questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

[4linehaiku]

There's some guys called the bays who do that.
http://www.thebays.com/profiles.html

Its all improvised I think, but they're aiming to be more like a DJ set than individual songs.

I saw them at Glade a few years ago.
They were pretty dull.

Edit: Damn you hucks!

 

[hucks]

Damn me indeed...

Yeah, they are rubbish, tho

 

[MatthewH]

Perhaps this has come up elsewhere but what's with the reggae obsession with soundboys? Taken on face value it looks like there's some kind of fatwa against them.

 

[Slothrop]

Perhaps this has come up elsewhere but what's with the reggae obsession with soundboys? Taken on face value it looks like there's some kind of fatwa against them.

It's just a diminutive version of soundman isn't it? Soundman is the general job description, soundboy is someone who's not really big enough to do it properly. If postmen clashed they'd probably call each other 'postboy'.

 

[MatthewH]

That part makes sense - I'm just wondering why the general hate towards sound people in general.

I'm just listening to tracks on Boomkat and came across the perfect example:

Track 6: Death to a Soundboy

 

[Tentative Andy]

Other people could answer this better, but 'soundboy' here just means 'other soundboy', doesn't it? I.e. it's a clashing thing, a way of saying that you're the real top soundboy.

 

[MatthewH]

Ah, so it's like rappers talking about killing (other) MCs. Ok, that makes sense now.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Actually, while we're on the subject of stuff in the JA tradition, here's another one -
The dancehall a capella that's been sampled on a few jungle and garage tunes, it goes something along the lines of 'special request to all the gyal dem from north, south, east and west, bruk wile, bruk a man's spine' (plus some other bits I forget) - where does it come from?
If I understand correctly, it's Top Cat that does it, but I don't know what the record it was originally on was called.


Edit: for reference, this tune seems to have the a capella in full at the start. Prob more helpful than my garbled paraphrase -

 

[matmustard]

^ T'is indeed Top Cat - Request The Style

 

[Tentative Andy]

^ T'is indeed Top Cat - Request The Style

Yes! Many thanks mat, been dying to know that one for a while now.
The song is pretty neat too, good stuff.

 

[woops]

If postmen clashed they'd probably call each other 'postboy'.

Yes and they'd do a lot of 'sending' too. But seriously, folks...

 

[Tentative Andy]

Yes and they'd do a lot of 'sending' too. But seriously, folks...

I've often thought that 'sendspace' the file-sharing site should really be a service for grime on-line networking.
I need to get out more...

 

[mms]

Are there any bands that expose their music (which could easily be recorded) only at live events?

Might be a way to compensate for dwindling physical sales by supercharging personal appearances: 'X will be touring their new 'album' Y, whose songs will never be recorded nor released...'



I'd go.

there is that ultracult japanese band les rallizes denudes, who have never officially released an album, very reclusive, come from far left japanese art leanings.
http://noise.as/rallizes

 

[woops]

'postboy' can also double as a putdown for triflin' contributors to internet message boards.

 

[massrock]

We tried to bring armshouse to your mum's house but you were out...

 

[swears]

What is the amazing synth-dub sounding tune (or riddim or whatever) starting properly at about 0:48 on this?


Can't embed, sorry.

 

[swears]

C'mon... one of the reggae spods must know!

 

[john eden]

I listened but it was a bit too fucked up to tell. Cool tho.

 

[matt b]

Not a clue, sorry.


Droid will know...

 

[crofton]

sounds like a lick of "run down the world" to me, couldn't say which one tho.