playlist [30 June 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier, 30 June 2009.
Thank you, MJ, for all the tunes.
July 2, 2009
June 24, 2009
playlist [23 June 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier, 23 June 2009.
June 17, 2009
playlist [16 June 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier, 16 June 2009.
June 16, 2009
hypothesis: A great beat can elevate a mediocre rapper, a great rapper cannot elevate a mediocre beat.
Yesterday, as I was using Twitter to think aloud to myself, I came up with the above hypothesis. I can come up with countless examples where a great beat can turn a song with mediocre rhymes into a track I'd listen to over and over again, but I can't come up with a single example of a great rapper turning a track with a mediocre beat into something I'd listen to over and over again.
I may be biased, as a DJ and musician, toward preferring the beat. So I pose it to you, my very sporadic and limited readers - what's your take? Specific songs as examples would be great for discussion purposes. For example - DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Brand New Funk 2K7" with Peedi on the mic. Solid but not spectacular rhymes, with a stupid hot beat equals multiple listens. Gang Starr's "DWYCK" - widely recognized as containing one of the lamest lines Guru has ever dropped ("Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is/I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis") is something I listen to regularly because of Primo's beat.
June 12, 2009
playlist [9 June 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier. Thanks for listening to me for 10 years; I appreciate it.
June 3, 2009
playlist [2 June 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier, 2 June 2009.
May 28, 2009
playlist [26 May 2009]
Here is the playlist for the Vinyl Frontier, 26 May 2009.
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