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The first single SLAY is out now!
#Nextcentury#Music#musician#new music#Pop#Queer#Queer electronic#Next century#Electropop#Spotify#New release
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CHRISHABANA 10 YR. ANNIVERSARY AND SS19 PRESENTATION BTS. The folks at @nextcenturyc21 and @cala__ sent over a vid of our #bts set up a few minutes before the doors opened to the public last week. I am so thankful to the #Cala and #nextcentury teams especially @0marcel0 @nasirx4thesoul #isaac - and most noteably the most supportive and generous @ruthgruca who has been so amazing throughout the entire process — thanks so much guys !!! Also pictured here is my hardworking team @yaltch @yungfleur @jingijango #marcello @mimimimisa_ @yuuutsuscene @dailyshowjake @mr.moda As well as the excellent makeup and hair teams from @maccosmetics @bumbleandbumble @reganrabanal @tamas_tmas and of course our gorgeous cast @uglyworldwide @melaniegaydos @raisaflowers @aletacai @brooksginnan @nandird . Biggest thanks still feeling the love #gloryholy #chrishabana #ss19 (at Next Century) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMCip-hDnu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15qu1inl6309o
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Book available on Kindle App and Amazon bookstore. A Haunting Memoir, 366 Extraordinary Letters, An Ordinary Man. #ellyphantshoe #iloveyou #loveletters #memories #nextcentury #writeaboutus #relationshipadvice #mystory #poetry #painandloss #studyus #elephantshoe #setbook #guythoughts #memoir #facebookpage #sinceyouvebeengone #missingyou #newcultclassic #author #unrequitedlove #amazonkindlebooks #moviescript #lifemusings #loveblog #unrequitedlove #howdidthishappen
#loveblog#amazonkindlebooks#guythoughts#howdidthishappen#memories#studyus#sinceyouvebeengone#writeaboutus#mystory#elephantshoe#painandloss#lifemusings#unrequitedlove#iloveyou#setbook#moviescript#loveletters#newcultclassic#missingyou#nextcentury#poetry#ellyphantshoe#memoir#facebookpage#author#relationshipadvice
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It is often perceived as if nations are something of a permanent fixture on earth just like the landscape, never changing and enduring, not in danger of er
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Graham Kartna - Laker Ice - EP
Graham Kartna - The Adventures Of Death Boy
Graham Kartna - Loop Tube
Graham Kartna - Ideation Deluxe
Graham Kartna - Shoot The Moons
Graham Kartna - Illegal Transmissions Over Boyos, ON
Graham Kartna - .temp
Graham Lambkin - Poem (For Voice & Tape)
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run
Graham Lambkin - Softly Softly Copy Copy
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles
Graham Lambkin - Community
Graham Lambkin - No Better No Worse (Vol 1)
Hanz - FireThief
Hanz - AMBAP
Hanz - A Brief Guide
Hanz - Reducer
Hanz - Mix (Kaltblut Magazine)
Hanz - Short Manual (Mix)
Hanz - Plasty I
Hanz - Plasty II
Hanz - I Got it A Gift���..
Hanz - Unofficial Hanz Singles Compilation Album
Haru Nemuri - Haru to Shura
Holly Herndon - Platform
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Iglooghost - Neō Wax Bloom
Impossible Nothing - Phonemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Lexemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Tonemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Taxemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Glossemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Chronemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Phrasemenomicon
Impossible Nothing - Graphemenomicon
Infinity Frequencies - Between two worlds
It’s Over, I Tried... - Emotional Rollecoaster EP
It’s Over, I Tried... - Misandry
It’s Over, I Tried... - A Couple of Days Without Internet Connection
It’s Over, I Tried... - Six Random Dreams In A Single Night
It’s Over, I Tried... - fuck off
It’s Over, I Tried... - GASLiGHT!
It’s Over, I Tried... - Skin Carving
It’s Over, I Tried... - Dark Circles Around Our Eyes
It’s Over, I Tried... - 6:02am
It’s Over, I Tried... - Electra Complex
It’s Over, I Tried... - Eternal
It’s Over, I Tried... - At Last...
It’s Over, I Tried... - DISSOCIATION LOOPS
It’s Over, I Tried... - Juliette
It’s Over, I Tried... - dismissal
J Dilla - Donuts
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
James Blake - The Bells Sketch
James Blake - CMYK
James Blake - Klavierwerke
James Blake - James Blake
James Blake - Enough Thunder
James Blake - Overgrown
James Blake - The Colour in Anything
James Ferraro - Skid Row
James Ferraro - Burning Prius ®
James Ferraro - Fanfare For The Boston Marathon 2017
James Ferraro - Troll
James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai
Joanna Newsom - Walnut Whales
Joanna Newsom - Yarn and Glue
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Joanna Newsom - Divers
JPEGMAFIA - Communist Slow Jams
JPEGMAFIA - Darkskin Manson EP
JPEGMAFIA - Black Ben Carson
JPEGMAFIA - The 2nd Amendement
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
Julian McHutchison - Loopsided
Justin Bieber - My World 2.0
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kanye West - Late Registration
Kanye West - Graduation
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch the Throne
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Kanye West - ye
KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
Kali Uchis - isola†ion
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Kate Bush - Lion Heart
Kate Bush - Never for Ever
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Kate Bush - Aerial
Kate Bush - Director’s Cut
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
Kelela - Take Me Apart
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
Kesha - Animal
Kesha - Cannibal
Kesha - Warrior
Kesha - Rainbow
Kirin J Callinan - Embracism
Kirin J Callinan - Bravado
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Moshi Moshi Harajuku
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Nanda Collection
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Pika Pika Fantajin
Kyle - Smyle
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Lady Gaga - Artpop
Lady Gaga - Cheek to Cheek
Lady Gaga - Joanne
Lemon Demon - Live (Only Not)
Lemon Demon - Dinosaurchestra
Lemon Demon - View-Monster
Lemon Demon - I Am Become Christmas
Lemon Demon - Nature Tapes
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation
Lil Ugly Mane - Three Sided Tape Volume One
Lil Ugly Mane - Three Sided Tape Volume Two
Lil Ugly Mane - Absence of Shitperson
Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape
Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access
Sock - Sock
Mal Webb - Trainer Wheels
Mal Webb - 3 Cheers for Peace and Quiet
Mal Webb - Dodgy
Mal Webb - Not Nor Mal
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Doom - Born Like This
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Mika - The Origin of Love
Mika - No Place in Heaven
Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers
Milosh - You Make Me Feel
Milosh - meme
Milosh - iii
Milosh - Jetlag
Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Moby - More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse
