cd just no packaging and half the price) of destroy minimal, to which i'm currently listening. two tracks in and it's nice too, can't really complain. i can't say i know all that much about minimal, save for a few mixes from the likes of richie hawtin and james holden (oh and his dub of britney's breath on me is awesome), some nathan fake tracks (dinamo in particular) and alex smoke's paradolia. but what i'm hearing so far is good, particularly lazy fat people's big city. sort of what trance should sound like if tiesto wasn't the biggest dj in the world. i've managed to get well away from the whole techno deep house end of things so i really have no idea how to put words on these things, but i like these sounds. stephan bodzin's caligula is also impressing me. my problem, as previously stated, is that a lot of music that is new to me is old, and any cds i buy i put away and neglect for far too long. hence listening to stantons on the way home and DM now.
eghck.
i've been listening to lots of clipse lately too, mainly because i keep reading them on pitchfork. much as i've loved lord willin' ever since i bought it three years ago, i can't stop playing definition of a roller (on piracy funds terrorism, yes i'm talking about diplo again) and what happened to that boy. and we got it 4 cheap vol. 2 is awesome, i remember the first time i heard it back in march i suddenly felt "yes, hip hop is not dead/dying"... these lines may not be the best malice has ever said, but i like the way they get you with that "oooh!" factor:
first time out the gate n*gga's a grammy nominee
but whether rappin or crack momma's still proud of me
using her good dishes leaving them powdery
blow in your nose got you sniffin like allergy
on that note...
the other day i popped into a music shop in george's street arcade, looking for the richie hawtin cd/dvd set transitions, but instead came across a pile of promos, at the front of which i saw the new stanton warriors fabric mix. which isn't out until october 16th, according to fabriclondon.com at any rate. i was a little disappointed by the stanton sessions 2 (and have yet to bother playing lost files, shocking i know), not least because nearly every track was a stantons production. personally i like a little variety in my dj mixes, at least in terms of artists if not styles, so when 9 out of the 16 tracks are their own it's a little overwhelming. obviously it's not as bad as the infamous GU26, but the less said about that the better. anyway. this new mix is nice, seems like, while there's a large amount of stanton stuff, it's more party based than show-off-y. and pop ya virus is genius.
i also picked up a promo copy (ie same cd just no packaging and half the price) of destroy minimal, to which i'm currently listening. two tracks in and it's nice too, can't really complain. i can't say i know all that much about minimal, save for a few mixes from the likes of richie hawtin and james holden (oh and his dub of britney's breath on me is awesome), some nathan fake tracks (dinamo in particular) and alex smoke's paradolia. but what i'm hearing so far is good, particularly lazy fat people's big city. sort of what trance should sound like if tiesto wasn't the biggest dj in the world. i've managed to get well away from the whole techno deep house end of things so i really have no idea how to put words on these things, but i like these sounds. stephan bodzin's caligula is also impressing me. my problem, as previously stated, is that a lot of music that is new to me is old, and any cds i buy i put away and neglect for far too long. hence listening to stantons on the way home and DM now.
eghck.
i've been listening to lots of clipse lately too, mainly because i keep reading them on pitchfork. much as i've loved lord willin' ever since i bought it three years ago, i can't stop playing definition of a roller (on piracy funds terrorism, yes i'm talking about diplo again) and what happened to that boy. and we got it 4 cheap vol. 2 is awesome, i remember the first time i heard it back in march i suddenly felt "yes, hip hop is not dead/dying"... these lines may not be the best malice has ever said, but i like the way they get you with that "oooh!" factor:
first time out the gate n*gga's a grammy nominee
but whether rappin or crack momma's still proud of me
using her good dishes leaving them powdery
blow in your nose got you sniffin like allergy
on that note...
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