From laerm Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 17:32
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.
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