OK, I know, what happened to "everyday"? Here's a rash of beats I've been failing to put up over the last week or so.
RECENT BEATS
0217 : slow, housy thing, more of those synth loops, but in a sepia style ... gets gritty at the end.
0216 : Flanged, glassy synth playing very poppy random loops.
0215 : Something, fast, happy and wholesome.
0214 : This pr0n stuff's getting kitsch. Away with it, no more!
Monday, July 07, 2003
Thursday, July 03, 2003
In Jamaican dancehall, musicians and producers make beats and backing tracks (riddims) and multiple vocal artists record their own, different songs / raps over them. Is this a productive division of labour? Each riddim is tested with multiple vocals, so the right combination can be found. Or does it sap variety, all vocalists use the same pallete?
Perhaps this is the only way a poor country like Jamaica can be as musically productive as it is?
Perhaps this is the only way a poor country like Jamaica can be as musically productive as it is?
Sunday, June 29, 2003
Saturday, June 28, 2003
RECENT BEATS
Some slightly shocking sounds going on at the moment which need a bit of explanation.
Clicking the wrong radio button in my P2P file sharer one day, took me into a hitherto unexplored world of downloadable pr0n. I yield to no-one in my naivety about such things, but I was still shocked by the implied violence of it all. Short porn films gather layers of extra descriptive names, trying to "sell" themselves to the downloader much like commercial web-pages add irrelevant meta keyword tags.
Depressingly there were the internet cliches of "preteen" and "lolita". I hope this was just hype rather than reality, but it's disturbing that these are the memes that prevail in the name space.
I was more shocked by the frequency of "real rape" and "forced". Even if it's fiction, why the hell do so many people (men) seem to be getting off on this fantasy? Looks like Andrea is right, and Momus is wrong.
Weirder was the "she's my wife / girlfriend" key phrase. It's hardly likely to be true, and why would you pretend, and why would I care? OTOH go read the intro to Dworkin's "Pornography", there are some sick bastards around.
So, I offer you, in the spirit of the rather illustrative industrial music styles of my youth - and really I'm too old to be doing something this adolescent, but what the hell, on the internet no one knows you're a dog - beats 0208 and 0209 : pornography as violence against women.
I'd like to say that in reality no women were hurt in the production of these beats. But I can't because, as Dworkin says : "pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls", and no one can say if those involved were damaged. I can promise that I didn't download anything advertising violence or underage sex. All sounds are derived from movies at the "soft" end, that at least portrayed themselves as about consenting, non sado-masochist adults. The extraordinary roaring on 0208 seems to be the result of a badly connected / placed microphone, and the ferocity in 0209 has been added with the distortion effect. The scream in 0208 comes from a Llamasoft video game.
So, bad taste? Yep. Confused politics? Yep. Not what you'd expect from someone as politically correct as me? Yep. Can you explain please Phil because I think I've just lost all my respect for you? I guess the "name of art" is a lousy explanation but it's all I can offer at the moment. It sounds better than "an afternoon of prurient curiosity" anyway.
YOU MISSED 'EM
Up to 0154
LAST CHANCE
0155 : Return of the space invaders
0156 : Recommended, another of those irie, melancholic things over a swingy beat
Some slightly shocking sounds going on at the moment which need a bit of explanation.
Clicking the wrong radio button in my P2P file sharer one day, took me into a hitherto unexplored world of downloadable pr0n. I yield to no-one in my naivety about such things, but I was still shocked by the implied violence of it all. Short porn films gather layers of extra descriptive names, trying to "sell" themselves to the downloader much like commercial web-pages add irrelevant meta keyword tags.
Depressingly there were the internet cliches of "preteen" and "lolita". I hope this was just hype rather than reality, but it's disturbing that these are the memes that prevail in the name space.
I was more shocked by the frequency of "real rape" and "forced". Even if it's fiction, why the hell do so many people (men) seem to be getting off on this fantasy? Looks like Andrea is right, and Momus is wrong.
Weirder was the "she's my wife / girlfriend" key phrase. It's hardly likely to be true, and why would you pretend, and why would I care? OTOH go read the intro to Dworkin's "Pornography", there are some sick bastards around.
So, I offer you, in the spirit of the rather illustrative industrial music styles of my youth - and really I'm too old to be doing something this adolescent, but what the hell, on the internet no one knows you're a dog - beats 0208 and 0209 : pornography as violence against women.
I'd like to say that in reality no women were hurt in the production of these beats. But I can't because, as Dworkin says : "pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls", and no one can say if those involved were damaged. I can promise that I didn't download anything advertising violence or underage sex. All sounds are derived from movies at the "soft" end, that at least portrayed themselves as about consenting, non sado-masochist adults. The extraordinary roaring on 0208 seems to be the result of a badly connected / placed microphone, and the ferocity in 0209 has been added with the distortion effect. The scream in 0208 comes from a Llamasoft video game.
So, bad taste? Yep. Confused politics? Yep. Not what you'd expect from someone as politically correct as me? Yep. Can you explain please Phil because I think I've just lost all my respect for you? I guess the "name of art" is a lousy explanation but it's all I can offer at the moment. It sounds better than "an afternoon of prurient curiosity" anyway.
YOU MISSED 'EM
Up to 0154
LAST CHANCE
0155 : Return of the space invaders
0156 : Recommended, another of those irie, melancholic things over a swingy beat
Monday, June 23, 2003
Sunday, June 22, 2003
Saturday, June 21, 2003
The BBC is cool. BBC radio over the internet is essential for an ex-pat in Brazil. Now 1-Xtra has joined The Archers on regular rotation here.
TODAY'S BEAT
0204 : Starts with lush, ponderous synth. But then the rapid offbeat snares speed the whole thing up. Off pitch clinking adds an unworldy sheen.
0203 : Another rain of tinkling bells. Over a froggy kind of bass. What could you do with it? Be creative.
You missed 'em : up to 0145
Last chance saloon :
0146 : A whole lunar ecology of gloopy sounds. The Clangers mooch about as desperate radios broadcast their last.
0204 : Starts with lush, ponderous synth. But then the rapid offbeat snares speed the whole thing up. Off pitch clinking adds an unworldy sheen.
0203 : Another rain of tinkling bells. Over a froggy kind of bass. What could you do with it? Be creative.
You missed 'em : up to 0145
Last chance saloon :
0146 : A whole lunar ecology of gloopy sounds. The Clangers mooch about as desperate radios broadcast their last.
Friday, June 20, 2003
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
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