catalog

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There's the odd hip hop tune which I immediately love (planet rock, you and me, oops, missy's rain, maybe something like three 6 mafia, mix-o-rap, or that "saginaw" tune version posted) but it often takes me a lot of listens to appreciate stuff.

I'll stick these webesc recc'd in a mix tho and put them in the rotation.
 

luka

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well this is part of the exercise isnt it? looking closely at these blocks and aversions and wondering what they are comprised of and hw they came to be there
 

luka

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your really trying to perceive and analyse very closely what happens to you when you are exposed to a given piece of music. how it makes you react, feel, think, imagine, remember etc. what you can hear it, what catches your ear, what only becomes apparent after close listening, hos it fits with your sense of the genre, its possibilities and its cliches, how you think about it in social terms, how it might be expected to work in the world, what pleasures and comforts its intended audience takes from it, so on and so forth
 

luka

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'This was and might still be music fandom for me. If you can will it, deliberately alter the way you expose yourself to pieces of music, you can make major changes to the preferences once thought to be immutable aspects of the self. And its a visceral and base change, you feel it in your gut, not just a heady 'appreciation.' Music was very formative for me in that way, it showed me the self as a laboratory or switchboard, and that experiences can be reality modulators. used, not consumed' Charles Wainscot Limburger
 

catalog

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your really trying to perceive and analyse very closely what happens to you when you are exposed to a given piece of music. how it makes you react, feel, think, imagine, remember etc. what you can hear it, what catches your ear, what only becomes apparent after close listening, hos it fits with your sense of the genre, its possibilities and its cliches, how you think about it in social terms, how it might be expected to work in the world, what pleasures and comforts its intended audience takes from it, so on and so forth
"Nice mellow rocking beat" what's wrong with that
 

catalog

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I do really like wu tang clan fwiw, specially that first album. And I listened to a lot of Cuban linx and liquid swords after that poll thread
 

catalog

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My aversion to hip hop does in part stem from what it means, as a culture, up here. Just the people I knew who were hip hop heads. Not keen.

Scrawny white boys from middle class backgrounds thinking they are cool and throwing hand signals.
 

luka

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My aversion to hip hop does in part stem from what it means, as a culture, up here. Just the people I knew who were hip hop heads. Not keen.

Scrawny white boys from middle class backgrounds thinking they are cool and throwing hand signals.
i assumed it was this primarily
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
Well thanks webesc, I'm honoured.

And whilst I've heard of goody mob, I've never heard this.

It's got a nice mellow rocking beat, I could get into it.
The whole album is amazing., would recommend checking. It hangs together as a coherent whole.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I used to have an adverse reaction to middle age British guys listening to classic 90s rap and pronouncing that anything contemporary was worthless. That actually made me want to listen to more new stuff. Hating some obscure sub-tribe of rap's audience - finding them profoundly WRONG - is one of the pleasure of enjoying it. All these guys probably have kids now and stay in a lot more, much like me.
 
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