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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
ohh, I got some other night slugs stuff that kills (Mosca's SQUARE ONE was on constant play a few months back), but haven't heard that comp. Getting it right now, you've been dead-on with your reccomendations so I pretty much always stop everything to check out whatever you throw my way.. Really appreciate it, dude.
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you're welcome ! i hope you'll like it. some of those synths as cheap as fuck but just irresistible. when the beat drops on lil silva's golds 2 get i'm always spastic. and kingdom's bust broke fucking slay. and wut obviously. and jacques greene's track is just excellent. egyptrixx delivers. not to talk about l-vis 1990. simply perfect.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Hey foix, I've asked before, but where do you find your music?! I check out RESIDENT ADVISOR about once a month, I don't always agree with their reviews, the actual opinions expressed in them, but their reviews are well written and articulate enough to at least describe the stuff I'm going to hear. So I check them out just to see if there's anything interesting.
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i find it pretty much everywhere. resident advisor is definitely a source, though i do not necessarily agree with their reviews either, i'll just check the names that sound interesting to me. last.fm is still my main source for music obviously. dubstepforum is also a good point... as well as xlr8r. podcasts and mixes are obviously a good way to find about new artists.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
BTW, this terror danjah album "undeniable" strikes again, as far as "albums with vocals" go. I really really really don't like just about any of the vocals on the album (lots of poor rapping, like The Streets but even more arhythmic and downright boring), but the MUSIC is so goddamned brilliant. Vocals only take up about 18 minutes of the album, but the vocal songs are the longest on the album. I just flat-out don't understand why these brilliant musicians feel the need to get every random rapper they're friends with, awkwardly and arhythmically "rap" over top of their brilliant compositions. There are plenty of inventive and interesting things a good producer can do with vocals; hell, take a few lines out and make 'em a hook, have 'em repeat a bunch, fuck with them until they're unrecognizable... you could make a guy's vocals so chopped up and insane that it matches the beat perfectly... "yo yo yo hello hello got multiple tongues so you don't know where to look this ain't no 4/4 don't listen for da hook yo" you know? But instead of it going from there, cut up the yo yos and make em wonky as fukk, have the "4/4" line cleverly stutter on an actual 4/4 beat and then break apart, maybe overdub yourself going "5/4" and then "7/4" as the music breaks apart. I dunno, I get little ideas all the time of weird shit to do, I just don't understand how music can be so intelligent and intricate but then you got some guy performing vocal disarhea on the mic.
Anyway thanks for the reccomends, FXXXX!
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hmm, i don't know, i'm into some of the vocal tracks on that lp - though "story ending" for instance is abysmal -, but then again i have no problem with rapping over the tracks in general so that might explain it. and the best track on the album is definitely s.o.s. which is 8 minutes of pure instrumental bliss. but the vocals could have been done better, that's for sure. now terror danjah has always been a force in grime, so i guess it makes sense for him to include a few mcs in his tracks...
now that, for instance, is a fucking great track with mcs imo :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoTkDUcL3dI
the way the rap kicks in along with the drop just kills me eveytime. frenetic, hypnotic, violent. it just makes the song even greater, it does not feel like some useless addition to the track
in another style :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmrnhU7RpQ fucking kills me as well anytime (though the track was initially centered around the vocal so i guess it makes sense).
personally, i feel vocals can either work or not... but i'm not against a grime mc spitting all over the track.