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2007/08/16
2007/03/07
ESCOBAR 600 --Gangster Shit At Its Best Part 3
Here we go...now you might know how my wicked mind works....I will eloquently proof now, that this is Nas' finest work till today:
NAS - It Was Written
1. Album Intro" (produced by Nas & Trackmasters)
I never liked the original Intro. First a skit about slavery and then Nas and AZ have a conversation over a quite good, string ladden, very slow beat. I recommend to replace this intro for soundscape reasons in any playlist of "It was Written" with the intro of the Nas LP "I AM". On this one his brother Jungle and some other dude talk rather senseless shit, but the underlying beat just fits -bizarrely- rather to the vibe of "It was Written" than "I Am". With its sparkling , high note keyboard and string sounds, this beat sounds like watching City Lights at night through a car window while driving very intoxicated. I like that feeling better and it introduces the vibe of what's to follow much better.
2. "The Message" (produced by Poke & Tone)
One of my favorite songs ever. I surprisingly soft sounding beat with a acoustic Guitar sample -which was raped years later by Lloyd Banks lookalike Craig David, or is Lloyd Banks a Craig David lookalike? I dunno...- . The beat kicks in very strong and Nas dives right into a metaphorical but still storytelling rhyme about friendship and betrayal. He touches the main topic in human relations , reduced to the microcosm of the underworld. Like with HBO's Sopranos , the relationship is more hard boiled and not so abstract and "civilized" like between you and your jerk-off co-worker in some funds and trusts department in a big bank who is willing to climb over your cold body just to get a new key account ;) (I am not in that business btw). But yet it is true. Nas describes the shark pool we all live in through the eyes of a gangster. "Hungry ass hooligans stay on that pirahna shit" Or rather Piranha Pool. And no stupid ass explaining "what I mean" lyrics either. He did not give a fuck ... Nas was on a true B-Boy Lyricism rhyming path, but wrapped it in crime indulged metaphors and pop cultural references like
"96 ways I made out, Montana way
The Good-F-E-L-L-A, verbal AK spray"
One sentence and two movie references (Scarface and Good Fellas which means, Deniro, Pesci, Scorsese, Pacino and Brian de Palma), a "my mouth is my gun" metaphor (eventhough it should be noted that in 94 Jeru the Damajas "Mind" already "sprayed") and the rhythm of his rhyming is extremely skilled...I used to rewind that rhyme very often. Plus he spelled out one word and managed that all rhymes. Incredible and just one example.
Then this scratched chorus cuts in
"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"
"I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
Nas used his own lyrics from "New York State of Mind" EPMD did that all the time. This was like a big fuck you to all competitors, if you consider only your own verses sample-worthy. Jay-Z should have taken notes("You sampled my Thunns..." E-Money Bags).
This chorus breaks the over all soft mood of the beat and gives it a hard edge. The verse itself is self-explanatory: Watch your back...life ain't no joke. But If You try me you will see what you get.
On an universal level I just can say: True. And Nas puts it right when the first verse ends with this incredible truthful and hard boiled rhyme:
"Contemplatin war niggaz I was cool with before
We used to score together, Uptown coppin the raw
But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up"
If anyone believes this experience is limited to a life of crime or cannot share this emotion, is either a very, very , very , I mean VERY happy person and probably already dead and in paradise or a fucking douche-bag with no reflection on life at all. (BTW this line "thug changes, and love changes" was sampled for a Jaz-O track by DJ premier for the song "Love is Gone" I guess in 2001 which was directed at his old homie Jay-Z; again.)
On a MC/Rap level I just can say: Ether. Ask Jay, he don't want it with Nas.
So this song kicks it off perfectly. A new sound...gone is the golden era 90ies sound of Illmatic. A fresh-breezing beat, warm and subtle, but still some real gangster shit. Highly sophisticated rhyming. And a blues-like outlook on life through the eyes of a criminal mind.
The Message served as an Intro for the "If I ruled the World" Video. It started off in Queensbridge at night, Nas is parking in a 96 Lexus at the sidewalk and Cormega joins him. After a few seconds .... "If I ruled..." kicks in.
And I thought about a purely associative column in my posts. Every song should get his colors, which means which colors or other totally abstract emotions awake the song in each of us. If anyone ever reads the shit I am dropping here, it would be great to share our inner images...
