Tag: hip-hop
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…
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You can do it funk or do it disco
Not posted about The Coup in a while, a much missed political hip hop group, and worth repeating or reposting because the message is so sharp and still current…and I love this video by Tim O’Brien for ‘5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO’.
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Apache and the birth of hip hop
Good excerpt from Sample This! a documentary charting the history behind Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache. It might seem strange to only focus on one record, but there aren’t many record in hip hop as fundamental and used and abused as Apache (and important to founding at least 3 of the 4 elements and the invention…
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Eclectic Method – History of Sampling
Not sure about how Revolution No. 9 has the Amen break (err, no), but here’s a good primer from Eclectic Method on the early history of sample culture – although as the excellent WhoSampled points out, some of these have been sampled by hundreds of artists with the most sampled not being featured here –…