Beat Laments The World

One of those days

Posted on June 19th, 2013 17:26 by wu
Categories: Personal
Tags: Damu The Fudgemunk, hip-hop

It’s a hot and humid day outside my window right now and all I feel like doing is monging out with a couple of cold beers, listening to some of my favourite beats and, if the sunshine should inspire, perhaps get around to laying down my own tracks — although I’m currently without an MPC.

So lets just leave the beatmaking to Damu and his Akai 2000 this time around.

Whether or not the few posts that I wanted to write up today get done might hinge on how quickly the brewskies in the fridge cool down.

Things that I’ve been meaning to get to

Posted on June 17th, 2013 21:21 by wu
Categories: K-music, Korea
Tags: 4minute, After School, Nine Muses, Park Myungsoo, You're My Girl, 나인뮤지스, 박명수, 와일드 (Wild), 이름이 뭐예요? (What's Your Name?), 첫사랑 (First Love)

So I’m finally doing this post, a round-up of items that I said I’d get to bet never did, and items that I never said I’d get to but wanted to get to — get it?

Geez, Wu, you’ve lost them already.

I’ll try and keep this as brief as I possibly can to spare everyone too much hassle, but hopefully I can still come up with something halfway decent.

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SPECIAL OTHERS – neon

Posted on June 17th, 2013 12:25 by wu
Categories: J-music, Japan
Tags: j-rock, neon, Special Others

I got to this one half-drunk at the end of last week, and whilst the cheap beer was working its magic and leaving me in a state of being whereby all music suddenly started taking on exrta levels of awesome, there was never a doubt that SPECIAL OTHERS’ latest song, ”neon”, would rock my world.

Well it’s now Monday morning, there’s no longer any alcohol in sight (yet), and ”neon” still rocks my world in much the same way — granted, I’m not dancing in my chair this time around, splashing a drink over my desk.

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So the jazz-rock outfit deliver another delicious jam, and whilst it isn’t as spasmodic as some jazz enthusiasts might like, I often find it refreshing that SPECIAL OTHERS tend to keep their playing tight and relatively diciplined. Saying all that, there’s still room for little bits of whimsy and wandering when Dayo and Remi want to weave something-something on their guitar and keyboard, or when Toyin wants to change up the pace and direction a smidge.

Now I’m never quite sure what’s happening in the PV, but that hardly matters to me.

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