March 13, 2009
Not sure if I can add to the discussion happening around Kutiman’s massively popular ThruYOU video experiment, except his work feels like the first strike in the beginning of something evolutionary. His work reminds me of the DangerMouse/Grey Album situation: A massively creative and original concept that found instant diehard fans and litigation lawyers; offered [...]
December 18, 2008
Another year, another list of the tunes I obsessed over. Some of these are likely to be popular picks all over the internet, but I also want to mention a bunch of albums that haven’t gotten the props they deserve. My favorite albums of 2008: 30. Cool Kids, The Bake Sale Sparse electronic samples drip [...]
December 10, 2008
Especially in light of my opinion of 808s & Heartbreaks, this free download is like a gift from the heavens. The remix of Nothin But A G Thing is pure genius. Tribe and Busta AutoTuned has to be heard to appreciate how terrible the effect really is. Evidently, I’m not the only one awaiting the [...]
November 26, 2008
Bad breakups are no excuse for AutoTune abuse. Surely, Kanye felt he could make more skilled use of this currently-in-vogue production technique than his contemporaries. But ‘Ye drenches every track in the vocal correction software, using the cold sound as a metaphor for his own emotional distance in dealing with his mom’s death and a [...]
