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| - | [[Uncertain Times]] reacts to my [[TAFKAP]] post[http://un-certaintimes.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-youtube-prince-formerly-known-and.html]. And posts [[World music classic|wm classic]] #55; "[[Tainted Love]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U&] by [[Gloria Jones]]. I'd like to throw in [[Ann Peebles]]'s "[[I Can't Stand the Rain (song)|I Can't Stand the Rain]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCrA5Lq5XU&] and [[O. V. Wright]]'s version[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4HycGdfrc&] of [[Latimore]]'s "[[Let's Straighten it Out]]" as number 56 and 57. | + | "'''Kentucky Skank'''" is a musical composition by [[Lee Perry]], featured on his album ''[[Double Seven]]'' |
| - | The "Rain" track by Peebles is a curious example of an 808-sounding bassline (but more probably generated by a minimoog) which can also be heard on "[[Why Can't We Live Together?]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrz4RFDhjA] (which was [[wmc]] #2) and some of [[Lee "Scratch" Perry |Perry]]'s work, such as "[[Kentucky Skank]]". | + | It has been interpreted as Perry's homage to [[KFC]] complete with deep frying sizzling sound effects. |
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| - | [[Ann Peebles]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCrA5Lq5XU | + | |
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| - | ''[[The Fold]]'' (2008) will [[premiere]] [[2008 August 3]]. It is an erotically-based science fiction series. | + | |
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| - | I may have dismissed [[Philip Sherburne]]'s piece on the current state of beats too quickly in my recent comment.[http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/the-prince-copyright-controversy-and-wmc-54/#comment-31163] | + | |
| - | The piece came my way via [[Simon Reynolds]][http://blissout.blogspot.com/2008/07/philip-sherburne-addresses-malaise-in.html] a couple of days back: | + | [[Category:WMC]] |
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| - | :"[[Philip Sherburne]] addresses the [[malaise]] in [[electronic dance]] culture (i didn't know the [[music industry|economic side]] of it had gotten that [[parlous]]) and convenes a kind of brain trust to come up with remedies. --[[Simon Reynolds]] | + | |
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| - | And thus starts Sherburne's piece: | + | |
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| - | "[[Everything]] feels [[fucked up]]. The [[environment]], the [[economy]], [[war]], [[terrorism]], ..." --[[Philip Sherburne]] [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/142152-the-month-in-techno] | + | |
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| - | Regarding the [[music industry|economic side]] Sherburne says: | + | |
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| - | :"Still, dance music is suffering from some very real maladies, many of them economic. Record sales are declining-- labels that once could confidently move 1,000 copies of a 12" single now struggle to sell 250-- and legal downloads, while presumably growing, aren't taking up the slack." | + | |
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| - | As I said in my comment I find it hard to imagine that beats are going out of fashion. | + | |
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| - | Witness these beats set to [[The Stones]]'s "[[You Can't Always Get What You Want]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0DVU0xEr0] [[remix]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCm5A5FTe0] by Belgian [[dance-punk]]ers [[Soulwax]]. Listen for the choral arrangements by [[Jack Nitzsche]]. | + | |
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| - | Regarding beats going out of fashion from a theoretical point of view. | + | |
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| - | The [[beat]] is a [[celebration]] of [[dance]], dance is a celebration of [[hedonism]]. Hedonism flourishes in [[economic boom]]s. Today is an era of [[poverty]]. Beats do not fit in poverty. Perhaps. But. Counter example one: the beats of [[Lindy Hop]] during [[Great Depression|Depression America]]. So evidence inconclusive, but if I had to investigate I would follow the economic boom/malaise route. | + | |
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"Kentucky Skank" is a musical composition by Lee Perry, featured on his album Double Seven
It has been interpreted as Perry's homage to KFC complete with deep frying sizzling sound effects.
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