Adult Swim, the nation's leading purveyors of Strattera - supressing animated comedy programs, has dipped a toe or two into the indie talent pool of late, what with the DangerDoom project, indie-heavy Aqua Teen Hunger Force flick soundtrack, and partnerships with the likes of Stones Throw and Chocolate Industries. Adult Swim is offering Warm & Scratchy, a downloadable album of new and/or exclusive and/or rare and, best of all, FREE tracks from some of indie's biggest artists. The Rapture, TV on the Radio, Les Fav Fav, Liars, Broken Social Scene, Jesu, Fennesz, and the Good, the Bad, and the Queen all contribute. Could this generosity be a ploy to stir up promotion for a new show teeming with geometrically-shaped characters, odd voices, and non sequiturs? If so, note to Adult Swim: the "____ & Scratchy" name is, in a meta sort of way, already taken.
Warm & Scratchy:
01 TV on the Radio - Me-I 02 The Raveonettes - Dead Sound 03 Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian 04 The Rapture - Crimson Red 05 120 Days - Justine 06 Broken Social Scene - Canada Vs. America 07 SOUND Team - Color of the Love You Have 08 The Good, The Bad and The Queen - The Bunting Song (acoustic) 09 The Brother Kite - Half Century 10 Jesu - Silver (original beats) 11 Amusement Parks on Fire - Back to Flash 12 Asobi Seksu - Stay Awake 13 Fennesz - Winter 14 Liars - Sunset Rodeo
The record is a beautiful interlacement of balmy soul, recorded right on the heels of MarvinGaye'sI Want You album, which was conceived and written by LW, yet assumed by MG. For this set, LW creates a auditory impression reminiscent of I Want You forging smooth keyboards with artfulinferring of electro-funk, the amalgamationconverges with LW’s sweetly warming (sounds like a job for Cam'ron's, "No Homo" verifier) vocals. This original version of Comfort was also performed by MG on I Want You.
In 2003, J Dilla was better known as Jay Dee, a Detroit producer who shunned publicity but was widely respected in hip-hop; Madlib was an up-and-coming L.A. producer making a name for himself with his wild diversity, from rap (Quasimoto) to electronic jazz (Yesterdays New Quintet) to remixes (Shades of Blue (Blue Note, 2003)). At the time of Champion Sound's original release in late 2003, J Dilla and Madlib had never been photographed together or appeared as a group in public. In the years that followed, this changed drastically – after Dilla's move to Los Angeles, the two worked together, communicated through hip-hop beat tapes, and toured together as Jaylib. Madlib's profile rose with his MF DOOM-collab Madvillain (soundscan 93k). J Dilla, though dealing with a serious illness, continued crafting material for artists such as Common and Busta Rhymes while working on a wealth of solo material. Dilla's final albums – Donuts (Stones Throw, 2006), The Shining (BBE, 2006) – along with the re-issue of Ruff Draft (Stones Throw, 2007) have introduced his name and music to countless new fans while publications from The Source to Rolling Stone paid respect to his musical genius. Many felt that Champion Sound wasn't given the attention it deserved when it was originally released. In preparing the album for reissue with b-sides, instrumentals, and later photos of the group, Madlib quietly presented the label with a collection of new Jaylib remixes. These 9 remixes, together with b-sides and the instrumentals - 43 tracks in all - are collected in this deluxe 2-CD set, selling for the same price as the original Champion Sound CD, delayed in the pressing, slated for June 12, 2007, are collected here together for the first time in this deluxe 2-CD set.
Track List: Disc 1: 1. L.A. to Detroit 2. McNasty Filth, feat. Frank-n-Dank 3. Nowadayz 4. Champion Sound 5. The Red 6. Heavy 7. Raw Shit, feat. TalibKweli 8. The Official 9. The Heist 10. The Mission 11. React, feat. Quasimoto 12. Strapped, feat. GuiltySimpson 13. Strip Club 14. The Exclusive, feat. Percee P 15. Survival Test 16. Starz 17. No Games 18. Raw Addict - Prev. Unreleased on CD 19. Pillz - Bonus Track
Disc 2: 1-9 Prev. Unreleased 10-24 Prev. Unreleased on CD 1. Da Rawkus (Sir Bang Version) 2. The Official (Rap Circle Mix) 3. Heavy (Chronic Mix) 4. Optimos for Dilla (Interlude) 5. Survival Test (Rasta Dub Remix) 6. Champion Sound (Remix) 7. The Mission (Stringed Out Mix) 8. One for Dilla (Interlude) 9. Strapped (Four-4 Mix) 10. McNasty Filth (Instrumental) 11. Nowadayz (Instrumental) 12. Champion Sound (Instrumental) 13. The Red (Instrumental) 14. Heavy (Instrumental) 15. Raw Shit (Instrumental) 16. The Official (Instrumental) 17. The Heist (Instrumental) 18. The Mission (Instrumental) 19. React (Instrumental) 20. Strapped (Instrumental) 21. Strip Club (Instrumental) 22. The Exclusive (Instrumental) 23. Survival Test (Instrumental) 24. Starz (Instrumental)
Play “The Message” courtesy of the Analog Giant and unbosom where you can still get a copy of the original 2003 release (sans remixes).