In the case of the "Message": night, dark, gold, sunset red, black, silver, orange, white
Next up part 4
NAS - It Was Written
1. Album Intro" (produced by Nas & Trackmasters)
I never liked the original Intro. First a skit about slavery and then Nas and AZ have a conversation over a quite good, string ladden, very slow beat. I recommend to replace this intro for soundscape reasons in any playlist of "It was Written" with the intro of the Nas LP "I AM". On this one his brother Jungle and some other dude talk rather senseless shit, but the underlying beat just fits -bizarrely- rather to the vibe of "It was Written" than "I Am". With its sparkling , high note keyboard and string sounds, this beat sounds like watching City Lights at night through a car window while driving very intoxicated. I like that feeling better and it introduces the vibe of what's to follow much better.
2. "The Message" (produced by Poke & Tone)
One of my favorite songs ever. I surprisingly soft sounding beat with a acoustic Guitar sample -which was raped years later by Lloyd Banks lookalike Craig David, or is Lloyd Banks a Craig David lookalike? I dunno...- . The beat kicks in very strong and Nas dives right into a metaphorical but still storytelling rhyme about friendship and betrayal. He touches the main topic in human relations , reduced to the microcosm of the underworld. Like with HBO's Sopranos , the relationship is more hard boiled and not so abstract and "civilized" like between you and your jerk-off co-worker in some funds and trusts department in a big bank who is willing to climb over your cold body just to get a new key account ;) (I am not in that business btw). But yet it is true. Nas describes the shark pool we all live in through the eyes of a gangster. "Hungry ass hooligans stay on that pirahna shit" Or rather Piranha Pool. And no stupid ass explaining "what I mean" lyrics either. He did not give a fuck ... Nas was on a true B-Boy Lyricism rhyming path, but wrapped it in crime indulged metaphors and pop cultural references like
"96 ways I made out, Montana way
The Good-F-E-L-L-A, verbal AK spray"
One sentence and two movie references (Scarface and Good Fellas which means, Deniro, Pesci, Scorsese, Pacino and Brian de Palma), a "my mouth is my gun" metaphor (eventhough it should be noted that in 94 Jeru the Damajas "Mind" already "sprayed") and the rhythm of his rhyming is extremely skilled...I used to rewind that rhyme very often. Plus he spelled out one word and managed that all rhymes. Incredible and just one example.
Then this scratched chorus cuts in
"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"
"I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin"
Nas used his own lyrics from "New York State of Mind" EPMD did that all the time. This was like a big fuck you to all competitors, if you consider only your own verses sample-worthy. Jay-Z should have taken notes("You sampled my Thunns..." E-Money Bags).
This chorus breaks the over all soft mood of the beat and gives it a hard edge. The verse itself is self-explanatory: Watch your back...life ain't no joke. But If You try me you will see what you get.
On an universal level I just can say: True. And Nas puts it right when the first verse ends with this incredible truthful and hard boiled rhyme:
"Contemplatin war niggaz I was cool with before
We used to score together, Uptown coppin the raw
But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up"
If anyone believes this experience is limited to a life of crime or cannot share this emotion, is either a very, very , very , I mean VERY happy person and probably already dead and in paradise or a fucking douche-bag with no reflection on life at all. (BTW this line "thug changes, and love changes" was sampled for a Jaz-O track by DJ premier for the song "Love is Gone" I guess in 2001 which was directed at his old homie Jay-Z; again.)
On a MC/Rap level I just can say: Ether. Ask Jay, he don't want it with Nas.
So this song kicks it off perfectly. A new sound...gone is the golden era 90ies sound of Illmatic. A fresh-breezing beat, warm and subtle, but still some real gangster shit. Highly sophisticated rhyming. And a blues-like outlook on life through the eyes of a criminal mind.
The Message served as an Intro for the "If I ruled the World" Video. It started off in Queensbridge at night, Nas is parking in a 96 Lexus at the sidewalk and Cormega joins him. After a few seconds .... "If I ruled..." kicks in.
And I thought about a purely associative column in my posts. Every song should get his colors, which means which colors or other totally abstract emotions awake the song in each of us. If anyone ever reads the shit I am dropping here, it would be great to share our inner images...
In the case of the "Message": night, dark, gold, sunset red, black, silver, orange, white
Next up part 4
ESCOBAR 600 --Gangster Shit At Its Best Part 2
....Escobar 600. The word itself is a a witty play with pronunciation and association.
