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2012-12-01 12:16 pm, comment by waxbanks

@floydwilkey said:

I find myself seeking out waxbank's reviews both here and on his site. Love his insight. That said, I have read through the sampling posted on Amazon and find myself having to constantly wikipedia references (Zappa's famous question? (still haven't figured that one out), who did Endtroducing) dropped in the book.

heh -- sorry about that. i've probably got an unhealthily high tolerance for open questions in my essays.

zappa's famous question -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_Humor_Belong_in_Music%3F_(album) />
endtroducing... is an important album, but that doesn't matter because it's AWESOME. shadow was part of a collective of bay area badasses including Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious), Latyrx, et al. -- you can uncharitably call them 'hip hop guys that white folks namecheck to seem culture-savvy' but Gift of Gab really is one of the best pure rhymers going. endtroducing is a moody atmospheric instrumental album; it's not bedroom music, really, but it has an intimate intensity well beyond its sheer technical achievement. it seemed relevant, as i was writing, because it goes from hammering industrial sounds to groovy sad-sex beats without breaking emotional continuity.

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