May 19, 2007
System/Layers (Cinematic Hip-Hop, 2 a.m.)
“Cinematic Hip-hop. System/Layers”
01. J.S. Bach – Partitas no.3 in A minor, Corrente, BWV 827
Bach – Partitas BWV 825 – 827 (2002)
02. AMM - Fine Part Two
Fine (Matchless, 2001)
03. J.S. Bach – Cello Suite No 2, IV Sarabande
Janos Starker, Bach: 6 suites for Solo Cello (2003)
04. J.S. Bach – Partitas no.3 in A minor, Corrente, BWV 827
Bach Partitas BWV 825 – 827 (2002)
05. Rachel’s – Systems/Layers
Systems/Layers (Quarter Stick, 2003)
06. Michael Blair, Art Baron, Greg Cohen, etc.- Meditations on Integration
Weird Nightmare – Meditations on Mingus (1992)
07. Cinematic Orchestra – Breathe
Ma Fleur (Ninja Tune, 2007)
08. Amon Tobin – Chomp Samba
Bricolage (Ninja Tune, 1997)
09. Sara Tavares – Lisboa Kuya
Balancê (Times Square Records, 2006)
10. AMM – Fine Part Two
Fine (Matchless, 2001)
note: not sure what this list is about, since it’s really combination of two styles that are not very compatible. They are forced to be in one place by two ideas. One: Hip-hop/recombination of music and two: music is tightly related to body movement/dance. For eg. Sarabande, Samba, downtempo, jazz are all rooted in dance music. AMM piece is created for ballet accompaniment. But a lot of those has been transformed faraway toward danceable music. Comparison between A popular samba piece (Sara Tavares) and AMM, surprisingly they both relate to each other tightly since they both are rooted deeply in dance music. I tried to use repetitions to hold the list. Anyway, probably this is a functional 2 a.m. list.
see also: AMM – Fine review, CH (happiness)
image: clickykbd
btw, this is an interesting psot related to AMM and the genre (electro accoustic improvisation)
It comes with album list between 1998 to 2006
http://blog.spiralcage.com/?p=7
One of my primary musical interests for the last few years have been in a genre that’s come to be called “eai”. Originally this stood for “electro-acoustic Improvisation” but has taken on a wider meaning then a literal take on those words would imply (however I think that the term does adequately describe the genre, but that’s another post). A post on the ihatemusic forum asking for “essentials” in the genre finally motivated to do something I’d been thinking about for a while – try to create a list of the albums that define this genre.
this is an interesting way to mix Bach with electronics, my first choice when i try to think of the two at the same time is Wendy Carlos, but this list takes another direction
sarabande is a dance music, albeit slow. (gigue and courante too) But to me, they are hardly danceable. (bop head and shake booty type of dance) Same with downtempo/IDM, they rooted in dance, but a lot of them are not danceable anymore.
AMM vs Samba is the most interesting tho’ They sit perfectly well next to each other. And danceable. (well, whatever dance means) But the rythm is there.
I have one more list. The last one is actually a normal downtempo stuff. (Probably I should lump them in lounge list instead. mmm…)
i am looking forward to the downtempo list
Thanks for turning me onto Sara Tavares. She is great!
[...] see also: System/Layers, happiness image by: TommyOshima, TommyOshima [...]
I enjoy that you like my photos and thought to include them to accompany your posting. But my creative commons license specifically requests attribution for uses like this. Please either include my name or have the thumbnails link to their originating flickr pages. Thanks!
Haha. Sorry. Posted to quickly. I now see the attribution at the very bottom. Thanks! (though FYI most flickr photographers would probably appreciate the thumbnails being linked too).
hmmmm,
There is also practical consideration. Balancing post link vs. full link everything. I can link every single words in a post to dictionary, wiki, etc. But in the end nobody is going to click it and nobody will even read the post. It’s ugly. And the point of giving credit (name, urging people to trace back to original creator) is not achieved.
I can’t help it if random clicker doesn’t read credit and has no interest tracing back original work. I usually just point out image credit politely. If he is still whining second time afterward, permanent ban. I have no time dealing with idiots who doesn’t read. (It happens several time, you can search comment section.)
Any creator of original work can request take down. We have 2 records label so far asking for take down. No image creators, since I give credits, license is compatible, and I use “icons”.
Anyway. Anybody else would have used full size image, loading up on different server, maybe resize it and not giving link/credit. You wouldn’t have known your picture is being used even after using ice rocket last nite, because there is no registered link for any searched engine to trace back. A link inside “icon” won’t get associated with “keywords/author” too.
Overall, I think this gives everybody the most. I spread the use of creative commons, authors gets credit via search engine, readers can see the most important information.
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