Let's break it down like you lay on your favorites therapists couch:
ESCOBAR --> Cocaine King, ultra-violence, peoples hero, war against the government, moustache, the 70ies, the 80ies, Scarface The Movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (These cowboys fled to Bolivia!), idolized criminal, heartless, tons of coke, untouchable, rise and fall, powerful, feared by his enemies
600 --> The Mercedes S-Class 600. The biggest and most gangster vehicle I can imagine....-> which means coolness, success, money and intimidation and german engineering quality ;) , quality itself
If you pronounce it .... its the EScobar 600 ---> so Nas cleverly incorporated a whole image in just one word attaching a number. He is the top of the game, the one everyone wants to be, he is cool, and intimidating, no one can fuck with his skills and yet he is a tragic figure , bound to fall , a person who has to sacrifice his life to reach what he wants. A person with more dark than good sides. The name alone is the perfect metaphor for being an realistic artist and a person in general. It is Rap braggadocio at its best: "I am not to fuck with, I am The Best, The Hardest, The Flyest.....and still look at me... you all want what I have, you all want to have the S-Class , the superior wealth, you all want power, respect, you all want to be feared (as and MC or a Man or both). But check it...everything must come to an end! Even a guy like Escobar got shot in front of his mother, dragging his fat ass over a corrugated sheet iron roof in some slum in Colombia! So this may happen to me literally or just artistically..." (It probably has happend artistically to Nas...)
This was what Nas transcendented through his name giving alone.
"I escape into zones that's irregular....."
And this is what this blog is about --> Feeling Music and transcendending music to an experience which is not just consuming and numbing yourself but a part of your own life and an truly real experience.
So next up... part 3 and why "It was written" is THE SHIT!!!!
Let's break it down like you lay on your favorites therapists couch:
ESCOBAR --> Cocaine King, ultra-violence, peoples hero, war against the government, moustache, the 70ies, the 80ies, Scarface The Movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (These cowboys fled to Bolivia!), idolized criminal, heartless, tons of coke, untouchable, rise and fall, powerful, feared by his enemies
600 --> The Mercedes S-Class 600. The biggest and most gangster vehicle I can imagine....-> which means coolness, success, money and intimidation and german engineering quality ;) , quality itself
If you pronounce it .... its the EScobar 600 ---> so Nas cleverly incorporated a whole image in just one word attaching a number. He is the top of the game, the one everyone wants to be, he is cool, and intimidating, no one can fuck with his skills and yet he is a tragic figure , bound to fall , a person who has to sacrifice his life to reach what he wants. A person with more dark than good sides. The name alone is the perfect metaphor for being an realistic artist and a person in general. It is Rap braggadocio at its best: "I am not to fuck with, I am The Best, The Hardest, The Flyest.....and still look at me... you all want what I have, you all want to have the S-Class , the superior wealth, you all want power, respect, you all want to be feared (as and MC or a Man or both). But check it...everything must come to an end! Even a guy like Escobar got shot in front of his mother, dragging his fat ass over a corrugated sheet iron roof in some slum in Colombia! So this may happen to me literally or just artistically..." (It probably has happend artistically to Nas...)
This was what Nas transcendented through his name giving alone.
"I escape into zones that's irregular....."
And this is what this blog is about --> Feeling Music and transcendending music to an experience which is not just consuming and numbing yourself but a part of your own life and an truly real experience.
So next up... part 3 and why "It was written" is THE SHIT!!!!
Escobar 600 -- Gangster Shit at its best
If anyone ever reads my little pamphlets he may ask himself "Why the fuck is this blog named Escobar 600???" "And what about the lyrics in the title" . Frankly it may be self-explanatory, since it shows that the quoted lyrics are from a song by Nas featuring Mobb Deep called "Live Nigga Rap" from his 1996 second LP "It was Written". This leads to my first post called
ESCOBAR 600 - Gangster Shit at its best (Part1)
Everyone in Hip Hop and even beyond is of the opinion that Nas' first LP "Illmatic" is still his best work till today. False!!!!!!!!!!! If I would talk to anyone who claims to be a "Hip Hop Head" etc. about my opinion, I would have to defend myself against nearly religious fanaticism. But I am an misanthropic fellow and arrogant, too ... at least regading music. Fuck you all!!!! ;) Anyhow I will not criticize the undoubtedly best b-boy document in music-history, cause there is nothing to criticize. I just think it is not Nas best record. I will just explain why I think that "It was written" is Nas at his creative climax and why this LP is a more universal record and therefore a better one that "Illmatic".
