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From:
Alan R Lucas
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seeklektek
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Date:
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:45:39 -0400
Subject:
Re: [idm] the album of the year
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I have to agree with this. Awesome album. I haven't completely digested it yet, but man, even just the first track... Great great stuff. -Alan Quoting seeklektek <eclectics@comcast.net>:
quoted 37 lines For this week:> For this week: > > o9 - 'Church of the Ghetto PC' (Schematic) > > >From Schematic's site, this bit sums it up quite well: > http://schematic.net/newsF.htm > "Church of the Ghetto P.C. is an aural experience of jaw-dropping agog, > like reading a new language, a kind of graffiti action-script dedicated to > all the industrial back-alley disjecta of our Bill Gates-induced modernity. > Sharing slang with the Schematic crew, o9 can still talk minimal with the > Raster-Noton label, noise-therapy with Mego, and knows the uprock > narratives of Warp's great masters. o9's voice has the whole idiomatic > spectrum intact and yet still the gospel truth is that o9 has a vocabulary > all his own. > Nothing can prepare you for his application of shamanistic sound, those > calked beats and rhythm clusters, that catechistic technical polish that > brings beaming luster to screen-frozen darkness. Church of the Ghetto P.C. > is a stunning and convulsive ripple of deep-membrane funk and syntactical > synth notes. It's not old school, it's old testament, not high-tech, but high > > priest. It's as important as the fucking Bible. Cracking the egg code on > total beat typography, o9 has written the first hard-driven masterpiece of > this new dead-end, face-to-the-terminal century." -- Lee Henderson > > > Don't let the "Ghetto" fool ya: > there's no rapping, there're no vocals, and it's ~not~ hiphop. > > seek > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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