What are you listening to right now?

[eleazar]

Now this is one damn dynamic album. Holy cow!!!

Persuasive Percussion - vol 2

- a bit scratched and not in pristene condition, but still worth listening to. A bit bright but holy cow, if all records had this kind of sound ...
- I've also got vol 3, but it has no sleeve and looks really bad. We'll see.

I hear you I love these LPs I have a bunch of them but not that one.   

[2two]

Welcome, to 2Two.  Glad to have you here at AN.

Please tell us about the albums. We are interested in what you have to say about the music you enjoy. 

Okay rap music is a type of music that possesses primarily rhythm. The same way we can have melody and harmony without a rhythm, we can have rhythm without melody.

This is why rap is supported with harmonic music in the background while the performer does a chant in the foreground. The purpose of rap is to maintain the flow of the rhythm. Flow is expressed in rhyme, rhyme schemes, rhythm and cadence. Delivery also depends and refers to elements of the delivery: pitch, timbre, volume.

It's not unlike the chant in music of Bunraku Japanese puppetry where the Tayuu delivers a rousing chant and is meant to keep the characters alive and maintain the flow of the storyline and chant rhythmically in a very deliberate manner. The "stories" in good rap music represent the average black person's struggle (with racism, poverty, targeted murdering, and urban lifestyle), or a rapper's surprise and joy at sudden success where they achieved their desires (money, love interests, or other material goods).

Of course there's often other kinds of stories but this is a general idea/principle.

[BobbyP]

[BobM]

[quote author=pumpkinman
I hear you I love these LPs I have a bunch of them but not that one.  


Unfortunately the Vol 3, and the Persuasive Piano and the Provocative Drums are all too scratched and ruined to enjoy.

[BobM]

Haydn - Surprise and Drumroll synphonies
- another nice Columbia 6 eye in decent enough shape

[etcarroll]

Now that you have the 16.5, you'll have to have Bill teach you how to steam records.

[allenzachary]

Welcome, to 2Two.  Glad to have you here at AN.

Please tell us about the albums. We are interested in what you have to say about the music you enjoy. 

Okay rap music is a type of music that possesses primarily rhythm. The same way we can have melody and harmony without a rhythm, we can have rhythm without melody.

This is why rap is supported with harmonic music in the background while the performer does a chant in the foreground. The purpose of rap is to maintain the flow of the rhythm. Flow is expressed in rhyme, rhyme schemes, rhythm and cadence. Delivery also depends and refers to elements of the delivery: pitch, timbre, volume.

It's not unlike the chant in music of Bunraku Japanese puppetry where the Tayuu delivers a rousing chant and is meant to keep the characters alive and maintain the flow of the storyline and chant rhythmically in a very deliberate manner. The "stories" in good rap music represent the average black person's struggle (with racism, poverty, targeted murdering, and urban lifestyle), or a rapper's surprise and joy at sudden success where they achieved their desires (money, love interests, or other material goods).

Of course there's often other kinds of stories but this is a general idea/principle.

I've read quite a bit about rap and hip-hop, but nothing I've seen sums it up as clearly and concisely as your description.

I'm interested in what you think about the albums themselves, especially now that I see you are such a good writer.  Tell us what you think of the records you are playing in context to to what you said about rap. Are the records you've listened to worth your time?  Ours?  Recommendations?   

[BobbyP]

  Samples

[Barry (NJ)]

"Touch Yello" Yello | Format: Audio CD

[Barry (NJ)]

Welcome, to 2Two.  Glad to have you here at AN.

Please tell us about the albums. We are interested in what you have to say about the music you enjoy. 

Hmmm... It's rare that folks post much about the album. Most don't even post a link to Amazon or All Music so that you can read a bit about it, or even type out the artist and title to make searching for it easy... Just my observation...

[satfrat]

I'm interested in what you think about the albums themselves, especially now that I see you are such a good writer.  Tell us what you think of the records you are playing in context to to what you said about rap. Are the records you've listened to worth your time?  Ours?  Recommendations?   

Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (2001)



Bad ass foul mouthed white boy headcase but boy can the man rap! 

SAMPLES

Cheers,
Robin

[eleazar]

Warren Kime ~ Brass Impact



Warren Kime, an orchestra leader, trumpeter, flügelhornist, and arranger from Chicago, brought a tape to Command and subsequently made a startling debut on a major record label. He made three unique, exciting Brass Impact records: Brass Impact, Explosive Brass Impact, and Goin' Someplace!. Each had three major horn groups (trumpet, flügelhorn, and trombone). Each also had, in addition to brass and woodwinds, modern rhythm and even the "wordless choruses" associated with Esquivel and Bob Thompson. These were supplied by three women, one of whom was Donna Kime, Warren's wife.

Kime's "Brass Choir" was one of the earliest, most assured, and definitive of the late-'60s exponents of the "mod" sound typified by Bob Crewe's treatment of Music to Watch Girls By. Take Herb Alpert, strip out most of the Latin elements, substitute the perky madness of Esquivel's chorus, and you have Brass Impact. It does have impact. At times, particularly in some treatments of then-popular sambas, Kime achieves the bombast of Quincy Jones' and Roland Kirk's classic "Soul Bossa Nova," but without the soul. Fortunately, Kime seems to have caught Command between its fascinations with stereo and quadrophonic channel separation; here the focus simply is on developing the "now sound" with easy listening for parents of the Woodstock generation. ABC/Command issued a two-fer in 1973 titled Dynamic Brass Impact.

BobM I like (much to my surprise) and have all 3 Brass Impact records. I like you found one of them in a box of LPs given to me by a 90 year old man. We have become good friends and I visit him whenever I have the time. It took me several years to locate the other two lps.........Bill

Command Album Discography
http://www.bsnpubs.com/abc/command.html

Project 3 Discography
http://yktc.us/MusicRack/33/Label%20List/Project3/list%20Project%203.html

[2two]

Welcome, to 2Two.  Glad to have you here at AN.

Please tell us about the albums. We are interested in what you have to say about the music you enjoy. 

Hmmm... It's rare that folks post much about the album. Most don't even post a link to Amazon or All Music so that you can read a bit about it, or even type out the artist and title to make searching for it easy... Just my observation...

My observation also. Am I being singled out due to my taste in music ?

[eleazar]

Welcome, to 2Two.  Glad to have you here at AN.

Please tell us about the albums. We are interested in what you have to say about the music you enjoy. 

Hmmm... It's rare that folks post much about the album. Most don't even post a link to Amazon or All Music so that you can read a bit about it, or even type out the artist and title to make searching for it easy... Just my observation...

My observation also. Am I being singled out due to my taste in music ?

I don't think so 2Two. I think they are genuinely interested in what you like musically. You'll find people here are helpful and friendly.......Bill

[eleazar]

One more LP and then it will be time to get ready for the day.

Enoch Light & The Light Brigade
A New Concept Of Cole porter Songs