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    Everyone's a DJ (MC) These days?

    Slightly off topic but am the same re: podcasts (you should check out The Champs if you don't already listen to it - any recommendations in terms of US Comedy/Hip Hop/Politics would be appreciated as well). I don't think its related to a desire for personal contact though for me, if anything it...
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    2013 > 013 > 130

    Cant you (or someone) just give it a name? Using a tempo as a name for a genuine 'thing' is constrictive or at best confusing.
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    Music 2013

    That first album in particular was really strong - Cry Me a River is flawless. I was surprised when I saw that it would be solely Timbaland-produced given that Timbaland seems to be a few years into a steady decline (this is where he is now: ). But then who do you go to now for quality Pop/R&B...
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    The Prince Thread.

    Trying to blindly ascribe influence is pretty pointless (despite it seemingly being a favourite past-time of music journos) but Prince was one of the first to introduce RnB that ignored bass as a rhythmic device and drew all the focus to big drums and a simple catchy, melodic keyboard hook -...
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    Albums of the year 2012

    A lot of R.I.P. reminded me of those 'click on the boxes and make music' apps: http://www.jeffwu.net/?page_id=967
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    Roiling football blather

    That commentary is immense!
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    Hip-Hop 2012

    I get the impression that Dre's status plays a part though - he probably made 'Hate it or Love It' sound that bit cleaner so it punched through better on radio. Im sure if he'd been a no-name engineer then Cool and Dre wouldnt have been like 'damn this mix has transformed the song, we need to...
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    Hip-Hop 2012

    I was thinking about this when I heard Annie Mac talking about 'Trap' a couple of months ago - I got the impression from how she was talking about it that if I were to play her a Lex Luger beat she probably wouldn't recognise it as 'Trap'.
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    Hip-Hop 2012

    I spent way too large a part of my late teens, stoned somewhere, listening to really average rappers with horrible cadence rhyme 'lyrical' with 'metaphysical'. I cant imagine what it would be like to grow up in NY/Atlanta/LA etc where at least a couple of the people around you might be decent...
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    Hip-Hop 2012

    I find 2 Chainz wholly forgettable despite trying to pay attention to him. Fair play to the guy for the late career resurgence though. God Forgives is really plastic and dull but worth a listen just for Andre 3000's verse on Sixteen.
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    David Guetta - can someone explain?

    Like a G6 is great, I could play that in a wedding set and not feel like I had lost integrity - I couldn't say the same for any of the Guetta tunes I've heard though. All this stuff is like musical jagermeister - if you're at home, sober, looking for depth in the music then you're not really...
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    rolling back to the future garage/post-dubstep/alt-funkstep/intelli-2step etc thread

    I really don't get Disclosure at all but they're the first producers to break that've been roughly 10 years younger than me so I guess Im just getting old.
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    Euro 2012

    So are you saying that England's defence is weak compared to other Euro 2012 teams? Terry obviously doesnt have the pace he used to but I'd still pick him ahead of Per Mertesacker for instance. Imo England have a stronger defence than Germany and Spain, they are just an incoherent mess...
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    Euro 2012

    Did you watch the first leg of Barcelona v Chelsea? Cahill, Terry and Cole were brilliant in that game. I know the supposed lessons of Chelsea's Champs league win can be easily overstated, but if those 3 can reproduce that sort of form, with Hart in goal, England should have a strong defensive unit.
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    Euro 2012

    Its good to see so little hype regarding England's chances. I do think England potentially have one of the best defences in the competition in Terry, Cahill, Cole and Johnson though (as much as I hate the fact Terry is going). I can see England losing all the group games and can also just about...
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