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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
A confounding moment in this month’s Wire--suddenly, near the end of Dave Tompkins’ Christian Vanderesque hip hop column (no, look, it’s fine, I just enjoy it as pure sound-poetry, OK?), there's an unexpected oasis of lucidity, of mundanity even: “Having just played my way through a large stack of HipHop promos that failed to dent me, I had no great expectations for Kinky Disco’s new single. But hey, it’s OK.” The review continues in this rather unenthused and lacklustre manner until the punchline, which is the byline: Byron Coley. Byron Coley?!?!?!? Byron Coley’s into hip hop?!?! It’s hard to picture: Byron Coley of Forced Exposure wading through a hefty stack of mediocre rap promos, persevering until he finds one that’s just sufficiently whelming that he simply HAS to dash off a quick micro-review for The Wire. What’s going on? Are the pickings in Beatnik land really so slim at the moment? Next thing you know Keenan’ll be jutting into Sherburne’s column to grudgingly endorse a “dancefloor plodder” or two, offer some faint praise re. a new Tempa twelve.
Well I suppose the short version of The Name Game thing below is: part of the collective swagger of a scene that’s on the up and brimming with confidence is having a name and using it. So there were loads of jungle tracks with the word "jungle" in it (remember Tribe of Ishacar’s--not sure about spelling- ‘I’m a junglist’?), and loads of house tunes with the word ‘house’ in it, and likewise for every major music genre or movement right back to rock’n’roll.
Man Like Chris Houghton informs me that pirate cru Musketears (Lady Fury and Maxwell D's lott on 99.3 FM, Tuesday nights 10-12) are calling their sound the muske-sound (pronounced "muskeh" aaprently), all through the show they keep saying: "That's NOT garage, that's the MUSKEH sound you're listening to."
Can't see that one catching on. Ridiculous, innit--
they should just call a Council meeting like in the jungle days, big pow-wow of all the warlords and clan chieftains, and sort it out, settle on something.
Man Like Chris Houghton informs me that pirate cru Musketears (Lady Fury and Maxwell D's lott on 99.3 FM, Tuesday nights 10-12) are calling their sound the muske-sound (pronounced "muskeh" aaprently), all through the show they keep saying: "That's NOT garage, that's the MUSKEH sound you're listening to."
Can't see that one catching on. Ridiculous, innit--
they should just call a Council meeting like in the jungle days, big pow-wow of all the warlords and clan chieftains, and sort it out, settle on something.
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