Nov 26, 2022 | Essays, Img, Sound & Vision, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never...
Nov 11, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Listen to Music For Howie B-B-Babies byGeecologist on hearthis.at Part 2 of the Howie B hagiography… Part 1 is here. I don’t know what it is about albums from folks who are primarily producers, but goddamn they’re good. And that’s not a genre...
Nov 4, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Since bagging a copy of Music For Babies back in the 1990s, I’ve been a big fan of Howie B’s exploits. Hot on the heels of that abstract wonder, came Turn The Dark Off, a simpler instrumental hip hop record, but still with tons going on and some...
Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, Playlists, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Only in recent years did I realise how close the relationship between the genres of trip hop, instrumental hip hop, etc, is to the jazz world that (kind of) spawned it. And more and more artists are gleefully straddling that divide, like Makaya McCraven, Sam Gendel,...
Sep 13, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Listen to Best of Funki Porcini – Part 2 byGeecologist on hearthis.at I’ve already waxed lyrical about Funki Porcini when talking about the first ‘best of’ over here. So I will keep this short. Basically trying to capture the essence of an...
Sep 8, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Listen to Best of Funki Porcini byGeecologist on hearthis.at Funki Porcini has been pumping out great records solidly for a good few decades now. I first heard of him via It’s a Long Road which featured on countless compilations, and was released in 1995 on his...