CaucaasianMUZIK
Recently, my love for Gucci Mane has known no bounds.
Insane beat. Glockenspiels drowning in a swirling pool of reverb. Mmm…
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Something new… full-length physical release coming soon.
Going to Shanghai this summer to see my Dad who’s just moved over there. Planning on bringing my MP, a microphone and cassette recorder and getting some poems/raps/singing/whatever over some of my music.
One of my strongest memories from first school revolves around this song and the album Since I Left You by The Avalanches.
My first school that I went to from nursery until I was 10 was a tiny place. There was four people in my year group and it was situated out in the depths of the countryside, with no public transport for miles around. Occasionally, we’d have a supply teacher come in if one of the other teachers was ill. She was a local, very well-educated woman and everyone at school loved when she came in to teach. As it was a Church of England school, we had several prayers every day, but hers were different to the normal ones; she seemed more concerned with praying for community and humanism than a divine creator, which seemed a lot more fun to me.
I lived 5 minutes drive from school, and she lived not too far away from my house. One afternoon for some reason, she drove me home. In the car, she asked me what I’d like to listen to. Sitting in the backseat, this CD was lying by my feet so I handed it to her and asked her to play it because I liked the artwork. It obviously wasn’t a long journey, but there was just enough time to hear this first track out from start to finish and I remember thinking how amazing it sounded.
It doesn’t seemed to have aged one bit, and everytime I play it, I remember driving through the countryside with the sun shining, looking out the window.
After listening to Lil B’s God’s Father mixtape so many times and always wondering what the sample from “Bitch I’m Bussin’” was, I went and found out. Finding it was from the Donnie Darko OST prompted me to go back and watch the film again since it’s been so long since I last saw it. It’s got my brain buzzing with a million ideas. I can never believe the beats that Lil B chooses to use as well; using Yukiko Okada, Donnie Darko; it just blows my mind.
Three Bears & The Rainbow Waterfall
Last night I had a dream that there was a bear who lived in a city, and a bear that lived in the countryside. The city and the countryside was connected by a huge, flowing river with many plateaus and waterfalls. One day, the bear from the city decided to travel out to the countryside, following the path of the river and walking alongside it. He had an inescapable desire to tell the bears living in the countryside of the beauty that awaited them in the city.
When he arrived in the countryside, there was another bear there who, after hearing of the city-bear’s stories, was eager to travel with him to the city. I was also a countryside-dwelling bear in the dream and I too wanted to travel to the city.
So the three of us began to swim downriver. The river and all of our surroundings looked very artistically designed; the waves of the river were coloured a deep blue, and there was evidence of pencil-drawn lines on them; the sky was a light shade of purple, and the water moved in a way that it looked like it was from an animated film.
After being taken with the current downstream a little, we reached an uphill section in which the current dragged us back the way we came, so we had to swim very hard to counteract this. As we approached the peak of this backwards piece of river, a naturally-occurring stone structure came into view above us through which the water flowed. The structure was large and roughly circular, allowing the water to flow straight through the centre of it. Through the opening of the structure, the lights of the city came into view. They were an array of neon and pastel colours and seemed to gently oscillate and ping around before my eyes. The peak of the river gave way at its summit to a waterfall, and as we approached I felt myself waiting to fall off, like some sort of vertigo-orgasm.
I looked over the edge of the waterfall as the three of us jumped off. I crashed into the water below and was fully submerged underwater. I could see plant life and fish under there, all coloured in the same pastel/neon theme that was apparent above water, leaving pencil-line trails as they moved. I rose from the water to see yet another waterfall, from which I jumped again. The waterfalls were such a joy; like a rollercoaster, I was scared but enthralled at the same time and each one brought a new rush of excitement.
Several waterfalls later, we reached a long plateau. The river stretched out as far as you could see, connecting our current location to the city lights in the distance. The other bear and I from the countryside stopped for a moment though, as we realised the city-bear was no longer with us. We crawled out onto a patch of grass beside the river and looked up at the vast series of waterfalls and pools that towered above us, but saw no sign of him. He must have got lost, or killed, or simply decided to turn back somewhere along the way.
Halfway between the the lights and the darkness, we were stranded.
MAD SKILLS
Another way of entertaining yourself with vinyl… Dope!
Can’t imagine how long it must have taken them to put this video together. Insane.
Officially the most fucking insane match of football I’ve ever seen in my life. Two goals in injury time to clinch the title on goal difference? Agüero’s finish was some kind of divine intervention. Don’t think I’ve ever screamed so much at a goal from another team.
(Source: lovesoccerlovelife)
Absolutely ballin’. I spoke to one of my lecturers who’s friends with one of the members of Sigur Rós and has collaborated with Amiina, and he says this will be the band’s last album. Seems only right that they’d go out on a high.
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