Rewind Summer 1995. Mobb Deep -I won't explain who they are, this is not Wikipedia- had released I think in late 1994 the incredible , monumental 12 inch "Shook Ones Pt.2" and following Spring 1995 the defining New York Gangster Hip Hop LP "The Infamous". Yours Truly started studying around this time at the University of Frankfurt after getting released from the army. I spend my time with buying Hip Hop records at Freebase records in Frankfurt, studying, hanging around in student coffehouses, watching obscure movies with my best friends and making mixtapes with no actual turntable skills at all, but an ear for the vibe. AND watching Yo! MTV Raps. I do not remember clearly if it was before or after I finally got my hands on a copy of "The Infamous", but I clearly remember a episode of Yo!MTV Raps with Nas, Mobb Deep and the Cuban Links King Raekwon. Mobb Deep -I have to admit, cause I am a fan not a groupie ;)- acted like autistic retards and looked like midgets on PCP. They barely opened their mouthes when asked a question directly by this clown Ed Lover (who I hated with a passion, cause I always had his terrible LP by him with the fat Dr. Dre in front of my inner eye with a group called "Original Concept" and thought why the fuck this loser is allowed to handle this show when he even could not pull off one bearable rhyme?! On the other hand Charlie Murphy had this bizarre rap group K9 Posse and is still funny as hell. Clearly Ed Lover is not Charlie Murphy.)
Nas was there. Cool and eloquent. Perhaps a bit coked up and brought down by any form of THC. But hey it's Rock'N'Roll, if not them who else?! Raekwon...I just quote him from the Source in 1995 with the Wu-Gambino cover:"....so what!? I done sniffed blow! And I still looking good!"
Looking "good" may be in the eye of the beholder. I think he meant "capable of making a living and getting pussy while strung out on Yayo" or something like that. Raekwon's behavior clearly showed that he was about 20 years older than the little dudes from Queensbridge. He came across like a mixture between Lino Ventura and Yaphet Kotto in Wu Wear. Which has no negative aspects at all in my opinion. I don' t remenber one word about the interview...but then the obligatory "freestyle" session kicked in. It was not "free" at all. The Mobb, Nas and Rae just kicked there verses from the ice-cold Mobb deep track "Eye for An Eye" I guess Havoc tried to avoid the freestyling and had to be convinced to rhyme by Nas on air!!!! Shyness is a curse (Bobby Bacala). Mobb Deep fucked up on their own song; probably due to drug abuse. Raekwon kicked it like it was supposed to be; probably due to appropriate drug use. And Nas rhymed his lines with such a great convincing and cold delivery...it truly showed his greatness on the Mic. This was the first time I heard this lyrics:
Verse three: nas
A drug dealer’s dream
Stash cream keys on a triple beam
Five hundred sl green, ninety-five nickle gleam
Condominium, thug dressed like a gentleman
Tailor made ostrich, chanel for my women friend
Murderin, numbers on your head while I’m burglarin
Shank is servin em, whassup to all my niggaz swervin in
New york metropolis, the bridge brings apocalypse
Shoot at the clouds feels like, the holy beast is watchin us
Mad man my sanity is goin like an hourglass
Gun inside my bad hand I sliced tryin to bag grams
I got hoes that used to milk you
Niggaz who could’ve killed you
Is down with my ill crew of psychoes
Nas escobar movin on your weak production
Pumpin corruption in the third world we just bustin
"Nas Escobar" was born or rather baptized at this day. It was the Wu-Gambino era. Wu Tang gave themselves names of actual or fictional gangsters. Many names were taken. especially the Mafia names. So Nas probably sat high in a studio or car and thought: "Damn my big homies from Staten Island have all these cool names... and Nas is rather short and not so flamboyant as my lifestyle is after the paychecks from Illmatic came in. mhmmm.... QB, Drug dealing, New York, Coke, Violence, Respect ..........Scarface! Fuck already taken....Tony Montana! Not a wise move to name yourself after a dead Gangster homie of Fat Joe mhmmmm...Coke, Coke, Coke, Coke ....Pablo Escobar!!! He was a bad motherfucker. And actually exists. NAS ESCOBAR!"
I always thought that this name was very cool. Especially as a being 21-22 years old fascinated with gangster movies, violence, drugs and growing up and living in a an urban environment. Pablo Escobar -like John Gotty etc.- are those criminal or rather outlaw characters who the people can project there wishes and fears on. It is the guy who had all and lost all. The classic topos. It doesnt matter what kind of person he really was... The perception , the image of Escobar was clearly fascinating.
So Nas Escobar moved on your weak production. Nas entered the "New York 90ies Gangster Shit era" of his career and created an monumental LP. A depiction of a whole lifestyle of crime and its social surroundings. And furthermore he created a meditation on urban life, visualized city nights, created metaphors and associative word combinations and fascinating story-telling which were boundary-less.
