Wednesday, July 06, 2005
I downloaded the discography of Public Enemy last night. Man, they are so totally great. I knew this already. I hope that you do too but if you don't, better recognize. They sound so futuristic. Even today. no, they sound like the sound of future, past. Does that make sense? They sound like what we thought the future would sound like, years ago. The future does kind of sound like them, not enough like them but sorta.
It's the Bomb Squad, the production is this retarded collage of noise. Unless you've heard it it's hard to describe. Zelly is talking to me. I'm going to have to come back to this later. It's 12:18.
Back to the story. The Shockleys layered sounds over sound and used interesting off the wall parts of older songs to give P.E a familiar yet never before heard sound that set them above other rap acts of that time who seemed to run off of the saying that goes "If it sounds like something you've heard before/That's all the more reason to hit the dance floor .
Instead of relying on James and Funky Drummer, Hank and Eric used sirens, bells, whistles and sometimes even typical stuff like The JB's but in atypical ways. Listen to Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos and it's creepy sample of Isaac Hayes' Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquidalynistic and how eerie it sounds behind Chuck's tale of draft dodging incarceration for an example of how they made the usual sound anything but.
Right now i have on It Takes A Nation Of Millions... listen get it, download it, buy it, just listen to it. I don't fear that P.E is gonna go and disapear or whatev' but with Hip-Hop in the sorry state that it's in today it's crucial to hear something good from that genre every once and again
One thing about PE that I dig is how on Fear of a Black Planet they sample themselves *from the same record*. It's like a snake eating its own tail. But I still think It Takes a Nation of Millions is my favorite.
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It's the Bomb Squad, the production is this retarded collage of noise. Unless you've heard it it's hard to describe. Zelly is talking to me. I'm going to have to come back to this later. It's 12:18.
Back to the story. The Shockleys layered sounds over sound and used interesting off the wall parts of older songs to give P.E a familiar yet never before heard sound that set them above other rap acts of that time who seemed to run off of the saying that goes "If it sounds like something you've heard before/That's all the more reason to hit the dance floor .
Instead of relying on James and Funky Drummer, Hank and Eric used sirens, bells, whistles and sometimes even typical stuff like The JB's but in atypical ways. Listen to Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos and it's creepy sample of Isaac Hayes' Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquidalynistic and how eerie it sounds behind Chuck's tale of draft dodging incarceration for an example of how they made the usual sound anything but.
Right now i have on It Takes A Nation Of Millions... listen get it, download it, buy it, just listen to it. I don't fear that P.E is gonna go and disapear or whatev' but with Hip-Hop in the sorry state that it's in today it's crucial to hear something good from that genre every once and again
One thing about PE that I dig is how on Fear of a Black Planet they sample themselves *from the same record*. It's like a snake eating its own tail. But I still think It Takes a Nation of Millions is my favorite.
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