#roni size and reprazent

[medullam]

Roni Size & Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag" [1997]

BBC Radio 1 30th Anniversary

[nando161mando]

Roni Size / Reprazent - New Forms Feat. Bahamadia

[mudwerks]

(via Roni Size, Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag (1997)

[spilladabalia]

Roni Size, Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag

[ostberlinanalogue]

Roni Size and Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag"

[twunny20fission]

My thoughts on Pitchfork's 150 best albums of the 1990s; #130-121

Reminder: three completely subjective criteria. 1: do I like it, yes or no? (Basically, is this for me?) 2: Would I recommend it to anyone, yes or no? (is this for anyone else?) and 3: Is it better than STPs "Core"? (The lowest bar. Few things are better than "Purple," but Core should absolutely be in the top 150, so that's the bar.)

130: Maxwell: Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite (1996). Not my thing. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

129: Tom Petty: Wildflowers (1994). One of the very few immortal albums of the 1990s Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

128: Drexciya: Neptune’s Lair (1999). A revelation. I'd never even caught whiff of this artist. Phenomenal. Listen to "Surface Terrestrial Colonization" as soon as you can. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

127: Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990). She's great, the album is good. It's very hard to judge here. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": maybe?

126: Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). ODB was a real one. He's not as good as Wu-Tang together hitting their stride. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": no

125: Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (1997). I love Modest Mouse as much as the next middle-class, ealy-40s curmudgeon. Deserves to be higher. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

124: Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (1992). Tori Amos was of her time, and a hugely important artist. Do I enjoy listening to her? Not really. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": probably

123: Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand (1994). This is...not music. I guess it didn't say these had to be MUSIC ALBUMS, but this is too far. I don't get it, and I don't get why anyone would get it. *Cary-Grant_out.gif* Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

122: Roni Size / Reprazent: New Forms (1997). It was fine, but it didn't sink in very deep and all the songs sounded the same. Like it: no. Recommend: no. Better than "Core": no

121: Garbage: Garbage (1995). Hell. Yes. In my bubble, Garbage never got the esteem they deserved. They were both of their time and ahead of their time. No matter how many times I listen to this album, I never tire of it. Top-notch 1990s stuff here. Like it: yes. Recommend: yes. Better than "Core": yes

[prgnant]

1997 Drum & Bass

[Part 3 of a five part series where I’ll go chronologically thru every full-length single-artist dnb LP from 95-99 that I can find. Only including records where a majority of tracks are basically within the genre and new material. No remix albums, No VA compilations, No trip hop records with one dnb track, etc.]

With the first commercial peak of the genre, 97 will have the most spots on this list. Majorly influential classics include Roni Size - New Forms, Adam F - Colours, and Photek - Modus Operandi. Arcon 2, Jonny L, Panacea and Fauna Flash demonstrate the turn towards darker, edgier styles that had been taking place on dancefloors. Dnb goes global as Italy, Germany, Brazil, US, and Japan are represented in this list.

personal favorite: Boymerang - Balance of the Force

underrated/lesser known pick: Kid Loops - TimeQuake

one standout track: DJ Soul Slinger - Chega de Saudade

full list with links under the cut

Straight Beat - Fluidoscope

Panacea - Low-Profile Darkness

Voyager - Future Retro

Boymerang- Balance of the Force

Amon Tobin - Bricolage

Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms

Dj Soul Slinger - Don’t Believe

Kid Loops - TimeQuake

Dj Dara - Rinsimus Maximus

Megashira- Zero Hour

J Majik - Slow Motion

Subject 13 - Black Steele Project

Photek - Modus Operandi

Spring Heel Jack - Busy Curious Thirsty

Omni Trio - Skeleton Keys

Cosmorama - Space Odyssey

Arcon 2 - self titled

Multiphonic Ensemble - King of May

Adam F - Colours

Souljah - Urbanology

Jonny L - Sawtooth

James Hardway - Welcome to the Neon Lounge

Fauna Flash - Aquarius

Earl Grey - Purveyors of the New Groove

Fantastic Explosion - self titled

Minus 8 - Beyond

[sunsettsimss]

