Now playing: Squarepusher, Just a Souvenir. Early scuttlebutt has kids drinkin’ the Haterade, but I’m a sucker for fusiony IDM nonsense and there’s a track on here, “Delta-V”, that sounds like an instrumental version of the Minutemen’s “Viet Nam” on some kind of intergalactic space-crank.
Kinda late, and I doubt I’m the first to wonder this, but: is there a chance T.I. named one of his new songs “I’m Illy” largely to confuse request-line DJs?
Next time some right-wing pinhead goes over that whole “hey, didja know Obama’s middle name is Hussein?!” schtick, I advise responding with the observation that McCain shares a first name with John Wayne Gacy and that maybe we should start checking his numerous crawlspaces.
Now playing: Ultimate Breaks & Beats, The Instrumentals. This is sort of like a midpoint between one of those faux-K-Tel knockoff “hits” compilations and a karaoke CD in that these are all famous sample-fodder cuts (“It’s a New Day”, “Synthetic Substitution”, “The Mexican”, etc.) rendered as instrumentals by a bunch of studio musicians. Thing is, they’re somewhere around 75% close to nailing the atmosphere of the originals — that weird two-note electric keyboard riff on the Jackson Sisters’ “I Believe in Miracles” is reproduced almost perfectly, for instance — but it’s still either too slick or just a little off (oof, the horns after the opening fanfare on “It’s Just Begun” are flat as hell). In other words, they’ve fallen into the uncanny valley of break beats.
because long-form blog-think pieces are kinda outta my grasp at the moment, so hey
