quoted 3 lines To be truthful, Tricky talks a lot of sh*t. Carl Craig called Tricky out on
> To be truthful, Tricky talks a lot of sh*t. Carl Craig called Tricky out on
> this in an issue of Mondo 2000. It was right on the money and
> I'll post it later. quoted 42 lines Is reciting old hip-hop lyrics (Lyrics of Fury, Black
> Is reciting old hip-hop lyrics (Lyrics of Fury, Black
> Steel) over hipped-up backing tracks a synthesis? Hardly. He's good but he
> is not Jesus. I think Massive Attack are a far better example of a similar
> sound (in fact, they are the originators).
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> Spooky probably spends too much thinking about what he's doing but given the
> current lack of depth in music, I can handle a bit of pretension. I think
> his recorded output is ace. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" was definitely a
> successful attempt at a synthesis of many different forms. I was hoping
> "Riddim Warfare" would use a similar "mix-tape" approach but it is still
> fantastic. I especially like his live sets.
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> >Can anyone help me out with that Tricky quote from a year or 2 ago
> >regarding Spooky? Something to the effect of "He shouldstop talking until
> >he does some tracks that just rip your head off".
> > And keep an eye out for a Tricky small club tour in November. I believe
> >he's coming through New Haven CT and Jacksonville Florida, but those are
> >the only ones I've heard about.
> > I can't decide how I like the new Spooky album. It's defintely not as
> >pretentious as his earlier efforts, but the art wank remains. Sometimes
> >his beats are great, but other times it seems like he's trying to do
> >staight hiphop or d nb and failing, ike he jst isses the point a little
> >bit. And for all his talk about combining all the music of the world, his
> >real influences are pretty obviously hiphop and the NY d nb scene, with a
> >little bit of avaant improv and jazz thrown in. Which is fine and
> >understandable, but it doesn't justify his big talk as the grand
> >synthesist. Tricky comes a lot closer than Spooky t doing that and Company
> >Flow is far more abrasive and dystopian than Spooky's Atari smart bombs and
> >"stock footage" voice samples. the man samples Sublime and Puff daddy
> >without a hint of irony, and I think there's something wrong with that.
> > But damn, Riddim Warfarre has got to be one of the best (if not the best)
> >marriages of hiphop and d n b yet. And some of the other hard jungle
> >tracks are amazing. But then he goes and ruins trhem with fucking
> >pretentious, arrogant art talk. I don't know what to think... Any other opinions?
> >
> >Sam
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