Let's get into the world of Escobar 600.....
(Part 2 follows soon)
ESCOBAR 600 - Gangster Shit at its best (Part1)
Everyone in Hip Hop and even beyond is of the opinion that Nas' first LP "Illmatic" is still his best work till today. False!!!!!!!!!!! If I would talk to anyone who claims to be a "Hip Hop Head" etc. about my opinion, I would have to defend myself against nearly religious fanaticism. But I am an misanthropic fellow and arrogant, too ... at least regading music. Fuck you all!!!! ;) Anyhow I will not criticize the undoubtedly best b-boy document in music-history, cause there is nothing to criticize. I just think it is not Nas best record. I will just explain why I think that "It was written" is Nas at his creative climax and why this LP is a more universal record and therefore a better one that "Illmatic".
Rewind Summer 1995. Mobb Deep -I won't explain who they are, this is not Wikipedia- had released I think in late 1994 the incredible , monumental 12 inch "Shook Ones Pt.2" and following Spring 1995 the defining New York Gangster Hip Hop LP "The Infamous". Yours Truly started studying around this time at the University of Frankfurt after getting released from the army. I spend my time with buying Hip Hop records at Freebase records in Frankfurt, studying, hanging around in student coffehouses, watching obscure movies with my best friends and making mixtapes with no actual turntable skills at all, but an ear for the vibe. AND watching Yo! MTV Raps. I do not remember clearly if it was before or after I finally got my hands on a copy of "The Infamous", but I clearly remember a episode of Yo!MTV Raps with Nas, Mobb Deep and the Cuban Links King Raekwon. Mobb Deep -I have to admit, cause I am a fan not a groupie ;)- acted like autistic retards and looked like midgets on PCP. They barely opened their mouthes when asked a question directly by this clown Ed Lover (who I hated with a passion, cause I always had his terrible LP by him with the fat Dr. Dre in front of my inner eye with a group called "Original Concept" and thought why the fuck this loser is allowed to handle this show when he even could not pull off one bearable rhyme?! On the other hand Charlie Murphy had this bizarre rap group K9 Posse and is still funny as hell. Clearly Ed Lover is not Charlie Murphy.)
Nas was there. Cool and eloquent. Perhaps a bit coked up and brought down by any form of THC. But hey it's Rock'N'Roll, if not them who else?! Raekwon...I just quote him from the Source in 1995 with the Wu-Gambino cover:"....so what!? I done sniffed blow! And I still looking good!"
Looking "good" may be in the eye of the beholder. I think he meant "capable of making a living and getting pussy while strung out on Yayo" or something like that. Raekwon's behavior clearly showed that he was about 20 years older than the little dudes from Queensbridge. He came across like a mixture between Lino Ventura and Yaphet Kotto in Wu Wear. Which has no negative aspects at all in my opinion. I don' t remenber one word about the interview...but then the obligatory "freestyle" session kicked in. It was not "free" at all. The Mobb, Nas and Rae just kicked there verses from the ice-cold Mobb deep track "Eye for An Eye" I guess Havoc tried to avoid the freestyling and had to be convinced to rhyme by Nas on air!!!! Shyness is a curse (Bobby Bacala). Mobb Deep fucked up on their own song; probably due to drug abuse. Raekwon kicked it like it was supposed to be; probably due to appropriate drug use. And Nas rhymed his lines with such a great convincing and cold delivery...it truly showed his greatness on the Mic. This was the first time I heard this lyrics:
Verse three: nas
A drug dealer’s dream
Stash cream keys on a triple beam
Five hundred sl green, ninety-five nickle gleam
Condominium, thug dressed like a gentleman
Tailor made ostrich, chanel for my women friend
Murderin, numbers on your head while I’m burglarin
Shank is servin em, whassup to all my niggaz swervin in
New york metropolis, the bridge brings apocalypse
Shoot at the clouds feels like, the holy beast is watchin us
Mad man my sanity is goin like an hourglass
Gun inside my bad hand I sliced tryin to bag grams
I got hoes that used to milk you
Niggaz who could’ve killed you
Is down with my ill crew of psychoes
Nas escobar movin on your weak production
Pumpin corruption in the third world we just bustin
"Nas Escobar" was born or rather baptized at this day. It was the Wu-Gambino era. Wu Tang gave themselves names of actual or fictional gangsters. Many names were taken. especially the Mafia names. So Nas probably sat high in a studio or car and thought: "Damn my big homies from Staten Island have all these cool names... and Nas is rather short and not so flamboyant as my lifestyle is after the paychecks from Illmatic came in. mhmmm.... QB, Drug dealing, New York, Coke, Violence, Respect ..........Scarface! Fuck already taken....Tony Montana! Not a wise move to name yourself after a dead Gangster homie of Fat Joe mhmmmm...Coke, Coke, Coke, Coke ....Pablo Escobar!!! He was a bad motherfucker. And actually exists. NAS ESCOBAR!"
