it's rare that i'll get past a few seconds of a hip-hop record, but this instantly seemed more interesting than your average hip-hop and i actually sort of like this. is it even hip-hop? i think you'd have to label it that way in the end, but it's drawing pretty liberally from free jazz, from very early skinny puppy (as you might hear on brap) and a little bit from the anthromusicology (ok. ethnomusicology, then.) of those early byrne/eno projects. the result is hip-hop in the same way that something like die warzau was, meaning there's likely to be a large crossover with industrial, in terms of fan bases.

i kind of didn't think that music like this existed any more....

https://racehorsesareresources.bandcamp.com/album/rrr-lp1

listen.

you don't have to like me. but, you do have to realize that i have upwards of 60 university credits (in canada, a three year degree is 15 credits), which makes me an unusually educated person.

so, suggestions that i'm an uneducated ignoramus should really reflect the speaker; when somebody with 60 credits writes you a well researched screed, and your response is "but you're stupid", it kind of asterisks your own ignorance, doesn't it?

as mentioned repeatedly, this isn't a new thing for me. we live in a society where the media creates reality out of nothing. i'd rather cite chomsky than use facile terms like "fake news", but you need to realize that this is merely a recent iteration of a longstanding realization that even precedes orwell, who is the actual bottleneck here. the media doesn't describe reality, it creates it, and very few people walking around out there seem to spend much energy trying to counter this, or much time thinking for themselves. i am going to blame them; i'm not going to let them argue that they don't have time, because they're too busy working. but, the amount of time that capitalism steals from us all doesn't help anybody learn how to think more clearly.

all i can do is what i've always done, which is try to correct the propaganda as best i can. in the end, you still have to decide what you believe and what you don't, and all i can do is ask you to be rigorous about it.

i have to admit that i'm not at all familiar with her work in a past life as a drummer, but the bit of sound i can find on the internet of this particular project seems to be a little bit lacking - there's hints of more developed or more abstract sound construction, but a lot of it is a little aimless, even by the genre's standards.

the particular combination of ambience with stringed instruments, though, actually reminds me of some of my own work, particularly my seventh symphony, trepanation nation, which was first written in 2002. so, i wonder if this is some of the stuff that i heard shettler spin at marble and reminded me of myself, as i was dealing with the consequences of randomly scarfing down random edibles. he's putting on the show, so there's some chance...

as mentioned: it's january, and this is the far bar. it's unseasonably warm right now, but it's still sub-freezing when the sun sets, at around 17:00. so, i'd have to get my bike fixed, and then weather an overnight on a tuesday in the cold. it doesn't seem worth it....

it may be relatively interesting, though, so if the logistics are less complex for you...

https://soundcloud.com/venisonwhirled

it's the start of a new month, so it's time to see if there's anything happening in detroit that may interest me over the next few weeks.

while it's very, very difficult to get me out of the house at this time of the year, and as such i probably won't be going anywhere for quite a while, long enough that i may even consider buying tickets for shows in the spring, i will nonetheless do a survey of some stuff that's happening in a few spots.

but, i'm actually trying to fast track through the last two months of the first rebuild so i can get on with it, and let's see how that works itself out.