From the Quaternions Sent Tue, Oct 6th 1998, 15:46
From the Quaternions Sent Tue, Oct 6th 1998, 15:46
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