now everybody sing ….close up eyes ( close up eyes!)
Thanks Dan. 

I’m all for oiled up muscles, sepia tone and tatts, but when exactly did Hip Hop go Pop?

Lil Wayne popped up at The Roots Miami gig yesterday. Check out ?uestlove’s ‘a milli’ while drumming. All very impressive, but I’m still left wondering:

Has Hip Hop gone pop? 

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The October Long Weekend is the unofficial start of summer. What started out as a cruisey mix for headphone space on the beach quickly disintegrated into big tunes of the summer. This edition didn’t follow the script at all, and the play list developed on the fly. I think it went pretty well except for that one mix-in towards the end. But I’m sure you’ll forgive me that, eh?

Enjoy,

G

I’ve mentioned the guys over at Schitz Poppinov before. Their music blog is one of the best Ive come across, and is an excellant source of new choice chewns. But they like to take a sideways glance at things every now and then. Whether it be a sideswipe at Gene Simmonds, how cool Australian music is right now, or to give a history lesson.

Trevor Horn (sic) was one of the originators of the dynamic 12-inch remixes which were the best at the time … and still are the best. Most 12-inch remixes back then were either just extended verions of original songs and/or default disco/DJ arrangments which were too boring to listen to in an of themselves.

Trevor Horn’s 12-inch remixes were uniquely long (anywhere from 8 to 13 minutes in duration) and told stories which took the listeners through long instrumental journeys at the begenning of tracks until the climax is reached (around the 5/6 or 7 minute mark). After the climax, the original or alternate full vocal version of the track takes over from that point on to the end, lasting additional 3.5 to 5 minutes in length.

Like a novel, each of Horn’s remixes starts off with the long RISE to hit the CLIMAX at the top. Once climax is reached, the track would SUSTAIN the music with the original/alternate vocal version until it DECAYS and fades out in the end. Mostly importantly, it was the rolling basslines which DRIVE the listener (in the passenger seat) from begenning to end. 

They even knocked up a nice little graph for us more graphically literate.

For the traditionally literate, read more here. And remember to rage hard.

Clement Picon wins Radioheads ‘Reckoner’ Video competition with this beautiful and evocative short.