quoted 13 lines Supposedly it's one of Mike P.'s ex-roommates.>>Supposedly it's one of Mike P.'s ex-roommates.
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>After several careful listens to the Jega/Skam I'm starting to
>entertain some musical detective instincts...I might go so far
>as to point the finger at Mike P. himself. I know Greg(3) asked
>us to identify the "u-ziq sample" (from Mu-Ziq VS. The Auteurs?)
>but isn't this whole SKAM shrouded in secrecy?
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>Things to think about...
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>1. Wasn't Mike P. living @ home? (If not, where was his flat?)
>2. A dedication to "mother"?
>3. THAT DISTORTION!
i've considered this possibility, too. some of the percussive and melodic
interplay of his mu-ziq and kid spatula stuff is there, and we know mike
can be funky when he wants to...i've come to the conclusion, tho, that it's
too "deep" sounding to be mike. by that i don't mean mike is shallow, i
just mean many of the melodies and compositional dynamics are very serious
sounding, whereas mike's stuff is usually pretty light and tongue-in-cheek
(ok "in with the in" and "bluette" are pretty silly)...i could be wrong, of
course, and this could be precisely what skam-as-front wants me to think
(geez, they've already won!). skam could also be an outlet for some of
these artists to experiment with other styles, but my gut feeling (and the
fact that freeform is a demonstrably real person) is that jega mike.
that little modal melody toward the end of "norton midgate" does sound a
bit like the quick little theme in the latter's half of afx's "children
talking," tho...
sc, paranoid but not delusional
onnow: channel one : technicolor (metroplex), in the mix...