From laerm Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 17:32
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jeff Pitrman wrote: > DJ Vadim, _USSR Repetoire,_ Ninja Tune > > All of which is leading up to this DJ Vadim cd which is the first > 'turntable person doing a cd' thing I've ever liked. Instead of being a > faux-piklz sort of Everything And The Kitchen Sink Being Scratched At > Once, this cd is very minimal, very slow, and pretty quiet. Flow comes > in very discrete chunks, regularly broken up by silence. I know you > don't believe me when I say that this is a DJ cd that appreciates the > value of silence. I wouldn't believe it without hearing it either. But > it's true. There's a lot of strange noises, bits of tasteful > scratching, lots and lots of slowed down MCs with reverb, and sparse > breaks. Between beats you'll find collages of trumpets mutated beyond > belief and people MCing over the phone. So, this one gets my big > recommendation. It's not necessarily mind-blowingly experimental, but > it's just good. Good hip hop is a nice thing. It's not jazzy enough > that Spin magazine would call it 'the perfect late-night beats cd for > sipping on a martini' or something, but just jazzy enough here and > there. It's just good. Werd. this might be my favourite hip-hop album of all time. it's so dark and minimal and moody, and not in that scorn mixed-with-mud sort of way. i was a tad disappointed, though, when i got the vinyl, put it at 45, and everything was perfectly normal. * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# to breathe within the system/the speed of light is yours icq: 5562209 how many angels? how many angels?