Simon silverdollarcircle

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not sure i'd buy any of these on the strength of the artwork

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Fucking graphic designers.
 

luka

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i really beleive it too. they disgust me like no other class of person. theyre worse than landlords, executioners and torturers.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
jesus christ that marquis hawkes asshole

off-topic rant incoming so just skip if you want, but even tho it's just some dumb house record from 8 years ago it makes me angry as a Chicagoan

Cabrini-Green was not just "some housing estate in Chicago". it was a nationally famous emblem of everything wrong with housing projects, a dog whistle bogeyman. Candyman used it as a synonym for urban deprivation. in the early 80s the mayor briefly and infamously moved into an apartment there as a publicity stunt (supposedly after she moved out, drug dealers took over the apartment the cops had heavily fortified for her, tho that part may be urban legend). long since torn down - besides one very sad, fenced in, heavily policed stretch of rowhouses - and turned into luxury housing for yuppies, along with a couple token mixed-income buildings. I find it hard to believe some European asshole doing Chicago house pastiche would randomly settle on it. there are (or were) plenty of housing projects, as we call estates in the city. why not call your record Robert Taylor Homes or Stateway Gardens, or some other equally fucked up, long since demolished, less famous place? why not just call yourself Jackmaster [random noun] (Legowelt has such a record, iirc)? no, it's what Cabrini signified, and Marquis Hawkes sounds like a fucking 1970s blacksploitation pimp. fuck Mark Hawkins.

the other stuff in that article is gross too but that one is just unbelievable // rant over

the real Cabrini-Green (and a great piece of mid-80s drum machine rap a la "PSK" or Eazy-E, if you fancy that kind of thing)
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
on-topic, I've heard Legowelt bits I've liked over the years. nothing that really sticks, tho.

I mean that's kinda his deal - enjoyable, prolific and technically impressive pastiche, but generally not a patch on the original

being mad for anything to do with zouk, I like this one, a simple, banging refix of an 80s pop zouk girl group
 
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