Re: DJ Krush

Matthew Robert Chicoine (scooby@umich.edu)
Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:04:10 -0500 (EST)


Actually, although CLs rhymes are pretty average, I thought Krush needed
to hook up with some lyrical support. The roots track is the shit! The
voices are so smoothed-out that they just blend into the track. I was
thinking Krush should start producing some shit for lyricists. Check this
idea for a pair- Krush and Rakim. What do you think. Rakim's shit, to me
at least, is real underrated. What ever happened to that fool? His voice
was smoother than peanut butter.
But then on the other hand, Krush's stuff can stand alone as
well. Like Turntablized, yeah, it would have benefited from a few lyrics,
but the beauty of the album was its stark minimalism. Your right, the
tracks just sort of start and end, but that's what I like. Its not
commanding your attention, it just sort of catapults you into a different
mindstate. Large-ass beats, some real wacked out samples, spooky shit. I
know that me and my crew sat around for months blunted out saying shit
like, "what's that sample?", oh, its definitely a fuzzed-out guitar.",
"Nah, its a distorted chainsaw." "Nah, that's a sitar with some effects."
But whatever, to each his own.
Basically, Krush is the shit, nuff said. I'm out. Peace-
Bubblicious

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Yuuta Sasaki wrote:

> At 10:24 AM 12/5/95 -0500, you wrote:
> >For what it's worth, I hated "Krush" but I loved "Turntablized." I liked
> >the darkness and dirty sound of Turntablized, but found "Krush" to be a
> >little too formulaic and a little too consciously acid jazz: A Rhythm +
> >Some Scratching + A Girl Singing + A Brass Instrument. Nothing wrong with
> >this, just nothing innovative.
> >
> >On Mon, 4 Dec 1995 WOOLCOTT@ca.cch.com wrote:
> >
> >> Want to add some DJ Krush to my listening potential. I've read the good
> Mo'Wax
> >> discograghy which says that "Turntablized" was a disappointment to many. But
> >> how does the debut album "Krush" compare with the new release "Meiso" [sp?].
> >> I'd like to know. Sure this has been discussed before, but a few minutes
> of yourlife could make hours of mine more enjoyable. How's that for acid-jazz?
> >>
> >> David
>
> I tend to agree with your assessment of the two records. When I got "Krush"
> a few months back, I couldn't stand the thing, it seemed so conventionally
> "acid jazz." Played it again recently and it doesn't seem as bad as I
> remember it to be, still not exceptional, but not bad either. Folks I know
> didn't seem to like "Turntablized" as much it though, (as they describe it)
> "a bunch of tracks where a beat starts up, one or two found-sounds start
> looping, then it ends and the next one starts" - a fair enough ostensive
> description but, man, blaring out of my stereo or especially in my 6cheapo
> car with its even more cheapo speaker6s. I got my speakers at some
> electronics surplus place, the effect is incredibly (often annoyingly) great
> treble sound, but virutally no bass. With all the percussive beats and
> sounds on "Turntablized," it is a quite the wicked collection to listen to
> driving around.
>
> Is it just me, or did anyone else find that the rap vocals on "Meiso"
> detracted from an otherwise great album. I dunno, that sort of "hard
> rhymes" provided by Guru and CL Smooth really ruined it for me. Now, if
> Krush had got Rza, The Genius or any of the Wu providing the vocals, hell,
> that'd something else. "Duality" is a great track but-maybe my disdain for
> the vocals is clouding my judgement-but "Turntablized" is, in my humble
> opinion, superior.
>
> NT - Speaking about things Wu, The Dirty Ol' Bastard rules! Has anyone else
> had the misfortune of channel-surfing and coming across that new(?) Mariah
> Carey video. Crap videao for a crap song but that bit at the beginning "New
> Jersey are ya in the house, West Coast are ya in the house, Japan are ya in
> the house, etc." and that middle bit where the Dirty One gets that moptop
> wig and drools on about the Voice-Which-Makes-Roseanne's Singing-Appealing.
> That man is a genius. Cheers.
>
>
> @@:-Q Yuuta Sasaki
> utah@interlog.com
>
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