Month: February 2013

• Music Recorded music

  Beattrix – Take It Back To Bring It Forward (hip-hop)

  

  ‘Our story of music begins in the dim distant past,’ announces the sample with which this album commences; it’s followed by a boom, and shortly thereafter, by a bap. This is twenty-first century music, today’s music, produced with today’s tools, with a sound that is distinctly located in the now,…

  February 15, 2013
• Music Recorded music

  Urban Homes – Centres (electronica)

  

  Altin Village & Mine sent me some great CDs for Christmas… well ok, it was after Christmas, and they sent them to me to review, but you get the picture. This is the third and last of that batch (and looking through their recent release schedule it appears that I’ve…

  February 8, 2013
• Music Recorded music

  Various Artists – Singles and EPs

  

  There are ‘pieces’ that are undeniably rap, and definitely not poetry, such as The Sugarhill Gang’s ‘Rapper’s Delight’, and there are others that are undeniably poetry, and definitely not rap, such as John Donne’s Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going To Bed. This emphatic distinction is a matter of customary…

  February 4, 2013