For all you hip hop/rap heads out there, thoughts on Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.? I think it's pretty good but not as good as his previous album, To Pimp A Butterfly. Kendrick is one of my favorite rappers though, alongside J.Cole, Nas and Chance the Rapper. The meaning behind his verses though, deep as fuck. You could really feel his passion towards the music industry and how it affects his personal life. Not as good as the imagery and metaphors in tpab though. Also, how's Drake's More Life?
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been into classical a lot lately, especially Seji Ozawa's recordings (reading Murakami - Absolutely on music). Digging the breakcore, especially the first one. Will maybe give the first three a listen after getting through my backlog of all the mahler symphonies, the nutcracker, and tristan & isolde.
it's so much easier to download music than to listen to it
I like Gardiners recordings of early romantic music. Authentic early music is a thing, but authentic romantic music still has some way to go. People mostly play romantic music as it's performed today, not how it was performed then. Nowadays there's a lot of focus on the technical aspects of orchestra playing and maybe that takes away from the music. I like to think gardiner is a bit closer to that ideal. Maybe I'm wrong though.
only just lately? lol
ive been listening to a lot of random mp3s lying around in old (e)mailing lists, blogs, and wikis of microtonal crap.
http://ripnread.com/listen/sing53-c5-slow.mp3
I actually love this, not sure what about it gets me
also small doses of Wyschnegradsky's preludes (sp probably), Ezra sims, always Ben Johnston
and i bought the Silk Road's when strangers meet hat they came out with like forever ago that i listen to all the time in the car
personally i am not a huge fan of big concertos in regards of classical music, in terms of classic music i prefer solo performances or duets and also piano concertos
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awesome experimental album