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Yeah I loved it, thanks for asking about the funk!

New interview: https://nialler9.com/autechre-conversation-about-music-art-funk-and-emotion-interview/ @droid is this you? If so, thanks!

layoffs confirmed https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

Yeah it was there, believe it was this YT link

For another good frontier narrative, you might enjoy Nathanial Hawthorne's short story Roger Malvin's Burial, about two European settlers in Massachusetts on their way home after massacring some natives. If you really loved Blood Meridian, then you probably would enjoy Melville's Moby-Dick (if you have not already read it), which I believe was McCarthy's favorite book and is referenced indirectly throughout BM. As for movies, my favorite western is the Coen Brother's version of True Grit. Used to love the John Ford movie The Searchers when I was younger too, haven't seen it in a while, though. That one has frontier violence and confrontations between settlers and natives.

Nice! Spring is def the best track on there I feel like. Love the keyboards and the four on the floor groove. I've been going through James Brown's discography recently, dude had over 60 albums so it's a lot to wade through, this article is pretty helpful. At the end of the day he was singles artist, though, so the singles compilations have a ton of his best stuff.

I think you are right about this last point, very much so. America is most blameworthy imo for spawning the global War on Terror ideology. The consequence was that any powerful country, whether or not allied with western countries, has carte blanche to do warfare and rescind rights of less powerful countries or peoples. A lot of recent posts have mentioned that they do not like conspiracy-minded thinking and are careful with what they say, but I think it can be helpful to have a little paranoia. A good American author said that paranoia is like garlic in the kitchen of life, you can never have too much (it was a tongue-in-cheek comment by a character, not meant to talk about the type of paranoia that can be symptomatic of certain mental illnesses). I would suspect that Isreal had foreknowledge of the attack too, but who knows. I think the more serious consideration, though, is that the biggest geopolitical players are all vying for dominance or to at least undermine the interest of their direct opponents. "Innocent civilians" will always be in the crosshairs as these situations play out. Thankfully there is much less death and destruction from war and instability on a global scale compared with WWII and the Vietnam war era, but the threat of a nuclear exchange will never go away, even if that risk is low, all of these skirmishes potentially point in that direction. A lot of research and projections about the impact of climate change in Southwest Asia and Middle East are also pretty scary. The Syrian civil war, which I believe is still active in the Northwest region of that country, began as protests that were brought on by drought and people not having resources/water/crops to live. Every powerful nation jumped on it and exploited it to play power games and sell each other weapons. During the rest of this century, climate will most likely create more instability in that region, and I wonder how the current situation in Israel and Palestine will play into it.

⬆ Nice. Such funky bass. I think Dilla used that same break but sped up on

I feel the same. Babylon Bis was also my standout upon first listen, such nice flows and rhymes from Westside Gunn. The beat on Kitchen Lights was also tight, kinda moving and regal. The songs with Conductor beats were really good as well, especially those weird gospel interludes on The Revenge of Flip Legs.

I get the same vibe from this tune:

I feel this about digging the more loose and raw stuff (I'm partial to the 1996 What Up Doe session tracks), but I also love Donuts, tracks like Airworks and Time. Also, it's open for interpretation, but some of the ways that the tracks seem to be expressing a feeling that you are going to be departing earth soon, since he was finishing some of the songs while very close to death apparently, it's kind of hard-hitting and unusual for that feeling to be expressed so clearly but with very short snippets of audio, like at the beginning of The Twister, that Stevie Wonder sample from one of his live albums, where he's like "before I go . . . someone warm like you" before Dilla brings the main beat in. I could be reading too much into those moments on the album, but they always seemed eerie and funky to me. Anyhoo, happy belated 50th to Mr. Vibert. He has the juice!

Philadelphia graffiti:

I gotta revisit S3 of True Detective, only watched it once when it aired and did not enjoy as much as the first 2, although the final shot of the S3 was quite nice and very memorable. S1 of Mindhunter is so good! I really hope that David Fincher returns for a 3rd season. The dude who plays Ed Kemper in S1 is incredible. I guess it is pretty dry the acting but I felt like it meshed well with the other elements of the season film-making wise.

I revisited this RA mix a couple of weeks ago, it's so good. The transition from EPMD's Total Kaos into MC Shan's The Bridge is magnificent around the 20:20 mark. It's always fun trying to trace subtle references and sonic echoes of old school Hip Hop in their current material, feel like it's kinda hard to hear, though. But there seem to be long stretches in the newest live sets where snare-like sounds are going consistently on the 2 and 4 for long stretches, so rhythmically it's kinda there I suppose, but that's an Electro staple too. As for now playing, treated myself this evening to one of my favorites:

Westside's new album coming one week from today, cannot wait! Someone leaked the track titles with production credits and features. I'm kinda bummed it looks like Daringer only has one song on there, but the whole thing looks promising. RZA has a beat on there. He made the intro beat to 10, but this time it looks like a full fledged song with West and Stove on it.

Love this beat too. I skimmed the album today, there is a song with a DJ Screw beat on it: