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mms

sometimes
mistersloane said:
What d'yer reckon to the 5 percent book? The breakdown about golf had me howling with laughter.
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i really like it
its quite riveting, the mathematics is mind-boggling and the lead character allah sounds fantastic. It's great on background to the political struggles, and the new york muslim stuff which i'd read about b4 in hakim bey's sacred drift book, but you see so much complex african american language coming thru in these ideas which is illuminating. I'm only half way thru but it's great.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
mms said:
i really like it
its quite riveting, the mathematics is mind-boggling and the lead character allah sounds fantastic. It's great on background to the political struggles, and the new york muslim stuff which i'd read about b4 in hakim bey's sacred drift book, but you see so much complex african american language coming thru in these ideas which is illuminating. I'm only half way thru but it's great.
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Phew thank god for that! I'd been waiting for a book to totally go into the origins of the Gods and Earths for ages, and I really think he's on the money with the way he writes and researches his work, he really asks and answers all the questions you would want to ask. Glad you liked it too.
 
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mms

sometimes
mistersloane said:
Phew thank god for that! I'd been waiting for a book to totally go into the origins of the Gods and Earths for ages, and I really think he's on the money with the way he writes and researches his work, he really asks and answers all the questions you would want to ask. Glad you liked it too.
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yeah well 10 years after not really listening to wu tang much it's made em come alive for me in a way that i'm hooked on a different band to the one i listened to back then again.
yes i always wanted to know where that stuff came from and what it meant too, it's a piece of the puzzle that's always been missing.
 
leamas

leamas

Well-known member
bunnyhausen said:
also, nudged by simon reynolds' retro blissblog posts, been listening to lots of mover / cold rush / pcp stuff. makes good listening as the nights draw inwards!!
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cool! sounds ionteresting. what can you reccomend on cold rush and pcp? i haven't come across them before.
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
All the punk, post-punk, hardcore and post-hardcore I listened to in high school and it's been one of the most rewarding and revelatory things I have done all year. No lie.
 
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bassnation

the abyss
Sick Boy said:
All the punk, post-punk, hardcore and post-hardcore I listened to in high school and it's been one of the most rewarding and revelatory things I have done all year. No lie.
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remember this?

"I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around
And fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit
Up my nose
Pass out
At the shows
I don't even
Think about speed
That's something
I just don't need

I've got the straight edge"
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
leamas said:
cool! sounds ionteresting. what can you reccomend on cold rush and pcp? i haven't come across them before.
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I THINK he recorded on PCP (at least some of his stuff), but get anything associated with Marc Acardipane anyways, if you already haven't. There's a two-CD retrospective of his stuff that's fantastic:)
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
bassnation said:
remember this?

"I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around
And fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit
Up my nose
Pass out
At the shows
I don't even
Think about speed
That's something
I just don't need

I've got the straight edge"
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I swore by it :eek:
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
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the single most mindblowing and pleasurable solo Cello recording I have ever heard - there are many contenders but none really come close - the richness of timbres, dexterity of hand, fluidity in the handling of super technically challenging passages - breathtaking and endlessly enjoyable.

what drew me first to this was the great label - Harmonia Mundi, name of the composer Gyorgy Ligetti, and then immediately the photo of this very young and very charming (HOT) Cellist in a... leather jacket? and the setting seems to be... a pub?? after hearing this I ofcourse researched some of her other albums and, I very well may be wrong but, it seems like this is the golden recording after which she went on to make much less exciting records.

BBC Music Magazine - "Her performance, taped in the composer’s presence, is arresting and naturally authoritative. She’s excellent, too, in the fearsomely demanding Henze Serenade, one of the most rewarding yet technically baffling works in the literature, and Bertrand’s account of the George Crumb Sonata is bettered only by Frans Helmerson’s definitive BIS version.

The Ligeti Sonata, with its seemingly unplayable final Capriccio, is a virtuoso tour de force, and Bertrand succeeds magnificently in making sense of this unrelentingly elusive though masterful work. Finally, she’s no less convincing in Nicolas Bacri’s Suite No. 4, written especially for her...this is a triumph. Highly recommended."

Performance FIVE STARS Sound FOUR STARS
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some person on Amazon: Emmanuelle Bertrand is amongst the best cellists of the younger generation. Indeed there is a letter in the sleeve notes from Dutilleux himself commending her qualities as an artist. Her range of tonal colours is immense, her tone ravishing and her articulation a delight.

This CD has won a massive amount of awards in France, and its easy to hear why. The Ligeti solo Sonata is a beautifully concise work, written in 1948 in his pre experimental/avante guard phase (his 'Hungarian' phase), with a soulful and songful first movement, and massively virtuosic and brilliant second movement. The George Crumb Sonata of 1955, another pillar of the solo cello repertoire also recieves a highly coloured and perfectly executed reading. The surprisingly tonal Henze Serenade and newly comissiones Bacri Suite are pleasent enough but are not up to the level of the other masterpieces on the disk.

The Dutilleux Trois Strophes have been recorded a few times, and this is the best version of them. As has been said, Dutilleux himself praises the recording, which should be reason enough to believe in their supremecy. These three short pieces are some of the greatest solo cello music written in the twentieth century.

None of the music is very difficult to listen too, in the way that Ligeti for instance, can be .I recommend this CD unreservedly.
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Nicolas Bacri - Suite n°4 op.50
George Crumb - Sonate
Henri Dutilleux - Trois strophes sur le nom de SACHER
Hans Werner Henze - Sérénade
György Ligeti - Sonate

this CD was out of print for a long long time... but apparently no longer the case - i discovered after the upload, and my response is FUCK IT. sue me.

http://rapidshare.com/files/66265110/Bertrand__Emmanuelle_-_Solo_Cello.zip
 
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gumdrops

Well-known member
i really liked rinse 01 at first - its mixed excellently (wish more mix cds that were actually mixed came out) and apart from a few good blends (the new beat under plasticians intensive snare is a lot better than the original) but i really dont like a lot of the tracks, esp the dubstep ones which seem very dull. its also a bit of a 'banger after banger' cd. wouldnt mind something a bit less obvious.

still listening to mp3s of grime pirate shows, though am losing a bit of interest at this point, bit disheartening really... mainly just old stuff that im returning to with fresh ears, like old isley brothers, ohio players, old hip hop like biz markie, and a good punk 2cd comp that goes with that punk coffeetable book from a few years back. some enforcers cds too (some of that sonar circle stuff is blinding).
 
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