Little Brother the duo (rappers only), a refashioned version of LittleBrother the trio (rappers + 9th Wonder = rapper’s delight) is not “evolution” as Phonte Coleman asserted. I suggest that the duo is delving into a hurried lollipop (radio-ready) banality. I salute to their group death that their trio catalog is invaluable and their dissolution has not been idle.
Why did you deem it necessary to return to the duel this year? Honestly man, I wasn’t even gonna enter this Duel. But on the day of the contest, Financial Aid fronted on my refund check and it pissed me off. So I entered at the last minute out of anger, you know. I guess it helped (laughs).
During the rap battle with MC Keyshawn the topic switches to: "If I Was a Penis" and Phonte delivers: "You don’t understand my onomatopoeia/ If I was a dick/ I’d squirt in your face/ and give you gonorrhea." …Phonte got his money. Relative Phonte’s A-Ha's pop classic Take On Me with help from Carlitta Durand courtesy of Spine Magazine when asked: “Who influences your music?” Mr. Coleman answered: Back in the day it was artists like Run D.M.C. and Big Daddy Kane, but now it’s cats like Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def and The Roots ... and a lot of rock and alternative groups like Radiohead, Dave Matthews and Portishead.
Team America’sclimaticmonologue comes as an aproposparodisticproffering relative Bush's geopolitical rationale: “There’s a difference between di<%s and a$$holes. Because there are terrorists – a$$holes – you’ve got to have di<%s, people who hunt down terrorists. Di<%s are bad, and it sucks to be a di<%, but it’s way worse to be an a$$hole, and because there are a$$holes, we need di<%s. So shut the fu<% up, all you pu$$ies!”
Erykah Badu & Madlib have been in the studio recently; however, this track wasn't made for a particular album. Erykah doesn't know how it got out and Madlib can't revive when it was made.
Jim told Miss Info, “on the record,” that he and the whole rest of the Diplomats crew, or the Dipset 300 as he put it….that they are collectively “putting Cam’ron on punishment.”
Malik, Joe, Ahmad, Monk & Otis have called it quits. The last YNQ record, Otis Jackson's solo joint "Jewelz EP" will drop on vinyl in June. In July, the Yesterdays Universe album will feature the next phase in the YNQ universe: 10 new groups produced by Madlib, all of whom will have records released in the next 12 months. Check out "Free Son" from the Yesterdays Universe album at Stones Throw's page on Uber.
*Cam'ron songs and 50 Cent's rumored cover: "Courtesy Curtis" to Get Right Music
I first discovered Milton Nascimento at Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St., ArlingtonVa.22201 back in the mid-90’s. I was working part-time as a teacher’s-assistant at the YMCAChildCareDevelopmentCenter, a preschool, and Central Library was within walking distance. I prosaically borrowed albums, CD formatted, by unbeknownst artist and serendipitously checked-out one of Milton’s albums. My first listen through my last, spanning at least 12 years, have always been with delectation.
Milton Nascimento was born in Rio. Nascimento’s White adoptive parents brought him to Tres Pontas, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, when he was two. His mother sang in a choir and at local music festivals, often accompanied by Milton. Nascimento's father was an electronics tinkerer, math teacher, and tersely ran a local radio station where a young Milton sporadically worked as a DJ. He later began singing as a teenager. When he was 19, Nascimento moved to the capital Belo Horizonte and began singing wherever and whenever the occasion afforded. MN finally caught a break when the pop singer Elis Regina recorded one of his songs, "Canção do Sal," in 1966. Regina got him a showcase on a popular Brazilian TV program, and after performing at Brazil's International Song Festival the following year, his career was launched. Courage is Milton Nascimento's first album for North American ears, recorded at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey under the watchful eye and discerning ear of Creed Taylor, is a masterpiece, a gorgeously executed tour through his early songs. Backed beautifully by Eumir Deodato's lush orchestrations and a clutch of sidemen from the Taylor stable (including Herbie Hancock, Airto Moreira, and Hubert Laws). Courage finds Nascimento at a time before tropicalismo, when he latched onto the tail end of the bossa nova movement and quickly became one of its most inspired performers and songwriters.
