From Rodney Perkins Sent Tue, Oct 6th 1998, 16:14
From Rodney Perkins Sent Tue, Oct 6th 1998, 16:14
To be truthful, Tricky talks a lot of sh*t. Carl Craig called Tricky out on this in an issue of Mondo 2000. It was right on the money and I'll post it later. Is reciting old hip-hop lyrics (Lyrics of Fury, Black Steel) over hipped-up backing tracks a synthesis? Hardly. He's good but he is not Jesus. I think Massive Attack are a far better example of a similar sound (in fact, they are the originators). Spooky probably spends too much thinking about what he's doing but given the current lack of depth in music, I can handle a bit of pretension. I think his recorded output is ace. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" was definitely a successful attempt at a synthesis of many different forms. I was hoping "Riddim Warfare" would use a similar "mix-tape" approach but it is still fantastic. I especially like his live sets. >Can anyone help me out with that Tricky quote from a year or 2 ago >regarding Spooky? Something to the effect of "He shouldstop talking until >he does some tracks that just rip your head off". > And keep an eye out for a Tricky small club tour in November. I believe >he's coming through New Haven CT and Jacksonville Florida, but those are >the only ones I've heard about. > I can't decide how I like the new Spooky album. It's defintely not as >pretentious as his earlier efforts, but the art wank remains. Sometimes >his beats are great, but other times it seems like he's trying to do >staight hiphop or d nb and failing, ike he jst isses the point a little >bit. And for all his talk about combining all the music of the world, his >real influences are pretty obviously hiphop and the NY d nb scene, with a >little bit of avaant improv and jazz thrown in. Which is fine and >understandable, but it doesn't justify his big talk as the grand >synthesist. Tricky comes a lot closer than Spooky t doing that and Company >Flow is far more abrasive and dystopian than Spooky's Atari smart bombs and >"stock footage" voice samples. the man samples Sublime and Puff daddy >without a hint of irony, and I think there's something wrong with that. > But damn, Riddim Warfarre has got to be one of the best (if not the best) >marriages of hiphop and d n b yet. And some of the other hard jungle >tracks are amazing. But then he goes and ruins trhem with fucking >pretentious, arrogant art talk. I don't know what to think... Any other opinions? > >Sam > >