TAG: Kool Keith

Nov07

Common Grackle – The Great Depression (Review)

Common Grackle

The Great Depression

Released by Fake Four Inc.


Gregory Pepper writes quirky songs centered on human suffering with frayed edges of humor and wit. “The Great Depression” and “Big Marquee” are beautifully-composed odes to sorrow with clever one-liners like “I used to pull pins out of hand grenades / then I extracted lemons out of lemonade” on full display. Clocking in at just over 31 minutes, Canadian duo Common Grackle’s The Great Depression is a concise, cynical meditation on melancholy. It’s a heavy record, but not without moments of comedic relief such as “At The Grindcore Show.” Pepper uses the track to play weary sociological observer as he croons “They all look like body doubles from that shitty film The Crow / now I don’t wanna die at the grindcore show.”

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Feb10

Autechre Mix Tape

Sonically unwrapping an Autechre album is a delicate, overwhelming and sometimes unnerving process — so why should an Ae mixtape be any different?

In anticipation of their March 2010 album, Oversteps, the duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth have released a DJ mix for Fact Magazine. “No tracklist either, so spotters, please do you worst.”

Alright, I did.

Covered in manipulated, over-and-under-saturated, tempo-nudging production, MC’s such as Sensational, Guilty Simpson, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Q-Tip and Percee P meet undulating electro, early ’90s breaks, a reworking of Meat Beat Manifesto’s “Radio Babylon” , throbbing squelch ‘n’ bass and a gamut of plug-in tweaks; that is, subjecting the majority of the tracks to the same unraveling processes that make Ae’s oeuvre so distinct.

Note: may contain traces of new Autechre works (pay attention after the extended cut and paste Black Metal segment).

Hurry, …

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Nov20

N.A.S.A. “Spacious Thoughts” feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith (Video)

And speaking of ultra-hyped blog buzz, remeber last spring when a day couldn’t go by without some new leak, link or remix coming from N.A.S.A.? Must be something about these collective albums that get’s people so aflutter. N.A.S.A.’s been quite for the second half of ‘09, but now a video for “Spacious Thoughts” feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith. The clip sticks with the same animation policy as the rest of the N.A.S.A. clips, this time directed by Fluorescent Hill and animation by Mark Lomond, Johanne Ste-Marie, & Jacques Khouri.There should be a DVD of this stuff coming sometime soon.

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Sep01

Organized Konfusion Ticket Giveaway

Friday, Sept 25th:

ORGANIZED KONFUSION with PHAROAHE MONCH and PRINCE PO, reunited for their first NYC Show in Over a Decade! With special guests POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS.

3 certified classic albums: 1991’s self titled Organized Konfusion, 1994’s Stress: The Extinction Agenda, and 1997’s The Equinox. Organized Konfusion got 4 mics in The Source (back when the Source was cool, before Benzino ruined it). Matty C said, “Prince Poetry and Pharoahe Monch flip the illest off-beat rhyme style to come out since Ultramagnetic’s Kool Keith.”

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Aug04

Kool Keith – Lost Masters Collection Vol. 3 (Review)

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Lost Masters Collection Vol. 3



Third volume to Kool Keith's Lost Masters Collection delivers as expected. Each song taking a social commentary stab at the world around him as well as a very intergalactic world incorporated in the mix. "Laid Back In The Sun" is the first single released off of Volume 3 however the track "Space Center" might be the album's star. The track's beat is infused with unsystematic space sounds all over a break beat. The second track on the album, "Dance For You" also has a familiar feel however more like ...

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