Catalog's hip hop journey

[luka]

its not even mellow lol its supposed to be haunted

 

[luka]

What do you want?

effort of course what do you think!

 

[catalog]

I'll have to listen to it again, maybe I can get something from the lyrics.

 

[thirdform]

get some student crack in salford and come back to this thread.

 

[catalog]

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]

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]

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]

its a challenge, webbie is asking you to engage very deeply and very seriously with the roots of your aversion and to see if you can work thorugh it

 

[luka]

'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

 

[vershy versh]

that "saginaw" tune version posted

Amazing tune. Never heard anything else like it, at least not in hip-hop. It's like Bela Lugosi's Dead.

 

[catalog]

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]

its a challenge, webbie is asking you to engage very deeply and very seriously with the roots of your aversion and to see if you can work thorugh it

Webbie is expanding my horizons. I'm ready for it.

 

[line b]

Amazing tune. Never heard anything else like it, at least not in hip-hop. It's like Bela Lugosi's Dead.

reminds me a little of the intro to Clan to Da Front if it was a song and not just an intro

 

[catalog]

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]

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]

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

 

[catalog]

An opportunity for idiots to school you. Get out of my face you wretch.

 

[DannyL]

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]

And the Drakeo track is a cover or reversioning of this, which is an interesting move:

 

[DannyL]

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.