I always thought that this name was very cool. Especially as a being 21-22 years old fascinated with gangster movies, violence, drugs and growing up and living in a an urban environment. Pablo Escobar -like John Gotty etc.- are those criminal or rather outlaw characters who the people can project there wishes and fears on. It is the guy who had all and lost all. The classic topos. It doesnt matter what kind of person he really was... The perception , the image of Escobar was clearly fascinating.
So Nas Escobar moved on your weak production. Nas entered the "New York 90ies Gangster Shit era" of his career and created an monumental LP. A depiction of a whole lifestyle of crime and its social surroundings. And furthermore he created a meditation on urban life, visualized city nights, created metaphors and associative word combinations and fascinating story-telling which were boundary-less.
Let's get into the world of Escobar 600.....
(Part 2 follows soon)
The Genesis
So I'm gonna start this blog today.....I love Music! I have a huge record collection and my 60 GB iPod has already reached its capacity.
Without making too many words... With this blog I wanna present my compilations and mixtapes etc. of music I love. And I will write about music in general; just getting opinions and views out there, If someone cares or not ;) Be warned: The music may range from hardcore Gangster Rap to Cool Jazz or Country. I don' give a flying fuck about subcultural boundaries. Mobb Deep are heroes to me as well as Huey Lewis.
Nothing beats a nice collection of eclectic music to set you in a certain mood. When I started listening to music consciously in my early teens, listening to a song or a whole LP always created images in my head. The music came alive. It often was like a movie with different scenes and moods. But not only the topics of the lyrics or the kind of music creates associations and images...mostly it is the sound itself which creates colors, impressions and images. Good music in my humble opinion creates vibes, images and is open to association. Not many artists reach this over the length of a LP. This may be due to commercial necessities or ill advising by producers or just because of plain old stupidity and ignorance. That's why I always thought only a compilation or a mix created by yourself can meet your personal aesthetic expectations and create a certain vibe you wish for. Cause art in general is a personal experience. It can be consumed out of the context the artist intended his work to be in. Music especially. Therefore I wanna present with this blog certain playlists of music I compiled in a certain sequence. I will comment and explain my choices and may post some covers etc. I created for these compilation cd's. But I hope to show that my mixes are compiled to acquire a certain and each time very individual purpose. #
Feel free to criticize, comment or ecstatically praise or furiously insult my choices and views ;)
Yours truly
TOS
P.S.: I will not post the music itself! I just wanna share my personal soundtrack to anybody who cares...
Without making too many words... With this blog I wanna present my compilations and mixtapes etc. of music I love. And I will write about music in general; just getting opinions and views out there, If someone cares or not ;) Be warned: The music may range from hardcore Gangster Rap to Cool Jazz or Country. I don' give a flying fuck about subcultural boundaries. Mobb Deep are heroes to me as well as Huey Lewis.
Nothing beats a nice collection of eclectic music to set you in a certain mood. When I started listening to music consciously in my early teens, listening to a song or a whole LP always created images in my head. The music came alive. It often was like a movie with different scenes and moods. But not only the topics of the lyrics or the kind of music creates associations and images...mostly it is the sound itself which creates colors, impressions and images. Good music in my humble opinion creates vibes, images and is open to association. Not many artists reach this over the length of a LP. This may be due to commercial necessities or ill advising by producers or just because of plain old stupidity and ignorance. That's why I always thought only a compilation or a mix created by yourself can meet your personal aesthetic expectations and create a certain vibe you wish for. Cause art in general is a personal experience. It can be consumed out of the context the artist intended his work to be in. Music especially. Therefore I wanna present with this blog certain playlists of music I compiled in a certain sequence. I will comment and explain my choices and may post some covers etc. I created for these compilation cd's. But I hope to show that my mixes are compiled to acquire a certain and each time very individual purpose. #
Feel free to criticize, comment or ecstatically praise or furiously insult my choices and views ;)
Yours truly
TOS
P.S.: I will not post the music itself! I just wanna share my personal soundtrack to anybody who cares...
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