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Greetings all. What a shitty way to start the day. I get up, I’m sitting at the breakfast table getting my sons ready for school, log onto the interwebs, and the first thing I see is that the mighty Teddy Pendergrass, one of the truly great soul voices of the 1970s has passed away at the age of 59. Pendergrass had a memorable solo career, but my all-time fave record featuring his voice is also one of my all-time fave records period, that being Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes original version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’. I hope the middle of the week finds you well. I wasn’t originally going to do a Wednesday post this week, but last night, as I was getting in a little headphone work before turning in (as I often do), I was flipping through my list of stockpiled blog tracks and when today’s selection came on I cranked the volume, closed my eyes and let the music carry me away.
These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound? That's right, before it was all-808-everything, hip-hop used a secret (and sometimes not-so-secret) selection of classic soul, funk rock, and jazz records from the '60s and '70s to create their sound. From tiny, obscure snippets to instantly-recognizable loops, the sample-based producers of the late '80s and early '90s uncovered some truly classic musical gems that are still sought after and used today. Thank god we've got folks like Kon + Amir to keep us digging deeper. The veteran record collectors, DJs, and producers (yeah, they basically they do it all) recently released their latest compilation of slept-on vinyl rarities called Off Track Vol. 3 , so we decided to call them up and get them to select their all-time favorite samples.
The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time
I think that it would not be overstating things to say that for fans of the music we call soul, this has been an absolute motherfucker of a week. I mean, as we have discussed previously, we are in the midst of an era when these sad events will be coming with increasing frequency, but the inevitability of age doesn’t make these losses any easier to take. Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938, she first recorded (discovered by none other than Johnny Otis ) in 1954 and hit the top of the charts in 1955 with ‘The Wallflower’ (aka Dance With Me Henry) in 1955. She remained on the charts, both R&B and Pop, through the 50s, 60s and 70s, wrestling on and off with heroin addiction, yet still making some remarkably powerful records.
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Choir of Young Believers - Rhine Gold Hear this page in just 6 mins • Tour Dates
Auscultons le bilan de fin d'année des Inrocks Le bilan de fin d'année des Inrocks, c'est toujours un grand moment. Dès qu'il est publié, c'est un peu le Café du Commerce dans ta chambre : les mails arrivent de partout pour dénoncer ce scandale, cette saignée, cette trahison aux valeurs historiques du magazine.
Interprétations Diverses
Benn loxo du taccu
I had the good fortune to spend a week in Seoul, South Korea, this past February. The weather was hazy and cold almost every day and the pollution hung in the air like a bad Beijing day, but I still thought the city was pretty cool. It was much bigger than I imagined and it takes you hours to get anywhere.. my meetings seemed to always be at opposite ends of the city. I could go on and on about how great Korean food is, but I’ll let Louise handle that. Let’s focus on some music. I have to admit that I’ve had a hard time penetrating the K-Pop scene to find some truly good contemporary Korean music.
ça fait tellement longtemps que je ne sais plus pour où je dois commencer. Je vous ai donc préparé une petite sélection de mon cru. Les notes seront plus bavardes. Pour débuter, une vieille chanson, vendue pour quelques dizaines de dollars, qui a depuis rapporté beaucoup plus.
la case de l'affreux thom
Part of the “cost” for having grown up as a hip-hop fiend of the ’80s and ’90s is that the line between hip-hop and pop was always clearly drawn in the sand. It didn’t mean you couldn’t enjoy both but they were just two different beasts. Of course, by the end of the ’90s, rap artists threw that memo out, mostly because hip-hop had all but taken over pop music anyway and, for a good while, many a pop artist trying to stay relevant, would have to kiss the ring and try their hand at integrating hip-hop into their style. And thus, you could have hip-hop producers crossing into the pop realm to lend some “cred” to someone like, say, Christina Aguilera but at the end of the day, you still knew that DJ Premier was “on our side” and Xtina was on the other. That’s just how it went.
soul sides
naija jams
Yesterday afternoon, I received email saying that I had been tagged in a video on Facebook. Anyone familiar with facebook knows that more often than not, you’re not actually in the video, but rather someone wants to spam you wants you to see something. I was pleasantly surprised to see an awesome video about a yet unknown to me musician, Siji. The video promos Siji’s sophomore album project “Adesiji” that features a sharp cast of musicians and co producers including Rich Medina and King Britt. The wonderfully chill soul sounds are a refreshing complement to his ideas on music, production and the like. Look forward to more from Siji.
A musicblogger/audioblogger/MP3blogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. I'm not prejudiced; I also include record label sites, artist's personal sites, people who aggregate the daily adventures of other musicbloggers into digests... I like em all. What you WON'T find in here are file directories without commentary or sites offering a full album that is currently in print. Audioblogging is NOT about piracy; it's about selectively sharing sounds.
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High on the Stones by Dan Chiasson | The New York Review of Books
Keith Richards ended up calling his memoir Life , not, as had been planned, My Life , the more conventional choice. Almost any memoir ever written could be called My Life . It’s what Bill Clinton called his own memoir. For Clinton it was a defensive, even a defiant, title, but then, memoirs are defensive by nature. To exist, they must justify their existence. Uniqueness—the “my” in “my life”—is an important condition: without it none but the first-ever memoir would have to exist.Fresh from damp-brown 50s Liverpool, packed into a camper van with one bumper hanging off, these were truly innocents abroad. They'd played rock & roll for years, at the Lathom Hall or the Childwall Labour Club - they'd seen brawls and batterings, and known the feel of girdled girls, and swaggered through foul-smelling crowds, and thrown up pints of English ale. All that pain and glory, though, had been contained, parochial, and nothing more than a minor disturbance.
The Beatles In Hamburg
Ed Note: Sometimes it’s hard to hear music as described on the page. Bill DeMain’s story on Miles Davis and Kind of Blue in our latest magazine is wonderful, but we wanted to make sure readers actually got to hear the sounds. So we asked Ransom to remix it with any YouTube clips he could find.
The Genius of Miles Davis: Explained!
P aris, May 23, 2007: Carefully avoiding eye contact with the tourists in the street, Charlotte Gainsbourg quickly lets me into the small, graffiti-covered house at 5 bis Rue de Verneuil. Two blocks from Boulevard Saint-Germain in the Seventh Arrondissement, the house is where her father, Serge Gainsbourg, lived and, on March 2, 1991, died at the age of 62. In the days following his death, France went into mourning, fans crowded the tiny street singing his songs, and the women closest to him sat in his bedroom with his body for four days because Charlotte didn't want to let him go. For 16 years this house has been shuttered and locked, with only the housekeeper or occasional family member allowed inside. Charlotte, an actress and a huge star in France, is now the owner of the house and wants, with the help of architect Jean Nouvel, to turn it into a museum.
The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg | Culture | Vanity Fair
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