New Album, Week 2
August 20th 2007 18:56
I was asked by a good friend to review albums with no lyrics. He related the current state of lyrics to hangovers and unnatural acts with sea creatures. So, just for him. this weeks posts will all be lyric free (for the most part) I like lyrics.
For some reason, this year, my music tastes have changed drastically. Maybe change isn't the best word. Let's say...expanded.
One of my recent finds in my new found musical expansion is DJ Shadow. Big player in music, I know, but new to my ears. Well, this album is at least.
I first discovered DJ Shadow when I saw the music video for his "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" from the abulm, The Outsider. Now that song was some cool shit, and the album- not my favourite, but still good enough to deserve multiple listenings.
But...recently I picked up the special edition of Endtroducing...
Now, as I said before, the music I listen to has just recently expanded. So, as you can imagine, DJ Shadow is completely different than all the rest in my collection. But, I have to tell you, there is something about this artist and this newly acquired album.
Generally I've stuck to guitar driven music- rock, blues, that sort of thing, Then I drifted to the soul side of things, then to ambient electronic and trip-hop...but there is something about the dub-music stlying of DJ Shadow that has my complete attention. Maybe it's the sampling, the scratching, the under beats and the over laying rhythms...I don't know...it's porbably all of that. But with songs like "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt", "What Does your Soul Look Like" and "Midnight in a Perfect World" this album is becoming a fast favourite of mine.
And if for no other reason, if you already have the original which was, I believe, released in 1996, pick this one up just for the live track at the end of the bonus disc.
So, DJ Shadow- scratch on, brother. I dig.
Your, M.C.
-Logan
p.s. I do in no way condone unnatural acts with sea creatures. Even the seahorse as tempting as thay may be.
For some reason, this year, my music tastes have changed drastically. Maybe change isn't the best word. Let's say...expanded.
One of my recent finds in my new found musical expansion is DJ Shadow. Big player in music, I know, but new to my ears. Well, this album is at least.
I first discovered DJ Shadow when I saw the music video for his "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" from the abulm, The Outsider. Now that song was some cool shit, and the album- not my favourite, but still good enough to deserve multiple listenings.
Now, as I said before, the music I listen to has just recently expanded. So, as you can imagine, DJ Shadow is completely different than all the rest in my collection. But, I have to tell you, there is something about this artist and this newly acquired album.
Generally I've stuck to guitar driven music- rock, blues, that sort of thing, Then I drifted to the soul side of things, then to ambient electronic and trip-hop...but there is something about the dub-music stlying of DJ Shadow that has my complete attention. Maybe it's the sampling, the scratching, the under beats and the over laying rhythms...I don't know...it's porbably all of that. But with songs like "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt", "What Does your Soul Look Like" and "Midnight in a Perfect World" this album is becoming a fast favourite of mine.
And if for no other reason, if you already have the original which was, I believe, released in 1996, pick this one up just for the live track at the end of the bonus disc.
So, DJ Shadow- scratch on, brother. I dig.
Your, M.C.
-Logan
p.s. I do in no way condone unnatural acts with sea creatures. Even the seahorse as tempting as thay may be.
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