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since hip hop is up for discussion thought i would mention this cd i got sent t'other week in the form of a mini review it deserves your attention various artists - musical dilemma's cd (ultimate dilemma) artist/track synopsis: the runaways make sure the rolling hip hop break gets heavy treatment from the delay box over which they layer sinister strings whilst short motifs stab out of the darkness danny breaks lets rip 'science fu pt.2',dirty electro hip hop with sledgehammer beats and bowel shaking bottom end string soaked drum n bass , riding on mutant beats with the computer funk soul of detroit on 3 tracks from peshay,misterjon & blueshift raymatics dish up a platter of smooth jazzy traditonal fare hip hop la funk mob produce a smoky french version of dawn penn's classic 'no no no' as meelaz best cuts are from req tho',lo-fi hip hop mantras, like aphex meets lonnie liston smith meets basic channel in the packed new york subway tek 9 contribute a lazy scratch fest with tumbling laconic beats and hazy vocal and the other cuts vary from 90's fusion - chick corea stylee to atonal lounge - core a soundtracks for surrealists parties other gear doing the biz lava - ep 's 1,2 & 3 (lava) mick harris & eraldo bernocchi - overload june of 44 mini lp speedy j - mike paradinas remix jeff mills - kat moda fureasteen - kasiotelemusik double articulation (folds & rhizomes remixes) tron - dead future mike inc - studio 10 see ya sm@4thworld *cutting edge mail order*

I was just glancing over this month's "Option" magazine in a bookstore.. it had an article on DJ Shadow followed by another on "found sound" (what I gathered was music by sampling). Anyhow, Shadow is going into detail about how he is just about "hip hop", or that's what he is trying to communicate "on the real". In short, I agree with the fact that he is on a real tip... no front, but I would also say that it isn't just Hip Hop. What he is referring to is real music. Somehow we find ourselves surrounded by No Doubt and Michael Jackson representing what we think is music and in the process try to differentiate by coining a different phrase be it "Underground", "Hip Hop", or for the white Southern Californians out there "Ska". We seem to forget that most of those people we see on the countdown are showbiz, not music. Just showbiz. I would go as far as saying that Marylin Manson is on the same tip as Michael Jackson in that he is more about maintaining an image (Demon Lover, Antichrist etc..) than actual music itself. Of course, this is not to say that all his music is shite (even though I think it is), but I do think that it is something that must be remembered when his music is playing. Keeping it on the real happens on all levels-Trent Reznor's "Industrial", Miles Davis' "Jazz", Tribe Called Quest "Hip Hop", AFX "IDM". All keepin' it real means is just making music, not making showbiz. I think artists like Shadow abhor Showbiz so much that they get caught up in trying to differentiate themselves with some sort of name.. -d-

quoted 2 lines Keeping it on the real happens on all levels-Trent Reznor's

> Keeping it on the real happens on all levels-Trent Reznor's > "Industrial"

hehe. You don't think Trent Reznor's showbiz? Tell that to his bandmembers that have gotten mics in the head from his cringingly over the top goth angst onstage antics. I wonder if he walks around the house on sunday afternoons in leather pants and fishnets with his pasty palor trying out tourtured looks in the mirror and grooming that hairy thing on his lip... _____ / ,-,_) /,_) (/ RESH Live & Direct from the G-Spot, Orange County, California, USA http://www1.linkonline.net/fresh/fresh.htm