Monolake - Hongkong
Monolake - Interstate
Monolake - Gravity
Monolake - Cinemascope
Monolake - Momentum
Monolake - Polygon_Cities
Monolake - Silence
Monolake - Ghosts
Monolake - VLSI
Mount Eerie - "No Flashlight": Songs of the Fulfilled Night
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Mount Eerie - Dawn
Mount Eerie - Wind’s Poem
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Mount Eerie - Ocean Road
Mount Eerie - Sauna
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
Mr. Oizo - Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
Mr. Oizo - Stade 2
Mr. Oizo - The Shurch
Mr. Oizo - All Wet
Nas - Illmatic
Natalia Lafourcade - Musas Vol. 2
Nmesh - Pharma
Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
Owl City - Maybe I’m Dreaming
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful
Owl City - The Midsummer Station
Owl City - Mobile Orchestra
Owl City - Cinematic
PC Music - PC Music Volume 1
PC Music - PC Music Volume 2
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1977)
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1978)
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980)
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1982)
Peter Gabriel - So
Peter Gabriel - Us
Peter Gabriel - Up
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
Peter Gabriel - New Blood
Poe - Hello
Prurient - Rainbow Mirror
Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
Pusha T - King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pusha T - Daytona
Regina Spektor - 11:11
Regina Spektor - Songs
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Regina Spektor - Far
Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Rina Sawayama - Rina
Ross Byrd - Undeniable Resurrection
Ryoji Ikeda - 1000 fragments
Ryoji Ikeda - +/-
Ryoji Ikeda - 0°C
Ryoji Ikeda - time and space
Ryoji Ikeda - 99: Variations For Modulated 440Hz Sinewaves
Ryoji Ikeda - Mort Aux Vaches
Ryoji Ikeda - matrix
Ryoji Ikeda - .
Ryoji Ikeda - op.
Ryoji Ikeda - dataplex
Ryoji Ikeda - test pattern
Ryoji Ikeda - dataphonics
Ryoji Ikeda - id
Ryoji Ikeda - supercodex
Ryoji Ikeda - Live at White Cube
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async - Remodels
Shawn Kemp - External Files
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Sophie - Product
Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Squarepusher - Burningn’n Tree
Squarepusher - Buzz Caner
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Squarepusher - Big Loada
Squarepusher - Budakhan Mindphone
Squarepusher - Selection Sixteen
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir
Squarepusher - Solo Electric Bass 1
Squarepusher - Shobaleader One: d’Demonstrator
Squarepusher - Ufabulum
Squarepusher - Damogen Furies
Squarepusher - Elektrac
St. Vincent - Marry Me
St. Vincent - Actor
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
St. Vincent & David Byrne - Love This Giant
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
St. Vincent - Masseduction
Sufjan Stevens - A Sun Came
Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Tiësto - In My Memory
Tiësto - Just Be
Tiësto - Elements of Life
Tiësto - Kaleidoscope
Tiësto - A Town Called Paradise
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Tim Hecker - Mirages
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Tupac Shakur - 2Pacalypse Now
Tupac Shakur - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
Tupac Shakur - Me Against the World
Tupac Shakur - All Eyez on Me
Tupac Shakur - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Tupac Shakur - R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
Tupac Shakur - Until the End of Time
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
New Dreams Ltd. - Sleepline
Vektroid - Big Danger
Vektroid - Vektroid Texture Maps
Vektroid - RE•SET
Siddiq & Vektroid - Midnight Run
New Dreams Ltd. - Eden
Palacio Del Rio - No Title
CTO & Ray Sherman - GDGA1
Vektroid - Telnet Complete
Peace Forever Eternal - Nextcentury
Vektroid - Seed & Synthetic Earth
Vectorfray - Bloodsample EP
Vectorfray - For OCRemix's Evaluation
Vectorfray - From The Comfort Of Your Deathbed
Vectorfray - Ides EP
Vectorfray - NolemN Single
Vectorfray - Omegalpha (Disc One)
Vectorfray - Pentbüt
Vktrfry - Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Vktrfry - The Wavefunction Collapse Session
Vektordrum - Shitaihokansho
Vektordrum - Unreleased Tracks
Vektordrum - Capitose Windowpane
Vektordrum - Deciphered
Vektordrum - Fraktalseq: Blossom
Vektordrum - Hello Skypedals EP1
Vektordrum - Hello Skypedals EP2
Vektordrum - I, Banished
Vektordrum - Discrét Night Signals
Vektordrum - Geese
Vektordrum - Trinity
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
Vince Staples - Summertime ‘06
Vince Staples - Prima Donna
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Warmer - Rocket # 009
Warmer - The Tragic Evolution of Desire
Warmer - The Decisions
Matt Koester - I C L A
yeongrak - fn primer cake today II
Zach Hill - Astrological Straits
Zach Hill - Face Tat
骨��的 - Cool Water
骨架的 - Opal Disc
骨架的 - Sunset Melody
(embarrassing list of) Albums on phone:
Christina Grimmie - All Is Vanity
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Graham Kartna - One Year: A Collection Of Old Tunes
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
R23X - OST (1).rar
R23X - OSV: Original Sound Version
DJ Shadow - The Outsider
Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation
90210 - P.O. Box 666
Nyetscape - Party kicks
Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Bibio - Phantom Brickworks
FOODCOURT➒➐~ - PHU➒➐~
Sun Araw - The Phynx
The Skaters - Physicalities Of The Sensibilities Of Ingrediential Strairways
James Ferraro - Pixarni
Moby - Play
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Fever Ray - Plunge
Ariel Pink - pom pom
Gas - Pop
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides
Poppy - Poppy.Computer
Björk - Post
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Famicom Fountains - Progman.Exe
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Internet Club - Pure Trance
James Ferraro - Purple Gongs
Gas - Rausch
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
David Bowie - Reality
Eminem - Recovery
Internet Club - Redefining The Workplace
Eminem - Relapse
Eminem - Revival
Graham Kartna - Rewards
Graham Kartna - Rhetoric On Sublime
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
The Diamondstein - The Ridges
Goldie - Ring of Saturn
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Baths - Romaplasm
SkʞƧ - Round
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
TOYOTAセリカ - S O F T W A R E D R E A M S
Sun Araw - The Saddle Of The Increate
Goldie - Saturnz Return
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Scatman John - Scatman’s World
Girl Talk - Secret Diary
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Internet Club - The Sharper Image
Arca - Sheep
Christina Grimmie - Side A
Christina Grimmie - Side B
Bodyguard - Silica Gel
K2 - Silicon Oasis
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
Doseone - Skeleton Repelent
Flume - Skin
Flume - Skin Companion EP 1
Flume - Skin Companion EP 2
Dollr Menu - Slappers Only!
