I caught Karyn White's (?) video "I'd rather be alone" (?) on .. ack,
cough, The Box the other day. If I got that name right, this is one of
the strongest, hardest punching videos I've seen against domestic violence.
Props to her and the director for pulling that one off, and her label for
letting her....
And an anecdote:
I got Qoolmarv's mix tape ( the second one) a while back, and liked the
Common Sense tune "I used to love her" (even tho I had some problems with
the lyrics...). Anyway, since that tape was constantly in my walkman for
a while, I got pretty familiar with that and other tunes. So it was
weird when I heard a different remix that another DJ played in a club
over here. Usually, remixes match the beats, but because of the new
off-tempo rhyme style by Common Sense (as well as Roots, OC, etc), the
rhymes don't fall exactly to tempo- but this remix had me thrown, because
it fit, but was in a completely different place in the beat. Weird.
Anwyay. I picked up the domestic relase "Give 'Em Enough Dope", which
has the track Wiseguys "Real Vibes" and I'll be damned if I don't
recognize it...... It took me a good ten minutes to figure out that this
was the tune used for the music on Qoolmarv's tape, and that the "remix"
I heard in a club over here was the original.
OK, big deal. But here's what's fucking brilliant. If you
listen to the Qoolmarv mix, or you're familiar with the Wiseguys tune,
the music changes (completely) every few bars. This is cool in the original
tune, but it *fits* with the lyrics.... -Growing up in New York: one tune
-She moves to the West coast: a different tune -She goes gangsta: a different
tune... and then the end, the "sunshine" music starts playing.....
Everytime I listen to it, it still blows me away. And even more, when
I'm just playing the Wiseguys tune, I'm "singing" along the rap
lyrics.... I guess that's just a Qoolmarv/ mix tape success story.
Which is what's irritating me about DJ Abu's tape- I don't know half the
time where one tune ends and another begins..... ;-)
Peace
Oh yeah- uh Grateful Dead? Well hell, let's discuss Led Zepplin's vlues
background. D'yer Ma'ker is pretty funky... Janis Joplin? (Anyone
remember Lesson One by the Stone Cold Boners?) But you know who *really*
was the innovator of acid jazz? PETER BROTZMAN!!!!! He put the acid
into jazz..... Yeah... (well, he did, but that's irrelavent to *this*
acid jazz, which is my point... :-))
Peace..... dude ;-)
Greg "Boyteen" Beuthin | Respect.... ___ Keep
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