Charlie Olvera: A Blog
April 2013
3 posts
Rats Only: Soultrap (feat. Chicago): An Interview with Tree →
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by Winston Cook-Wilson
In a post-Weezy era where .zip files of MP3 mixtapes frequently become as popular as major-label albums, it’s possible for rappers to achieve in a year what might have taken them three or four a decade ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Chicago rapper/producer Tremaine…
WHOA. My man Winston drops a killer interview with Chicago-based MC Tree. Highly recommended.
March 2013
5 posts
BREEZEM' OUT (Chopped and Screwed Remix)
Lil Ugly Mane/CO
Lil Ugly Mane- Breezem’ Out (CO’s Chopped and Screwed Remix)
I screwed this track up for my friend, but you are all my friends, so you can also enjoy some slowed-down music.
February 2013
13 posts
You know what is really comforting - putting low volume rain sounds on in the background of all your other music.
Just me?
Or just dive into ambient and drone and make those sounds the POINT of the music you listen to! Brian Eno awaits, with open arms. Let him in to your life.
January 2013
8 posts
Play
December 2012
6 posts
“So if this was ‘experimental music’, what was the experiment? Perhaps it was the continual re-asking of the question ‘what also could music be?’, the attempt to discover what makes us able to experience something as music. And from it, we concluded that music didn’t have to have rhythms, melodies, harmonies, structures, even notes, that it didn’t have to involve instruments, musicians and special venues. It was accepted that music was not something intrinsic to certain arrangements of things - to certain ways of organizing sounds - but was actually a process of apprehending that we, as listeners, could choose to conduct. It moves the site of music from ‘out there’ to ‘in here’. If there is a lasting message from experimental music, it’s this: music is something your mind does.”
—Brian Eno, foreword to ‘Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond’ by Michael Nyman (via adagioforweeks)
“Jobs vs. climate action is a straw man—a false and outdated dichotomy propagated by those with a vested interest in the status quo.”
—writes Mother Jones’ editors in chief. (via motherjones)
November 2012
6 posts
October 2012
11 posts
Masked Ball (1999 Extended Mix)
Jocelyn Pook
It’s Friday. Have a party, Stanley Kubrick-style.