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Comaduster - Slip Through
Doseone - slowdeath
DJ Rozwell - Sludge Dredd
Snake Figures Fan - Snake Figures Fan
Doseone - Soft Skulls
Earl Sweatshirt - Solace
Comaduster - Solace
James Ferraro - Son of Dracula
BT - A Song Across Wires
Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
James Ferraro - Star Digital Theatre: Movies For P.T. Cruisers
David Bowie - Station to Station
Sea of Dogs - Storm Memories
Charli XCX - Sucker
James Ferraro - Suki Girlz
Poopooface - Super Kawaii~
James Ferraro - Sushi
Aphex Twin - Syro
Denzel Curry - TA13OO
Scatman John - Take Your Time
Gary Numan - Telekon
Amanda Palmer - Theatre Is Evil
BT - These Hopeful Machines
Moby - These Systems Are Failing
BT - This Binary Universe
Sea of Dogs - Through The Fog And The Driftwood
Goldie - Timeless
Poopooface - Tinto5 EP
Andy Stott - Too Many Voices
Clark - Totems Flare
Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Transversal Worldwide Shopping
Nyetscape - Trinity
Charli XCX - True Romance
Carly Rae Jepsen - Tug of War
Clark - Turning Dragon
Sick Animation - The Ultimate Party Collection Vol. 1
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
Internet Club - Underwater Mirage
Twistpillar - The Unity Plaza
Andy Stott - Unknown Exception
Internet Club - Unregistered HyperCam 420
Girl Talk - Unstoppable
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
Burial - Untrue
Björk - Utopia
Internet Club - Vanishing Vision
Datavision Ltd. - Vector Tables
Björk - Vespertine
Bibio - Vignetting the Compost
Tim Hecker - Virgins
James Ferraro - Virtual Erase
Grimes - Visions
Björk - Volta
Bedwetter - volume 1: flick your tongue against your teeth and describe the present.
Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
Björk - Vulnicura
Moby - Wait For Me
Warmer - Warmer
Alias Conrad Coldwood - Wastes
Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Watch Their Loneliness
Com Truise - Wave 1
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
Internet Club - Webinar
Basshunter - Welcome to Rainbow
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
James Ferraro - Wild World
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Christina Grimmie - With Love
Nyetscape - World Edit
Arca - Xen
Elliott Smith - XO
Danny Brown - XXX
Aphex Twin - Xylem Tube
Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
David Bowie - Young Americans
Gas - Zauberberg
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░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ - ▣世界から解放され▣
FOODCOURT➒➐~ - TeleDreamz™
FOODCOURT➒➐~ - ♪♫평양 피아노 학교♪♫
TOYOTAセリカ - のためのショーケース The Eyes
TOYOTAセリカ - サプリメント
TOYOTAセリカ - リバイバル
TOYOTAセリカ - 冬
Pastel Lounge LLC - 夢想假期TOYOTAセリカ - 日曜日DRIVE
Famicom Fountains - 砂漠のカメラレッスン
TRANCE.BIZ - 香港荒村
Albums I’ve had to skip:
Ecco Unlimited - Liquid Nitrogen (My copy is in FLAC, will need to convert it eventually)
James Ferraro - Rerex 1 (Corrupted download)
James Ferraro - Rerex 2 (Corrupted download)
K2 - Chameleon Ballet (Corrupted download)
Eminem - Slim Shady EP (Shows up weird)
Albums I’ve had to skip because DoubleTwist will refuse to acknowledge the existence of certain tracks if they’re short enough and these albums have at least one short song that despite its length I would not like to experience the album without:
Flying Lotus - 1983
Girl Talk - All Day
Bonobo - Animal Magic
Doseone - Be Evil
Internet Club - Beyond The Zone
James Ferraro - Body Fusion 1
James Ferraro - Body Fusion 2
Local News - Channel 8
Aphex Twin - Cheetah
Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2
James Ferraro - Cruisin’ The Nightbiker Strip 1977
Internet Club - Deluxe
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Eminem - The Eminem Show
BT - Emotional Technology
Eminem - Encore
Frank Ocean - Endless
Memorex Dawn - Galleria
James Ferraro - Genie Head Gas In The Tower Of Dreams (Jesters Midnight Toys)
Local News - Ghost Broadcast
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You
Eminem - Infinite
Hearken - Kithless
DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, the Better
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Internet Club - Modern Business Collection
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
Nyetscape - Nyetscape
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The Story of Riesling (Wine Spectator)
For me, thereis Riesling, and then all other wine grapes. I'd never refuse a Pinot Noir orChenin Blanc, but drinking Riesling feels like coming home—it fills my heart.
And so it isthat I offer a toast to Riesling on this very special day, Riesling's honorarybirthday ... its 584th. The Wines of Germany trade group has declared March13, 1435, the "official" birthday of Riesling, marking the date ofthe grape's first documented existence, in a cellar log from Germany's smallHessische Bergstrasse wine region, southeast of Rheingau. The log notes apurchase of six "Riesslingen" vines by Count John IV ofKatzenelnbogen in Rüsselsheim. (The first recorded instance of the"Riesling" spelling came a little later, from German botanist HieronymusBock, in 1552.)
Riesling vines,likely native to Germany's Rhine Valley, were well-tended by Benedictine andCarthusian monks and the noble families in the 15th century. However, it wasn'tuntil some 200 years later that Riesling's popularity took off. At the end ofthe Thirty Years' War, when the French were given control over Alsace in 1648,most of the destroyed vineyards were replanted to Riesling. Recognizing a goodidea, Schloss Johannisberg, in Germany's Rheingau region, replanted all of itsvineyards to Riesling in 1720. Mosel quickly followed and, in 1787, the Electorof Trier at the time, Clemens Wenzeslaus, decreed that all "bad" vines shouldbe ripped out and replaced by Riesling. The frenzy was underway.
The nextcentury marked Riesling's apogee. In the late 1800s, German examples enjoyed a globalreputation and garnered prices on par with those of Bordeaux first-growths andBurgundy grands crus. Britain's QueenVictoria was a noted devotee. In 1900, Egon Müller, the famed estate from the Mosel'sSaar district, won a Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition International. Rieslingwas Germany's pride and joy, and its most widely grown grape.
But Riesling's birthplacealso happens to be the site of its decline. World Wars I and II resulted in themass destruction of Germany's vineyards; afterward, the country's wine industryfocused largely on quantity over quality. That drift favored earlier-ripening, lessfinicky varieties such as Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau. Riesling vines thatremained were trained to produce higher yields, resulting in inferior wines.
Products likeLiebfraumilch and similar mass-produced German wines, easily recognized bytheir signature blue bottles, drove down sales of estate-grown and single-vineyardRieslings. Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, top-quality Riesling was aninsider's secret.
But you can'tkeep a noble grape down. In 1996, Riesling regained its title as Germany's mostwidely planted variety. It's grown on every continent besides Antarctica,yielding world-class wines from Alsace in France as well as Austria, Australiaand Washington and New York in the U.S.
Courtesy of Deutsches Weininstitut
The banks of Germany’s Mosel river are home to arguably the world’s finest Riesling vineyards.
But what makesRiesling so special? It's remarkably versatile. It can be lightweight and super-delicate,yet still burst with aromas and flavors. It's a late-ripening variety yetachieves flavor complexity at lower sugar levels than other grapes. Riesling'stransparency allows it, in my opinion, to transmit terroir in a way that no other grape can. When harvested at lowyields, without winemaking interventions, Riesling excels at showcasing adistinctive sense of place. Finally, Riesling is supremely ageable thanks toits naturally high acidity, which conserves its freshness for years. Buttressedby residual sugar, dessert-style Rieslings age effortlessly for decades.
The wine ismade in myriad styles, both still and sparkling, from dry to off-dry tolusciously sweet. Winemakers in Slovenia, Austria and northeast Italy aremaking orange wine–style skin-contact Rieslings. Traditionally, Riesling hasbeen fermented in large, neutral oak barrels to round the wine's acidity andadd depth and complexity, but stainless-steel versions, with racy freshness andpurity, have gained in popularity.
Chefs andparticularly sommeliers have embraced Riesling. Perhaps it's the delicatenature of modern cuisine that spurred this trend, a rejection of the big, oakywines that can overpower a meal. Riesling's purity, fresh fruit, mouthwateringacidity and lack of new oak flavors make it an inspired choice with food.
Riesling is thewine world's best-kept secret. Selfishly, I'm glad. Few great grapes are soaffordable, with so many outstanding examples priced at less than $50. But I'mnot going to keep it to myself, at least not today. Happy birthday, Riesling!
Follow Aleks Zecevic on Instagram at @azecevic88.
