I'm beating back this illness with penicillin. Soon i'm gonna be live again. Free party soundsystems cost lots of cash .. too much for me on my own, some of my people are gonna have to help me out with 1000's rather than 100's.
Don't need anything for Christmas this year (unless Santa wants to just drop a Turbosound rig under the tree .. but I think that would cost him the best part of 10k and I don't know if I have been good enough).
There is one of my 'holy grail' records up on e-bay at the mo (its a 7" and its a cover .. thats all i'm saying
). I'm gonna get it but the bidding could get deep (crosses fingers no-one wants to pay more than 150 quid for it). I will cry if i don't win it, i have only ever seen 1 for sale before. They just *never* turn up.
Don't need anything for Christmas this year (unless Santa wants to just drop a Turbosound rig under the tree .. but I think that would cost him the best part of 10k and I don't know if I have been good enough).
There is one of my 'holy grail' records up on e-bay at the mo (its a 7" and its a cover .. thats all i'm saying
). I'm gonna get it but the bidding could get deep (crosses fingers no-one wants to pay more than 150 quid for it). I will cry if i don't win it, i have only ever seen 1 for sale before. They just *never* turn up.
for me, it's not about technicality of figure drawing skills, it's more about how provokative the pieces are. most of the old skool portraiture by so called masters bores the shit out of me.
i really like the flow of the picture posted in my journal... i like the color and the balance of linear weight. this guy is great at conveying motion.
what's really cool about him tho is that he werks with sand... sometimes he'll perform with orchestras. i really want to see some of his sand animation films.
i like the sax hook, but what i really don't like is the fact that it's a hook and horribly redundant... honestly, i cannot stand it when hip hop producers repeat the same line over and over with no progression at all. it kinda drives me nuts when people use jazz hooks but take the essence out of the music... jazz is all about wild progression, which is why i love it so much.
guru/donald byrd's "]loungin'[/URL" is an example of a hip hop jazz fusion that i really really like, because it embraces the essences of both music rather than raping the jazz to convert it into hip hop. i really like lots of the jazzmatazz stuff. the song with roy ayers is hot too; i'm a vibe junkie.
i think if i'm going to be listening to the same hook over and over, i prefer something more simple and funky over something as deep as that hook - that hook lures me in (completely away from the rappers,) and then when it repeats itself, i get frustrated. for example, with ditc, i love their production because i don't usually get totally caught up in the production, i kinda switch back and forth between rapper and instrumental (not always true, i sometimes get caught up in the beats, but it's usually because they're fascinating.) but i wouldn't exactly call their beats simple due to the fact that a good amount of them are quite busy with instrumentation, however, they are looped and most of them aren't too intense to where they'll completely divert my attention to a particular phrase then allow me to get annoyed by repetition. well, there's one show beat that drives me absolutely nuts... i can't remember the name of the song, but i think it's got like big pun or fat joe rapping on it... one of them fat mother fuckers. and it's real gangster, i think. anyway, the beat is just these really really intense horns; the sound reminds me of creaking swingset chains. really up tight sounding. aside from that, i'm usually a big fan of their beats. they're sexy. i like the way they'll teaset you with their beat structure.
but aboutt he sax hook, i relaly do like the phrase itself... i'd like to hear where it came from; chances are it's a good tune.
edit- i wasn't very articulate when contrasting the repetitions of other hip hop beats with this one... this is a two bar loop. i prefer the standard 8 bar loop because it at least gives off the illusion of being progressive... i also like super simple beats with just bass, drums, a good rapper, and maybe an occassional melodic accompaniment or sound effect (the beat itself has to be progressive tho)
i love this simple ass beat.
[Edited on Dec 18, 2004 3:34PM]
you should DEFINITELY make some beats... i'm sure you'll be better than 99.9% of the producers out there- seriously. you have seem to have a good ear for music, and i'm sure you have a fabulous sample arsenal.
i actually thought you already made beats.
put those rare beats to use, boy!
as far as the drawing, the reason i have this feeling of affinity toward it is because it really expresses what i've been feeling for the past couple weeks... not to mention it's totally airy. so it's like someone telling me a story from a perspective very similar to my own; i can relate to it.
i'm fairly impartial about a bunch of the others... except these:
i liek this one too, i'm still figuring it out: