Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise (w/ Lisa Gerrard) from The Blue Album (2004) /electronic/((Visible breath forces through the thickly cold mist. A glimmer of light at the edge of another world. A tapestry of blue and yellow beams, rising and falling in a rhythmic dance. Rising. Faster. A gentle tug along wistful elation. […]
My five day study sojourn in London proved very useful. I sure did a lot, much more than I usually do in the span of 5 days for sure. I went to the 276 lounge to see Luke Fair (relative to its height above the floor, they have the biggest discoball I have seen […]
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke from Since We Last Spoke (2004) /electro instrumental rock hop/((Your nervous mind wavers and jumps between the platform and the door. Ignore the constant judgement and predetermined conceits. Gather courage where you can get it, and defiance where you cannot. Purposefully stride forward and clench them in your […]
Hybrid - Finished Symphony from Wide Angle (1999) /progressive breakbeat/((Rain and thunder. Calm and intensity. Unrelenting pulse, hammering through the rich tapestry of streaking lights of yellow and red. Dwarfed beneath the majesty – an unknowable expanse reaching out of sight, into the mist, through the clouds, sparkling. Man and machine intertwined in an eternal, […]
Dear reader,Have you had anyone speak to you about doing something in “homage” to something recently? Did they pronounce the word without the H and in a French sort of manner that gave the word a nauseatingly pretentious air, complete with that grimace-inducing soft G sound? Something like Eau-m-awe-jh? Did this strike you […]
Espers - Voices from Espers (2004) /neo folk/((A moisture dew clings to withered blades of grass: shuddering, sequestered in patches, in concrete cracks of the sidewalks and curbs. A dirty plastic package husk flits and bobs in the currents of the dense breeze: colliding and scraping the rough ground, twisting, and leaping up, almost […]
Today I did a lot for not leaving my room except to relieve myself, go on a short walk (’twas a beautiful day), and get dinner. Well not really a whole lot, but more than my average have-my-soul-sucked-out-by-the-internet’s-straw-sit-in-front-of-the-computer-wasting-my-life-away day. I got Student Accounts to write me up a big fat cheque. I […]
Lyrics Born - The Last Trumpet (feat. Lateef) from Later that Day (2003) /hip hop/((“Within a political system pimped and gangsta’d out,wherein the people are the victim sheep being lead about. While the followers and the patrons of any faith outside the mainstreamare being raided, falsely painted as endangering the way things work.When all the […]
The Quannum Extravaganza! /underground hip hop/ Lyrics Born - Bad Dreams from Later that Day (2003) Maroons - Lester Hayes from Ambush, and single (2004) Gift of Gab - The Writz from Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up (2004) Lifesavas - Resist from Spirit in Stone (2003) Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics from A2G […]
Quannum. Kool Haus. Apr 12.Quannum is an underground hip hop record lable, and my favourite one at that. At least for this show, Quannum consisted of: Blackalicious (Gift of Gab produced by Chief Xcel), Latyrx (Lyrics Born, Lateef the Truthspeaker), Lifesavas (Vursatyl, Jumbo the Garbageman), plus solo performances in various capacities by […]