source https://www.winespectator.com/blogs/show/id/Happy-Birthday-Riesling
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Feature: 2017: Second Quarter Favorites
Half of the year is over, and we have done absolutely nothing with our lives. Very pathetic. The good news is that we use our ears to listen to music, so to celebrate, the TMT staff has once again come together to share our favorite releases of the last three months (give or take), compiled in the best format known to humankind. This time around, we were outside the club (Jlin), in the Devil’s book (Sarah Shook & The Disarmers), and on Google Hangouts (Kendrick Lamar), broadcasting live using algorithm-free YouTube (Future City Love Stories). There was glittery slime (cupcakKe), naturalistic abstractions (Lieven Martens), and condensed chunks of cut-open human organs (Pharmakon), with a range that went from pop (Lorde), narkpop (GAS), and contorted pop (Laurel Halo) to rock-star rappers (Playboi Carti), airbrushed nightcrawlers (99jakes), and mutilated tunes on the DAW floor (Khaki Blazer). Check the full list below, and as always, please take note of the shortlist, as these particular releases either weren’t heard enough yet to make the list or just fell short for various reasons. All worth a listen. Shortlist: The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the end of time: Stage 2, Upgrayedd Smurphy’s HYPNOSYS, Actress’s AZD, Slowdive’s Slowdive, $3.33’s DRAFT, Perfume Genius’s No Shape, Peace Forever Eternal’s Nextcentury, Cloud Rat & Moloch’s split, Babyfather’s Cypher, Russian Tsarlag’s Gel Stations Past, Ducktails’s Daffy Duck In Hollywood, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s On The Echoing Green, Elysia Crampton’s Spots y Escupitajo, RITCHRD’s GREATEST HITS, and Tara Jane O’Neil’s self-titled album. --- Laurel Halo Dust [Hyperdub] Dust’s single “Jelly” was a surprising teaser for fans of Laurel Halo, soberly announcing her return to vocal music with a big result. As the song resembles and contorts pop product, it’s vocoder — emblematic of 2012’s viscous and spacey Quarantine — serves the punctuated delivery of a funky Parliament-esque hook (“You don’t meet my standards for a friend…”), while collaborators Klein and Lafawndah deliver the remainder. The far-reaching influences found on “Jelly” came to be representative of Dust at large, an album that moves through its vibrant landscape of sounds and grooves in a way new to the artist behind it. “Moontalk” delivers a second blast of lopsided feel-good pop, Sam Hilmer’s saxophone rips on “Arschkriecher,” Michael Salu takes the stage on “Who Won?,” and the album ultimately subsides, taking space to explore old territory with the help of composer Eli Keszler. Dust is an exciting and adventurous release that couldn’t be more matter-of-fact. –Ben Levinson --- Playboi Carti Playboi Carti [Interscope] “I’m a rockstar” asserts Lil Uzi Vert in the intro to “wokeuplikethis,” the collaborative lead single off of Playboi Carti’s self-titled debut. Given the Atlanta native’s penchant for distorted, guitar-like synths and driving rhythms that often exceed 160 BPM, it wouldn’t be a stretch for us to extend the title to Carti, too. While “wokeuplikethis” is undeniably a track indebted to early rock & roll’s chugging groove — although one could even deem it pop-punk, taking its sparkly lead melodies and raspy, slacker vocals into consideration — Playboi Carti is evidence that its creator is something even greater. He’s sedimentary rock, a walking pastiche, the zeitgeist. He culls the best of 2016’s SoundCloud wave — its gravelly basslines, its chiming riffs — and blends it with well-curated bits of other subcultural ephemera. The transcendent beatswitch midway through “Location” integrates Macintosh Plus’s sloppily chopped aesthetic. “New Choppa,” featuring A$AP Rocky, delves into its own dark interpretation of chiptune. “Lame Niggaz” feels like a barebones deconstruction of PC Music’s unbridled optimism. Cash Carti’s everything that’s cool. He’s everything that’s ever been cool. –Jude Noel --- GAS Narkopop [Kompakt] Whatever happened to program music? We tend to think of the entire instrumental-pop umbrella, typically cast over both ambient and techno, as purely abstract. Wolfgang Voigt’s marriage of the two styles as GAS has especially been painted as a project concerning itself with the musical absolute. And yet, when you put your ear to the impenetrably thick walls built around Narkopop’s heartbeat-like low-end and contemplate the album’s wandering melodies and swift, unpredictably-resolving chord progressions, it’s hard to shake the feeling that there’s a story there. Not just the depiction of emotions or a mood, not just the aural rendering of “a nightclub in a forest,” but a plot, a character, and a conversation (or their multitude). Is it the movement of people through the European continent in its war-ridden past (or equally foreboding present)? Or is it more of a personal strife, the tale of a human struggling and succeeding, to various degrees, at finding solace? He would likely respond that there is none, but my question stands: What’s the story, Wolfgang? –Patryk Mrozek Narkopop by GASNarkopop by GAS --- Khaki Blazer Didn’t Have to Cut [Hausu Mountain] Pat Modugno when donning his Khaki Blazer is most known for his juddering, hypercaffeinated cut-ups and off-the-grid percussive discursions (scope the contemporaneous Speed Rack Willy), but on Didn’t Have to Cut, he seems to be taking our boy Gotye’s words to heart. Not only do we choose when and where to cut, but we could also decide not to do it at all. Modugno, thinking of all those tunes left mutilated on the DAW floor, must’ve had a change of heart, a turn away from the neo-dadaist massacres he seemed to so gleefully perpetuate. He still collages with the best of ‘em, but Didn’t Have to Cut gives each sound a little more room, a little more time to express itself. From the complete wheezer of “Comfortably Grey” to the slow-tone torture of “Saturn Rings” to the sheer psychic insinuation of “Hold Your Breath and Count,” everyone swarms and squiggles and sighs and squawks a little more thoughtfully. Still, the crowning achievement is the strung-out electric allolalia of “Death Bedhead,” featuring some famous singer I used to know. Didn’t Have to Cut is perhaps the most truly strange thing of 2017 so far, a melted, lopsided chimera roaring, bleating, and hissing its way into our hearts. –Cynocephalus Didn't Have To Cut by Khaki BlazerDidn't Have To Cut by Khaki Blazer --- Félicia Atkinson Hand In Hand [Shelter Press] Hand in hand, I’m watching the places where fingers tip into edges where I end. The fingernail barriers blood vessel and lymph and nerve from the wilderness. The fingernail keeps the self-stuff safe. Keratogenous upkeep is self-atomizing with clipper and file, a breaking for building to remind us that split bone is trauma but broken nail is health. All