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From:
Alex Reynolds
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Tue, 9 May 2000 08:57:49 -0400
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[idm] rampart v2
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quoted 2 lines i saw a kid606/? in a white sleeve today and didn't know whether or not>i saw a kid606/? in a white sleeve today and didn't know whether or not >i should've bought it. can anyone help?
if yer talking about kid606's nwa 'straight outta compton'/tigerboy remix single, here's my take. much like pete townsend's 'secondhand love' on 'white city', nwa's 's.o.c.' was a real, angry, in-your-face statement about 80s race relations that you have to play loud to obtain full enjoyment. despite the vinyl's design (white on the outside, black on the inside... get it?) i just don't feel the same adrenalin or mental rush listening to this remix. it sounds like a dsp'ed mash of samples, stopping and restarting -- there is no semblance of flow or the appearance of a whole track here; no point or direction, just experimental noodling. imho, it seems like depedro totally sucked the life out of the original. if it is intended a take on imitation and theft of black culture, well, it works. otherwise, perhaps it is better to give your money towards something more original, such as schematic's 'lily of the valley'. back to you, alex Alex Reynolds SAS Computing / Biology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 V +1 215 573.2818 / F +1 215 898.8780 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org