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Re: Kanye West and King Crimson
Title: Re: Kanye West and King
Crimson
Kanye West's videos are works of art... really inventive
and beautiful...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5iA4Zupek&feature=channel
>dude come out with your own music and
stop taking others...it's just bad karma.
Dull old opinion...
I must say that this guy holds very
little interest to me musically, but sampling KC ain't no crime in my
book... he's written many originals too.
One more thing , West made a video a
number of years back using a very obscure and cool effect, wrongly
called data-moshing. It's a very edoteric effect based on
removing the keyframes from videos so they dont update nee
information, and although HE didn't personally make his own video, it
showed to me that the guy has some genuine interest in doing
experimental things.
Strange to lambast one of the least
offensive artists of the time.
Mark
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On 12 Dec 2010, at 08:42, Jeffrey Collins <jeffreycollins1975@gmail.com> wrote:
just took a listen and realized I had
heard that a while back. and was pissed about it then. dude come out
with your own music and stop taking others...it's just bad karma.
Jeffrey
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Toby G
<carpet8@mac.com> wrote:
It will be interesting to see
if people start buying Crimson music due to this. Naahh...to
complex for them.
toby
----- Original Message -----
From: Art
Simon
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:10
PM
Subject: OT: Kanye West and King
Crimson
I'm out of touch with popular music, and I'd never
listened to Kanye West until, well, two days ago.
On his latest album he has a song "Power" where he samples
King Crimson. That got my interest. But there's more to it than just
the sample. Here's a quote from a review:
"But more important is the hook that anchors the song. It sounds
like a vocal re-creation of the King Crimson song's monster guitar
hook; but as it's been transformed, it invokes another acute examiner
of current cultural-political dramas: M.I.A. The hook's hand claps and
feminine tone -- as well as the Symbolyc One-co-produced track's whole
sound, much more redolent of global hip-hop than of electroclash,
which West may have left behind -- sets West's verbal tirade within
M.I.A.'s larger context of global oppression and resistance by people
of color. Justified? Maybe not. But it's a typically bold Kanye
leap."
I think it's great. Anybody else out there think anything of this
song?
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