sounds are found in the breaking. All found breaks are Hand in Hand, the discarded sounds we shed to be. Voice is a buzz a bass a kiss a house a dance a poem. It sounds in slivers, these uncovered discards, this mode of droned bone jutting into distal digits. Dis-uncovery is wiping it away while rubbing it in. It’s in us. Félicia splints (our) nervous material like steel kissing keratin. Slip pinches hangnails. Bones break flesh, in-grown you. Infections are plausible. Fungi whine in crevices. In clips. Is imperfect. She skitters. We whisper. Listen. I’m following you. Take care. –Frank Falisi Hand In Hand by Félicia AtkinsonHand In Hand by Félicia Atkinson [pagebreak] Ryuichi Sakamoto async [Milan] When Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer, no one knew how long he had to live. After around 40 years with Yellow Magic Orchestra — as well as many years as a solo composer — Sakamoto didn’t know if it’d be possible to ever make music again. “My faith in ‘health’ was crushed… I could have lost my voice, so I feel very lucky that I didn’t,” he shared with The New York Times. But with time, the 65-year-old composer slowly returned to the piano to give us async, 14 tracks of sobering reflection that meditate on the underlying grief at the heart of his health. Pooling influence from Andrei Tarkovsky and the piano meditations of Claude Debussy, async is about as uncomfortably intimate as instrumental music can be. Tracks like “walker” and “disintegration” feel of a certain post-Cagean tradition yet bask in a crushing fragility that borrows more from the emotive terrain of film composition than it does from art world experimentalism. “Ff,” “stakra,” and “ZURE” offer warm synths with a harrowing sparseness, while “fullmoon” includes a quote from Paul Bowles, one that’s light, yet aching in their harrowing detail. For all of its baggage in personal narrative, async continues much of what makes Sakamoto’s film work breathtaking with a handful of rich pieces at the height of the emotional spectrum. –Rob Arcand --- Jlin Black Origami [Planet Mu] The outward expansion of footwork has yielded many meta-narratives, all inextricably bound by a sense of propulsive energy — be it a frantic release schedule, marked by a saturation of physical releases and SoundCloud drops, or the will to stretch and mutate the methodological lexicon for the circle beyond. Never created, never destroyed; Jlin taps into the latter impulse once again with Black Origami, a renegotiation of the truncated vision of footwork posited by Dark Energy. Between percussive modes via India and Africa, and the divergent compositional methods of Basinski, Herndon, and Fawkes, these dark energies are (as the title suggests) continuously folded and refolded, enveloped and developed, resulting in one of the densest and most challenging sets of footwork yet. Wordless coos (“Enigma,” “Calcination”) pierce the void; meanwhile, “1%” quite literally dials up the madness, interjecting samples amongst characteristically throttling drum hits and transmuting bass. Make no mistake, Jlin is operating way outside the club here. Questions of identity and psychogeography aside, the pull of Black Origami lies in the physicality of its Delphic complexity — a kind of corporeal braindance — so consider it a sizable gauntlet to body music hereafter. Oh, and good luck dancing to the next one. –Soe Jherwood Black Origami by JlinBlack Origami by Jlin --- Future City Love Stories Future City Love Stories [BLCR Laboratories] The BLCR Laboratories debut of Future City Love Stories (a.k.a. Dream Catalogue CEO, a.k.a. HKE, a.k.a. [every last a.k.a. imaginable]) finds spectacular foundations for the self-titled release’s existence on the audible milieu of atmosphere. There is no “real” rhythm or reason unfolding within the chapters of Future City Love Stories, just architectural patterns. Existence as lingering footsteps in the background. Haunting echoes vibrating throughout empty alleys and alcoves. The sound of rain down the road turns out to be televisions left on static in a storefront window. Explanations withdrawn with, “Neverminds.” A voice intentionally lost in translation. Blurring lights that even up close hum a glow of aura. Dumpster fires. Pockets of wafting smells entangle the senses. Enough narrative imagination in ethereal splendor for listeners to create their very own Future City Love Stories. Come out and play forever. –C Monster Future City Love Stories by Future City Love StoriesFuture City Love Stories by Future City Love Stories --- Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Sidelong [Bloodshot] “What kind of music do you usually have here?” Country AND western, honky AND tonk, punk AND queer… wait, what? Sarah Shook plays smoky raw alt-country that contrasts a subtle defiance of gender stereotypes with a proud and triumphant embodiment of another trope, the country legend on a path to hell paved with bad intentions and slippery with moonshine. Country may be the music of pain, but if you need something to rile you up, the driving outlaw rhythms here’ll get the job done too. Shook’s voice is an extraordinary instrument — rough-edged and velvety by turn, with a rattling quiver and a broken lilt that’ll break your heart right along with it. Sidelong inscribes her name, alongside Lydia Loveless and Hank Williams III, in the Devil’s book. –Rowan Savage Sidelong by Sarah Shook & the DisarmersSidelong by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers --- Arca Arca [XL] Electronic music has an odd relationship with vocals. They’re polarized along the spectrum of directness, either fully obscured or so loaded with emotional cues as to seem heavy-handed. The notion of the electronic singer-songwriter is nearly extinct, word to James Blake. Arca found a way to bridge that gap, speaking both through his production and his own voice, and transmitting gripping affect on two levels: the pure sound of his voice, a universal language, and the massive (but nuanced) emotional conveyance of the lyrics themselves, sung in his native Spanish. Whether you speak the language or not, Arca seizes control, making himself clearer to the listener than ever before. –Corrigan B --- Lieven Martens Gardens, Fire and Wine (A Compilation) [Edições CN] Quietly, he picks out postcards under a bright moon. The street murmurs, the water laps. Slowly, softly, a certain psychedelia seeps in, of the visitor, in transit, appearing, displacement. And the words come, briefly. In summary. To try to speak to transitory and totalizing experiences. Swaths of moments, and to honor them, particularly. Moods, tones, warped glimpses. A gesture. Plus all that’s ungraspable, well-traveled. I picked this one out just for you. Wish you were here. Signed Lieven Martens, who equates the seven soundscapes on Gardens, Fire and Wine (A Compilation) with a set of seven postcards. They go around the world; it’s a miracle. Delivery, like a whisper. Words laid bare for you, again, actually, as many of these tracks were previously released on 7-inches and cassettes between 2012-15. Compiled, they span from documents of live performances to naturalistic abstractions. But, again, in the wonderful words of Martens, they’re not quite that. More, “a series of images, not reissues yet self-captured.” Words touched heart. Simply. What did he write? He wrote of all sorts of good soil. Thank the glaciers, the volcanoes. –Cookcook Gardens, Fire and Wine (A Compilation) by Lieven MartensGardens, Fire and Wine (A Compilation) by Lieven Martens [pagebreak] cupcakKe Queen Elizabitch [Self-Released] Saying that this [title with a strong female lead] is anything like MC Lyte or Lil Kim would be as lazy and as sexist as it is glaringly false. Elizabeth Harris (nope, not this one) is a motherfucking kraken on Queen Elizabitch, spitting glittery slime from her furry pink tentacles until you submit. Straight up, Queen Elizabitch is filthy as fuck, hilarious as Hell, and hard as a dick while she’s rapping. Put squarely, this shit is BOLD, and it’s not lost on us that being a female MC in this context requires an impossible balance between class and crass. I can’t deny that cupcakKe’s notorious guttermouth is what pulled me in, but in all honesty, what has kept me coming back is her unmatched consistency in a game dominated by warbling cocks. This shit slays on a Blueprint level. That it would probably still slay on a Kingdom Come level is a reflection of her unsolicited ferocity. However we heard it, I’m glad we listened. –Jackson Scott --- Chino Amobi PARADISO [UNO NYC/NON] Tiny Mix Tapes has been covering Chino Amobi since at least 2012, when he was known as Diamond Black Hearted Boy. As it turns out, 2012 also was the year yours truly started writing for TMT — and my last name really is Diamond, by the way; it’s not a moniker like C Monster. Fun fact: C got me this gig. He was listening to Chino back when Chino was Diamond Black Hearted Boy. I faintly remember him telling me about Diamond Black Hearted Boy, and my reply being something like,”’Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon?’ Dope song, bro.” He definitely told me about Chino Amobi later too, but I just thought he was talking about the guy from The Deftones. The point is, not all of us TMTers are in-the-know experimental music scholars with master’s degrees, and some of us who are are secretly borderline illiterate, but most all of us thoroughly enjoy Chino Amobi’s PARADISO and its arcane references, sudden outbursts, and the way those elements play off of one another, like close friends with similar interests and backgrounds but little else in common. Cages this weekend? –Samuel Diamond PARADISO by Chino AmobiPARADISO by Chino Amobi --- Richard Dawson Peasant [Weird World] The curtain rises; before us, a paddock of aged grass, overcast with swelling clouds, while somewhere nearby, there lays a whimpering collie “under a whining bush… seized by a fit.” A house sits in the corner of the enclosure, steam escaping through the windows — inside, there keeps “a cauldron of pummeled gall-nuts afloat in urine/ add river-water thrice-boiled with a bloodstone.” On the wall, a painting has begun to drip from the humidity, its seaside pastoral molting into something almost unrecognizable, as if suddenly one can see “in the face of the cliff/ a ghastly doorway.” Beyond the doorway lies a kingdom of gold, a place where “a child can be bought for a year’s worth of grain,” and “fortune wags its tongue along the walkways of the bathhouse.” Innocents lay lifeless on the street corner, and as the music of war begins to stir once again, somewhere far away, “the rolling fields grow dark as the grave/ and I am fleeing for my life.” –SZG --- Pharmakon Contact [Sacred Bones] Shortly before the release of Contact, Pharmakon played a memorial show for those who lost their lives in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire. The show was also a fundraiser for the Trans Assistance Project in honor of Feral Pines, a transwoman who was among those who died. I didn’t know Feral personally, but many of the people I went to the show with did. Pharmakon played a short set, a single song off Contact. A great chunk of the audience cried. Contact is an industrial-noise record, a condensed chunk of materialized, cut-open human organs, a manifestation of pain and fury and sadness. Terribly abrasive, yes, but it reminds us that such horror-totems are also a locus for contact. There’s a great deal of space in this record, gaps between aural saturation, pockets to curl up and gather and weep in between sheets of oblivion. We can gather around a shared wound. We can hold hands. Contact is an assault and an opening-up. –Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli Contact by PharmakonContact by Pharmakon --- 99jakes Birthday Party (Not Our Birthday) [Self-Released] “You would cry too if it happened to you.” INT. MOTEL ROOM — NIGHT. SALEM and GFOTY moved into a vacancy together at the edge of town, a few miles past the last gas station but before you get to the cornfields. It always looks red in their room, because they keep a neon sign glowing all through the clear-blue night. We’re throwing a birthday party for their overdue baby, and we just had to book 99jakes, the holy sacrilegious DJ broadcasting live from the forest using algorithm-free YouTube. The party is for jakes only, sorry, but you’re a jake. You might’ve RSVPd “Going” on Facebook high as fuck at 2:35 AM, but you were not ready for this party. Airbrushed nightcrawlers are scurrying on the walls, moms and ravers are talking Yu-Gi-Oh!, and one of the jakes keeps trying to start a food fight with this cardboard cutout of Magneto. Another jake is genuinely sobbing about their weekly horoscope. It’s a new moon and the party is over, but after the afterparty, we’re playing 7th Guest. For keeps. Watch it, dude. –Pat Beane --- Aaron Dilloway The Gag File [Dais] Cigarette butts litter the floor. Empty beer bottles are strewn across the room. The walls in the house are that dark-brown, stained-wood paneling of which the 70s were so fond. The carpet might as well be orange if it actually isn’t. Remnants of paraphernalia are on a glass-top table in front of a couch. There’s a stale smell in the air. A low thud lopes along in the background. You can vaguely make out that music is playing, but you don’t know what it is… there’s mostly muddy bass frequencies. Random conversations are taking place in this room, but you’re not really a part of any of them. You’re just observing. Down a hallway and through a bedroom door is a familiar smile. A kind of vaguely eerie, expressionless smile that you pull a string to animate. While pulling the string, a busted speaker inside of it creaks to life, announcing “kill away” with a cackle. You ghost this scene immediately. –Joe Davenport The Gag File by Aaron DillowayThe