maybe "dubby" wasn't the best choice of words; that was just a first
impression. i was referring to the general feel of the beats having extra
space between them, or being more laid-back and somehow slightly
submerged-sounding.... never mind, really, cos i have no idea how to talk
about music.... =)
this is the first PBO i've heard, and it's definitely lacking in the
hip-hop area, but that's OK with me.
ks
At 04:45 PM 1/22/00 , Andrew Schrock wrote:
quoted 30 lines On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Kevin Sample wrote:>On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Kevin Sample wrote:
> > so WHAT didn't you like about "day"? i just got it and find it rather
> > interesting--nicely downtempo and slightly dubby, but perhaps that's just
> > the difference in our tastes....
>
>I just pulled it out to figure out exactly what I don't like about it.
>
>It's definitely less chocolate industries and more SKAM. The pieces don't
>have his traditional hip-hop flow to them, and the melodies (more just
>melodic interjections) don't help the songs. The beats are fairly weak
>compared to his other schematic/choc.ind. EPs. It sounds like he tried to
>get out of the 4/4 hip-hop mold he built for himself by trying to make
>his beats more abstract (or sumpthin'), but he changed his sound in a way
>that doesn't particularly turn me on. But listen for yourself, as always
>YYMV!
>
>BTW, What's "dubby" about this album? (not to resurrect the recent "dub"
>thread :)
>
>Andrew
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