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Wowie. This is a real treat. Thanks!

Comes from a Houston hip hop DJ named DJ Screw who used to do "Screwed" mixtapes where he would slow the tracks down to an extreme degree, producing a trippy, sludgy sound. He would also do edits to the tracks, cutting them to repeat syllables and chop up the rhythm. From DJ Screw's style comes...

"SCREWSTEP"

The New York Times + MTV = a far cry from Pitchfork. If Chopped and Screwed now passes for mainstream pop that plays to the MTV target demographic, or, alternately, gets covered in the New York Times (and runs next to a piece on Jazz at Lincoln Center), then I say a tectonic shift (albeit a...

it's kinda like reading about grime in the new yorker. glad to see real underground music getting recognized, but right surprised hearing it get that sorta mainstream press. hey power to the times having the guts to cover houston and screw (and cover it well). i get the distinct impression that...

There's something amiss in the universe if the "Gray Lady" (the NY Times) has tuned into the sludged weirdness of Houston hip hop and in particular DJ Screw's invention of the "screwed and chopped" sound (slowing the beats waaaay down and chopping them up).... Check it...

Not to be a hater but Dinesh is a shit promoter and 90% of his parties that I've been to have been completely without vibe. He's too slick for grime, and watching his yuppy crowd pretend that they're feeling grime is a painful spectacle to behold.

Something came over me for a second there... :)

Didn't realize that was a Meters sample. They're from DC aren't they? Which makes the tune even more interesting because both Harrison and Amerie are from DC, and it's got a bit of that go-go flavor. I have to admit when they first started playing that tune on the radio I thought it was J-Lo...

Free yourself of the guilt - this song is bonkers... Rich Harrison kills on production.

black country I think there may be something to this. In the South and elsewhere through the second half of the 20th century, the ghettoization of formerly rural communities and small cities (Virginia Beach, Columbia South Carolina, Decatur Georgia, Indian reservations in the midwest) also...

Come on man, ya gotta get with the times. The new shit is the iced out scrolling programmable LCD belt buckle! ;) My faves for the moment: - That Amerie track - Yin Yang Twins Whisper Track - New Clipse Re-Up Boys tune - Loefah Monsoon rmx - Loefah Crackbong rmx - Sunship ft. Warrior Queen...

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why has folk latched onto electronica? Conversely, has anyone noticed the reverse happening?... Folk(ish) artists going electronic. I'm thinking things like The Album Leaf, Carpark Records, etc. Like the singer/songwriter combination of voice and acoustic guitar, looking for inspiration, has...

Big. The Mystikz and Loefah have done amazing things for dubstep in the past year. I'd love to catch this one but unfortunately it's not in the cards.

No no, that sounds more like the They Might Be Giants Thread! Does Metallica every really go out of style? :cool:

Re: 50 So OTM. Same goes for Disco Inferno I think. I don't know what it is about 50. When you try and listen to his music critically it's difficult to put your finger on anything very exciting about it. But in a social context, whether at a party or blasting out of a car's system, or in a...

yea megadeth never really lived up to their legend. they're much better in ringtone form... going back to the absence of bass on metallica recordings, i can't say it ever bothered me because the natural context for listening to metal (back in middle school days) was always my little bedside...

ahh, those moments seem to have been more frequent than usual lately... most recently upon hearing this completely fantastic screwed and chopped version of cam'ron's "purple haze" the other night. same for loefah's amazing remix of "crackbong" by d1. on the whole the mystikz/loefah camp have...