Gag File by Aaron Dilloway [pagebreak] Chief Keef Thot Breaker [Glo Gang] When I reviewed Two Zero One Seven in January, I felt obligated to excavate a rough sketch of Chief Keef’s disperse, ephemeral, and notoriously leaky catalogue, ending with the question of whether Thot Breaker (which had already been suspended in the limbo of hypothetical Keef releases since 2015) would ever come out. So in a surprise befitting Sosa’s winking demeanor, it makes a kind of cosmic sense that Thot Breaker would not only be released, but also that it would be an actual album, delicately mastered and thoughtfully sequenced, showcasing the evolution of Keith Cozart’s blossoming vision as a full-throated producer of singular and ambitious pop music. And the music is what shines: falsetto, autotune harmonies hang in the nausea of drum-barren and baroque lean-scapes, where the absurd poignancy of Keef’s lyricism glimmers, finally equilibrated to the left-field intuitions of his own production style (aided here by resident team Young Chop and CBMix, as well as a lone Mike WiLL Made-It spot). Standouts like “Alone (Intro),” the drumless ballad “Slow Dance,” stadium-dubstep barnstormer “Whoa,” and the inevitable lean-sipping ode “Drank Head” are legitimate ruptures in the Keef canon and, if we are to take the artist at face value (which we should), aesthetics more generally — they only require the audience to unsee a false history, and to accept the psychedelic, finessed vulnerability being offered on Thot Breaker. –Nick Henderson --- Nkisi Kill [MW] The only voice you hear on Kill bellows at the beginning of “Can You See Me,” asking with force, “Can you hear me? Do you know who I am? Can you see me? I live in the dark.” Brief and deliberate, the first official record by Nkisi, a co-founder of the explosively influential NON collective, somehow gets right up in its listener’s face while retaining its basic anonymity. The title track opens the record in a rolling, percussive euphoria, giving way to a kind of double-bridge in which manic beeping morphs into a dramatic trance arp. There are more shades of trance in the emotional denouement of “Parched Lips,” while both “Can You See Me” and “MWANA” rely on their nervous, nonlinear ascent toward climax. These are unique, collage-like tracks that still fit well within the massive, oddly shaped space Nkisi and associates have carved for themselves, blending a familiarly frenetic swing of snares into conversation with some evocative and incidental techniques of composition. Living in the dark, Kill offers a few scattered rays of light. –Will Neibergall --- Lorde Melodrama [Republic] Lorde is one of those ultimate artists who has achieved both top-level mainstream cred and top-level indie cred. You really can’t dislike her from any angle or you risk being seen as uncool, a fate truly worse than death. This is because, in contrast to most other pop today (most of which is pure garbage), her music is emotionally intuitive and refreshingly honest, with interesting insights into her social life and her love life. The production is airy, crisp, and occasionally sparse, giving the feeling that each sound and gesture was thoroughly considered and chosen for good reasons. These are true reflections of a partier, singing about the feelings that drive her to party and the feelings she’s left with when the party ends. That’s where Lorde transcends most pop music today: where most music regresses into trite politics or benign observations about life, her music is fairly particular and contains powerful ruminations that all people can relate to, because partying rules. Life is about the balance of partying and being sad. --- Ace Mo Black Populous [Bootleg Tapes] In any true Catholic family, there are over four aunts or uncles and subsequently dozens of first and second cousins who get placed in three categories: often, sometimes, and who? The “oftens” are there every holiday whose birthdays you’re dragged to; the “sometimes” are out-of-state cousins who you see enough to consistently dislike and/or smoke weed with in the alleyway; and the “whos?” are the reason why you address everyone as “bud” or “friend.” Ace Mo and the entirety of Bootleg Tapes have quickly risen from a “who?” to the highest ground of “often”: the sitcom best-friend cousin, transcending the ranks into a must-see, need-to-chill-with cousin. Can there be a brightest-star, favorite cousin within Bootleg Tapes? We refuse to answer that. But damn: as of this writing, he is the face off/banner kid of their Bandcamp, and Black Populous is bringing in a whole new appreciation for the label. So, what we’re saying is, Ace Mo, I have the dro, and we’re eating heavy always; see you at the next major holiday, and an AFX-style-remix-fanboy thanks to you. –Monet Maker Black Populous by AceMoBlack Populous by AceMo --- Medslaus Poorboy Self-Released If the most boring drums a rap producer can program go boom boom bap boom boom boom bap, then the second most boring drums a rap producer can program go ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka and the third most boring go ticka ticka boom bap ticka ticka ticka ticka bap, and so on. If I’m oversimplifying, I apologize — the point is: Slauson Malone doesn’t make beats you’ve heard before, and on the occasion that he employs a familiar sample, like on “Follies (P.M.W.),” the sumbitch gets turned out. Melodics become riddims and vice versa such that no two tracks ever sound the same. As for Slauson’s vocal counterpart, the first time I heard Medhane, I thought he was alright but steadily overshadowed by his producer. Post-Poorboy, I’m starting to think that’d be like saying Guru was overshadowed by Premier. And this is after just their second project together!? If these kids get any better, you’re all going to be out of a job. Chief Keef’s going to need to take a civil service exam or some shit. Rappaz rn dainja and beats are obsolete. Go ahead with that. –Samuel Diamond --- Kendrick Lamar DAMN. [Top Dawg] Okay, so you’re not AIM buddies with Kendrick Lamar, but… doesn’t it feel like you kinda could be? The most over-the-top thing about DAMN. wasn’t that it sounded like the work of some untouchable megastar off on his own trip; it was the feeling that an easygoing, all-around “nice dude” who lives down the hall from you cobbled this shit together on his PC in the lonely-but-spacious hours between night shifts and day jobs. The shots fired on DAMN. didn’t feel so much “shockingly revolutionary” as they did “shockingly relatable.” It pretty much felt like Lamar was sending you a MediaFire link containing the mundane, silly, scared, honest fruits of a secret-hobby on Google Hangouts and then insecurely asking you what you thought of it right on the spot. Then, he anxiously watched the screen as you typed back your near-speechless, one-word response: “DAMN.” –Dan Smart http://j.mp/2tn2dfT
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