June 2nd, 2008
linkthink #3949: Performative Geometries
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‘I decided to take these people who are put on a platform within that dancehall space — worship of a don or a “shotta” — a bad man — and peel it down to the very feminine, beautiful men using all of the things that are within the dance hall vernac…’
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“I want to argue that every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.”
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writers&thinkers recommend books to the prez candidates :: i esp enjoyed orlando patterson’s, george packer’s, and gore vidal’s
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a review of _Globalization and Its Discontents_
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new cumbia mix, quite bloggily informed !
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nueva “tropical” mix por geko jones de dutty artz
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benga shares his fruityloopy logic for producing dubstep
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totally awesome homemade video for usher track, using meticulously, hilariously programmed animatronic kids-bday band! :: don’t miss the jeezy/dummy verse :: &dude takes requests! (thx, johnnn)
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bo diddley is dead, long live the bo diddley beat
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“But pitch correction has also taken on a second life, as an effect. … Auto-Tune, properly torqued up, is the rare edit that calls attention to itself.” — SF/J on our autotuned age :: not sure, tho, it’s rare at this point to foreground edits/effects
videyoga :: (ventriloquism, ay!)
musicologist, internet annotator, and rapper-ternt-blogger.
9 Comments Add your own
1. Jahsonic | June 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
Loved the set at the end, great stuff, by you?
2. wayneandwax | June 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
If you mean the video, no, that’s not by me — though I’d love to have my own programmable band of animal automatons. It’s by this guy, who apparently takes requests!
3. Birdseed | June 4th, 2008 at 7:44 am
On the downside I can never hear this song on the radio anymore without thinking of that damned animatronic Gorilla.
4. wayneandwax | June 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
& I can’t stop thinking of this –
5. Kiddid | June 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Yeah, sounds kind of chinsy for a so-called pro producer to do that…
Speaking of borrowing sounds…Wayne, help me out here…I’m forgetting the name of that house track Gregzinho spun the other night that I said sounded conspicuously like South RakkasGet Mad Again…I wanna do a little comparison.
6. Jahsonic | June 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Apparently, I meant the Geko Jones set. And thanks for flowing me to mudd up!, Mutant Sounds and Analog Africa. Since the demise of woebot I’ve read very little music journalism. They are refreshing.
J
7. theantisuck | June 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
yo, who writes that blog “the hairdryer treatment”?? i like his mix but I wanna tell him/her s/he credited a few things wrong buuuut no comment section on the blog & no contact info?? for a bloggily informed dude w/ a bloggily informed mix its kinda takin the whole interactive bizness outta things. lame.
8. wayneandwax | June 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
i couldn’t find out any of that info myself, but it seemed worth noting anyhow.
you’re right. maintaining anonymity/avatarity is one thing, but removing the interactivity is another. i don’t read many tumblelogs, but the lack of a comment section seems pretty common, if not endemic to them. hm.
9. THT | June 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
theantisuck:
hit me up at thehairdryertreatment@gmail.com about the mislabeling if you read this. i haven’t been posting for that long and tumblr doesn’t have comment functionality, but you and wayne make some compelling points about the lack of interactivity. i don’t usually leave to many comments on blogs and i just figured not many people would want to comment on mine when i originally set it up.
Wayne:
thanks for the shout out, great site.
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