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slevelt

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Combined Historian . teaches . #AngloDutch . he/him . funcrusher

will post hiphop

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slevelt, to vinyl
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#NowPlaying Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin #vinyl #jazz @vinylrecords

slevelt, to HipHop
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#NowPlaying #HipHop @vinylrecords

slevelt, to HipHop
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I am old enough to remember the time diss tracks came out a year apart, and it was often hard as hell to work out the chronology between disses and responses. 😅

slevelt,
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@mxtthxw hahaha THIS. and also a match and a little bit of gasoline.

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ok, let’s share some our favourite pre-streaming ! I’ll set the tone with the hardest-hitting I think I know: No Vaseline. this came out and you just knew the war was over; r.i.p. NWA. https://youtu.be/rSK8jTzl1Kw?si=yCnilyk4dSIDUzUX

slevelt,
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@mxtthxw “kudos Tim Dog!” 🤣🤣🤣

slevelt, to HipHop
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NB I first heard Pass the Dutchie -well, a snippet of it- as sample in Public Enemy’s Revolutionary Generation.

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slevelt, to vinyl
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today’s vintage store find - this generation rules the nation!

Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie @vinylrecords

hugo, to random
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any recommendations out there for good and/ or interesting readings on utopia?

slevelt,
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@hugo for Utopia as a subject of intellectual play among like-minded early modern Europeans, I love the history of Ortelius’ Utopia map. See here for a description, background, and references: https://orteliusmaps.com/book/ort234.html @bookstodon

slevelt,
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@hugo @bookstodon it’s an amazing creation, and a precarious survival. I wrote some words about it (as well as about the Erasmus - Moore friendship underpinning Utopia itself) in my own book, North Sea Crossings.

slevelt, to animals
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“I'll put it this way, I underestimated the power of the cat on the Internet.” - El-P

Perez Prado and his Orchestra were there long before Meow the Jewels.

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JoscelynTransient, to music
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Super random question: Are there any or musical artists people would suggest that play with horror/dark fantasy/goth-y themes?

I just realized that while I know so many other genres that cross over into horror themes (from psychobilly to hyperpop), I can't name any that are more rooted in Hip Hop, Rap, or R & B. I gotta imagine that there's someone crossing over into these themes. I mean, MF Doom did amazing things playing with superhero and fantasy, gotta imagine there's someone who has done similar with horror.

slevelt,
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@JoscelynTransient good question! there are a number - the first that went there with dedication were Gravediggaz (originally collaboration of Prince Paul, RZA and Frukwan); more recently Dope DOD, and Clipping. Kool Keith also on some of his many, many records.

slevelt, to HipHop
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a copy of Ice-T’s Power on vinted, with a specific part of the cover repurposed 🤣
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slevelt, to vinyl
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Steel Pulse – Handsworth Revolution @vinylrecords

I think more than any genre I am at the moment enjoying on – also, I have so much still to discover here; to my shame I only vaguely knew this fantastic Birmingham (UK) band until recently.

Vinyl record cover of a collection by Steel Pulse, with a drawing of the band members as fishermen. The music playing is the reggae song 'Handsworth Revolution' by Steel Pulse, with an instrumental intro, and then a sung part: 'I say the people of Handsworth, know that / One hand wash the other so they say / So let's join hands my bredren'.

slevelt, to vinyl
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good morning! Miles Davis - We Want Miles @vinylrecords

one of the records I grew up with, courtesy of my budding trumpet player older brother, and still one of my absolute favourites, so I got myself my own copy.

slevelt, to vinyl
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good morning! Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else @vinylrecords

I love Cannonball Adderley and in particular his collaborations with his brother Nat, but on this instead we get Miles Davis on probably the best record where he’s credited as session musician.

slevelt, to HipHop
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an intermittent 🧵 of great 90s by acts that never made it big. please add yours!

Channel Live - Reprogram https://youtu.be/14fwSAqxLrU (prod. KRS-One)

slevelt, to HipHop
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always sounds to me like so much of 90s West Coast #HipHop tracks its sound and aesthetic to Roy Ayers. e.g., Dr Dre only sampled this track once, for a Detox track, but I can't help suspecting he took much more from it for his sound.

the "my life, my life, my life" tag was true Cali staple, used by Tupac, Ice Cube, Mc Eiht ("my life, my life, my life, with a tech nine").

#NowPlaying Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine #vinyl @vinylrecords

Record cover of Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine, with a photograph of the artist in a yellow t-shirt. The music playing is the title track, with a low bass grove, a piano riff, and a high-pitched continuous synthesiser sound. The lyrics start with "my life, my life, my life, in the sunshine".

slevelt,
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recorded, by the way, at Electric Lady in New York, but that doesn't make it any less Southern Californian. @vinylrecords

slevelt,
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/19/how-we-made-roy-ayers-everybody-loves-the-sunshine is a lovely read on this track -- "Roy would record after gigs, from midnight through to the morning. He thought musicians played better when they were tired, because they wouldn’t be thinking about anything." @vinylrecords

slevelt, to HipHop
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always sounds to me like so much of 90s West Coast #HipHop tracks its sound and aesthetic to Roy Ayers. e.g., Dr Dre only sampled this track once, for a Detox track, but I can't help suspecting he took much more from it for his sound.

the "my life, my life, my life" tag was true Cali staple, used by Tupac, Ice Cube, Mc Eiht ("my life, my life, my life, with a tech nine").

#NowPlaying Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine #vinyl @vinylrecords

Record cover of Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine, with a photograph of the artist in a yellow t-shirt. The music playing is the title track, with a low bass grove, a piano riff, and a high-pitched continuous synthesiser sound. The lyrics start with "my life, my life, my life, in the sunshine".

slevelt, to vinyl
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weather has turned back to standard UK fare, so to compensate Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine @vinylrecords

slevelt, to vinylrecords
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I know fewer tracks make for (potentially) better sound, but if you end up with only 2 tracks to a side, shouldn’t that double LP just have been a singleton after all? 🍋 @vinylrecords

slevelt, to bookstodon
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this is a weird book in many ways, not the least of which is Chatwin’s attention for, ahem, detail when meeting women. 🙄 @bookstodon

Close-up photo of a page from a book with printed text, including the phrase “Two full-bosomed women”.
Close-up of a printed book page with text describing a character's appearance, including the phrase “Her breasts were firm”.

slevelt,
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@izzybeth @bookstodon hahaha those are her arms, mentioned later in the line. weird too, but less weird perhaps 😅

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