I care Craig; that one's on my short list of classic hip-hop to get. I have to get on the Guvera thing, but it doesn't like my browser, which means fiddling with a new browser, which is a pain in the ass on my ancient computer.
amclark2 - You're why I said 'most'. As well as kargatron. Have you tried Guvera with the new site? Seems odd that there would be browser issues. This week I've snagged that one, Digible Planets' debut, and Genius/GZA's Liquid Swords. I'm loving having Guvera back.
I'm interested in whatever people play, Craig, as it has led me to 'new' musical interests. I admit that hip-hop is not one of my current music tastes, but it might eventually come. I have been listening to Will.i.am/Blacl Eyed Peas recently, which is getting me closer!! Any suggestions???? One of the great things about emusers is that we are not 'snobby' about what people listen to.
That's a tough one Greg, as there is a pretty wide spectrum to hip hop. Based on your enjoyment of jazz, though, I'd recommend trying out A Tribe Called Quest. They use a lot of jazz samples and their flow often feels a bit like a jazz solo. I'd start with the album Low End Theory.
@ Craig; I tried to go to the new Guvera, and it said my browser was too old. I'm using some version of IE; maybe the earliest version to have tabs? I don't know, but it's working so I don't want to mess with it.
@greg: I saw you spin the Cherry Thing album, which has a cover of Accordian from MF DOOM and Madlib's Madvillain album, which I think would be a great place to start out with hip-hop. See if you can find it on Spotify.
@Craig, well, I care that it makes you happy and also that it gets posted. It's just not possible to pursue every direction that gets posted here, but I do periodically take at least a streaming foray into the genres folk post here that I don't generally buy. And I do have some hip hop - certainly not one of the larger folders on the drive, but still...
- "What if the star baby at the end of '2001: A Space Odyssey' was the product of Thom Yorke and Roger Waters? Orbit Service at your service. Wish you were here... An altruistic dark side of the moon proposition, Eta Carinae is a star 120-150 times the size of our own sun that lies a mere 7000+ light years from this island Earth. Discovered by no less than Edmond Halley his bad self in the late 17th century, Eta Carinae has been observed to fluctuate between telescopic and naked eye proportions over the past 3 centuries. Eta Carinae is in the last throes of its long life, with only about another 100,000 or so years to go before a likely supernova. It seems fitting that one of the most majestic and awesome of the celestial bodies should be serenaded by someone. Orbit Service have certainly taken space, the atom mother, to heart in this progressive ode. And like the star in their eyes the album expands and contracts from white hot to blue cool. The resultant cosmic astro-dirge howls in a bubbly flurry of electro-buzz and slowly pulsing drumbeats. Vocal whispers rise into muted wails, pushing against the very fabric of firmament itself before being drawn back into the gaseous miasma of the star-field. Violence and silence interlaced, as in the life of a sun. Or in the life of a son. The lyrics cast shadows on the stuff of terra firma and of the heart as well, making this just as much about inner space. Orbit Service's cris de coeur is a shaded psychedelic parallectrogram that almost answers the question: what if the star baby at the end of '2001: A Space Odyssey' was the product of Thom York and Roger Waters?. Orbit Service at your service. Wish you were here..."
- Beta-lactam Ring Recordings 2006
New collaborative release from Wil Bolton and Tarl Broad-Ashman. 3" CD release, just got it in the mail. Gorgeous drone full of glory and motion - spent half the evening with it on repeat. A small treasure.
From 7-Dig, via the cheap box set thread. Big thanks to Doofy for pointing this one out, I have thoroughly enjoyed listening through it (or nearly so, a few tracks to go yet).
I was a little hesitant about this, expecting something like late Coltrane, which, if I'm honest I sometimes find difficult, but this is much easier on my ears. 2 tracks from Guvera, if anyone's interested.
Thanks Guvera, and thanks to all the Sanders boosters out there too!
Eta: ok; it builds into something a bit more difficult than where it starts out, but I'm still enjoying it very much.
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Continuing my play of Nat Birchall albums today
I care Craig; that one's on my short list of classic hip-hop to get. I have to get on the Guvera thing, but it doesn't like my browser, which means fiddling with a new browser, which is a pain in the ass on my ancient computer.
amclark2 - You're why I said 'most'. As well as kargatron. Have you tried Guvera with the new site? Seems odd that there would be browser issues. This week I've snagged that one, Digible Planets' debut, and Genius/GZA's Liquid Swords. I'm loving having Guvera back.
Craig
Greg: it wasn't entirely selfless, but it did seem you post was about to fall into oblivion.
Craig
@ Craig; I tried to go to the new Guvera, and it said my browser was too old. I'm using some version of IE; maybe the earliest version to have tabs? I don't know, but it's working so I don't want to mess with it.
@greg: I saw you spin the Cherry Thing album, which has a cover of Accordian from MF DOOM and Madlib's Madvillain album, which I think would be a great place to start out with hip-hop. See if you can find it on Spotify.
Norscq -Gelatinosa Substancia (OS.029)
NP:
This takes me back.
Also found this while looking for cover art:
ESC ?? - BLACK HORSE
I've listened to this four times today. it's awesome.
Wil & Tarl - Angel in the House
New collaborative release from Wil Bolton and Tarl Broad-Ashman. 3" CD release, just got it in the mail. Gorgeous drone full of glory and motion - spent half the evening with it on repeat. A small treasure.
Seduced by BT's enthusiasm...aaaannnnd...yes, this is fun. Downloading now. Thanks, BT!
- Info
I do not think I have listened to this since college....
Thanks to Guvera.
A few good tracks in here, but I'm finding a lot of it just anodyne, kind of tedious.
Finally settled on something at Guvera.
ETA: I should have listened to this first--it skips all over the place. Very disappointing, although the music sounds great.
From 7-Dig, via the cheap box set thread. Big thanks to Doofy for pointing this one out, I have thoroughly enjoyed listening through it (or nearly so, a few tracks to go yet).
I was a little hesitant about this, expecting something like late Coltrane, which, if I'm honest I sometimes find difficult, but this is much easier on my ears. 2 tracks from Guvera, if anyone's interested.
Thanks Guvera, and thanks to all the Sanders boosters out there too!
Eta: ok; it builds into something a bit more difficult than where it starts out, but I'm still enjoying it very much.