From David Hodgson Sent Thu, Feb 5th 1998, 03:03
From David Hodgson Sent Thu, Feb 5th 1998, 03:03
I saw Tricky supporting PJ Harvey promoting the first album and it was one of the best shows i've seen. he didn't interact with the audience at all - but that was irrelevant. No spotlights , just really dark ambient lighting really good Dave [np: jon hassell - earthquake island ] > -----Original Message----- > From: xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx [SMTP:xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 6:49 PM > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: (idm) Re:Tricky/Also-NYC hiphop show > > >As for Tricky, he might make his own music, but only just. Badly looping > >a sample and throwing some other cut up bits over the top hardly ranks > >as the most effort in the world, IMO, and although effort isn't > >everything, his latest batch of music is the most lacklustre expression > >of 'genius' I've ever heard. > DISCLAIMER: I understand very little about the procedures/mechanics of > music > making, and I'm generally an ignorant bastard. > Graham, I think you're missing the point. Yes, Tricky uses a > sampler a > helluva lot. But I don't think anybody else does as much with a sampler > as he > does. I don't think anybody could make an Eric B cymbal hit as > claustrophobic > as he does on Makes me Wanna Die. Same goes for any of the other songs on > his > albums where I don't know the sample source-Tricky appropriates sounds, > lyrics, etc. and uses them to create his own vision which IMO is > completely > unique. Evrything he does is a collage-he doesn't just work the sampler > hard, > he rips fragments of lyrics from Public Enemy and elsewhere, his albums > are > heavy on the cover songs. Somehow however, unlike Oasis or Puffy, he > makes > other people's material his own-as i said earlier, he "plays" the sampler, > he > doesn't just sample. And once he has his material in place, he does so > much > more to bring it into his world: through repetition (ever noticed that > makes > me wanna die is basically a 2 minute song repeated twice?), through album > arrangement (just sit down and follow the arcs of his albums-every track > is > exactly where it belongs), through lyrics (which tread a fine line, but > IMO he > pulls it off every time), through vocalists (who all have amazing sounding > voices if not always good technical skills). Basically, I think the man > is a > genius-his albums have their unlistenable flops (ghetto youth, strugglin', > etc.), but I even find those conceptually interesting. And, I beg you, > see > the man live if humanly possible-the repetitious stuff on Pre-Millenium > tension makes so much more sense live, when he's able to build each song > for > as long as he needs, when you can see how involved he gets, when you can > hear > the funk reworking of She Makes Me Wanna Die... (To head off comments in > advance, I'm under the impression that he's only got his live show into > shape > on the PMT tour, and that he didn't know how to work with an audience > previously). > > More on the hiphop tip-for all NYCers, kool Keith (Dr. Octagon) is playing > a > show at tramps with the Ultramagnetic MCs and Company Flow on thursday > 2/26. > Email me privately if you're thinking of going. $20 i think... > > Sam >