Re: DJ Krush

Yuuta Sasaki (utah@interlog.com)
Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:58:15 -0500

At 10:04 PM 12/7/95 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
Yeah, by no means am I critical of "Turntablized," as you eloquently put it,
the "stark minimalism" dead on. It criticism of this fact was levelled by
some buds of mine that are into all this post-Nirvana poppy grunge crap anyway.

I may be off base here, but if you mean Rakim as in "Eric B. & Rakim," yeah
that would be an awesome pairing. What happened to those two anyway, I
remember them having an album out around '92, then nothing.

NT-This really, I mena REALLY, has nothing to do with acid jazz, but if any
of you got Windows 95 or were smart/cheap and copied it off a friend (guess
which catagory I'm in) then I got a vaguely useful tip: if you ever have to
re-start your computer, then like normal click the "shut down" icon and
click on "Restart the computer?", then as you click on "yes" hold the shift
key down. It'll speed things along emmensely. Being virtually computer
illerate beyond basic tasks, I thought it was neat anyway. If I wasted a
few seconds of your material existence, apologies. Cheers.

@@:-Q yuuta sasaki
utah@interlog.com