Out of respect for Reynaldo Ojeda* pull up a prosthetic fork-shaped abutment and let the music galvanize you to enthrallment.
Cold off the presses comes excerpts from LA Times, March 19, 2007, article: Obama the 'Magic Negro' by David Ehrenstein: …it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro." The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro. He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest. As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic." …most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in... Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
brackish•\BRACK-ish\ •adjective *1: somewhat salty 2a: not appealing to the taste b: repulsive
Example Sentence: Water is often brackish and undrinkable at points where freshwater rivers flow into the sea.
Did you know? When the word "brackish" first appeared in English in the 1500s, it simply meant "salty," as did its Dutch ancestor "brak." Then, as now, brackish water could simply be a mixture of saltwater and freshwater. Since that time, however, "brackish" has developed the additional meanings of "unpalatable" or "distasteful" - presumably because of the undrinkable quality of saltwater. "The brackish water that we drink / Creeps with a loathsome slime, / And the bitter bread they weigh in scales / Is full of chalk and lime." As this use from Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" illustrates, brackish water can also include things other than salt that make it unpleasant to drink.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
*I metJohn "Ecstasy" Fletcher of Whodini in Harlem years ago (~1998) at a 106 and Park outdoor concert a week after they performed at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington DC, which I also attended. While talking with Ecstasy I mentioned that I attended their last performance as mentioned in the latter. Additionally, I praised Whodini's past work and lauded Larry Smiththeir producer for theirBack In Black (Jive, 1986) album which featured: "Funky Beat"(co-produced by Whodini & Carter, D.Hutchins - whom I know nothing about), "One Love", "I'm A Ho" (co-produced byJalil Hutchins of Whodini) and "Echo Scratch", (my favorite Whodini non-commercial release!)", who learned to play bass by listening to the late James Brown. During my diatribe Ecstacy eyes dilated, his head nodded and he articulated, "ok, Ok, OK!" repeatedly - paralanguageprofferringexpositional respect relative my Whodini-based factualness.
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The group name Alphabet Soup is explained as follows:
The communicative rudiments of language starts with the alphabet. The alphabet is a set of letters and/or other characters written or otherwise (oral-tradition, etc.) arranged in a customary order to convey knowledge or inform. The "Soup" was our music. Together the compliment of both words (alphabet) and music rendered the EP: Sunny Day In Harlem.
Holden Caulfield is a fictional character created by J. D. Salinger. Holden is the teenage protagonist of Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye ; Holden also appears in some of Salinger's other literary works.
Physically, Holden is gangly and tall. He is also described as having several gray hairs on the right side of his head. These two qualities contribute to Caulfield's appearing to be older than his age, yet his mannerisms and behavior contradict that impression. One of Caulfield's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for "phony" human qualities. Qualities such as narcissism, hypocrisy, and superficiality embody Holden's concept of phoniness; and, unfortunately, Holden is adept at realizing these qualities in other people. This serves to bolster Holden's cynicism and consequently contributes to his mistrust of other people. Interestingly, despite Holden's strong disdain for phony qualities, he exhibits some of the qualities that he abhors, thereby making him a somewhat tragic character.
Caulfield is the second of four children, with two brothers, D.B. and Allie, and one sister, Phoebe. (There is also a second sister, Viola, who is briefly mentioned in the short story "I'm Crazy," but is never referred to again.) Allie is deceased at the time of The Catcher in the Rye. Their parents are left unnamed in Salinger's works.
Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Caulfield looks down upon the elite world he occupies. He questions the values of his class and society and sometimes appears to oppose conventions merely for the sake of opposition. He is widely considered to be the template for the "angry young man" archetype.
Accordingly, my man "2-Liter" considers my acerbic critiques a "hate" of everything and my "can't fuck with me B!!!" dancing rants didn't/ don't exactly raise the bar thusly "2-Liter" has thereupon labeled me the consummate Holden Caulfield of the east-coast.
GED
To MC/Emcee is to move the crowd through master of ceremony microphone control.
GED is a MC/Emcee. GED is an abbreviation for Gorilla Ed. GED has previously performed under following names: "Nubian", “Low Key”, “Ed Lowe”, “Lowe” and currently Gorilla Ed/GED
GED is, most recently, featured on the first two mixtapes of the Shine Mixtape/ XM 66 Raw series: Volume 1, hosted by Jim Jones and Nore and Volume 2, hosted by Nas and Swizz Beats.