URL Song Tag

Rules of the game: link a song for each letter of your username

Better late than never, right?! 🥲 thanks luv @budgie2budgie for tagging meeeee 🫶🏽✨

Silent My Song - Lykke Li

Up The Hudson - The Dirty Projectors

New Forms (ft. Bahamadia) - Roni Size, Reprazent

Send It On - D’angelo

En bas (ft. Siboy) - 4Keus

Terminator - Asake

Toy - Young Fathers

Son Shine - Sault

Invaincu - Stromae

My Girls - Animal Collective

Sugar Water - Cibo Matto

Stay Flo - Solange

[medullam]

Onallee of Roni Size & Reprazent [NYC, 1997]

[koholint]

today’s playlist:

OuterWords feat. Yo-Ko - High-Speed Voyage

Magick A - Swingstar Overdrive

Yokota - Few

Cosmorama feat. Angie Brown - A New Beginning

Fantastic Explosion - Ride On

Zion I - Elevation

Ranran Suzuki - Bless My Stars

Roni Size & Reprazent - Electricks

Nobuyoshi Sano - Chika Heiki Souko ~ Geijutsu Noujou: BIODOME 1

Jacob’s Optical Stairway - The Fusion Formula

Voyager - Martian Chronics

Koda - Crisis

Minus 8 - Rita’s Song

Amazon II - Booyaaa!

Herbie Hancock - Black Gravity

Kid Loops - Sixes & Sevens

Rantoul - Default

MANYO & Hikaru Urata - RING of Genocide

Solar Twins - Better Life

Kid606 - Buckle Up

Amen Andrews - Junglebunny

Electrostatic - Temporal Flux

Mendelayev - 3 Emotions

Alex Cortex - Untitled

thanks for listening!

[mediamonarchy]

https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240709_MorningMonarchy.mp3 Download MP3 Lavender logarithms, buying bitstamps and artificial arboretums + this day in history w/debatable crypto activities and our song of the day by Crimethinkers on your #MorningMonarchy for July 9, 2024. Notes/Links: Is an ‘anti-woke’ economy emerging?; Some companies are marketing themselves as woke-free to attract conservative customers. https://www.morningbrew.com/brew-markets/stories/2024/06/01/is-an-anti-woke-economy-emerging Laden With Debt, Gen Z Faces Daunting Housing Market; The obstacles holding younger generations back include historically high home prices, stagnant inflation, debt and spending habits, and wages. https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/laden-with-debt-gen-z-faces-daunting-housing-market-5678453 Many hiring managers are posting fake jobs. One reason may surprise you.; Job seekers are being asked to navigate fake job listings being posted by potential employers. https://archive.is/oEIXQ Just keep bringing up the 6 gorillion and act offended by any reasonable questions https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1656389726589947922 ‘What can we say to make it look like Israel is not committing war crimes?’: Dutch prime minister (Jan. 25, 2024) https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/what-can-we-say-make-it-look-israel-not-committing-war-crimes-dutch The British Lancet just announced that Israel may have killed up to 186k people in Gaza, or more. Here you are offering your support to them. You are a joke, a liar, a charlatan, and now a war criminal. https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1810289881567900067 Haaretz (Further) Confirms IDF’s Use of Hannibal Directive on Oct 7 https://decensored.news/haaretz-idf-hannibal-directive-october-7/ ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree [aka holocaust] in Gaza https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ Image: Israel Lavender AI machine directing Hamas in Gaza war https://medium.com/@ml_artist/israel-lavender-ai-machine-directing-hamas-in-gaza-war-478bb946acb7 Video: ‘Lavender’: How Israel’s AI system is killing Palestinians in Gaza (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgexnnzKt0 Hannibal Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive Roni Size / Reprazent – “Brown Paper Bag” (Inst. Edit // Vinyl // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/19968-Roni-Size-Reprazent-Brown-Paper-Bag // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Forms // ANOTHER MONARCHY EXCLUSIVE! The Liberty Justice Center Files Opening Brief in First Amendment Lawsuit Against Federal TikTok Ban—Legal Challenge Gathers National Support from Across the Political Spectrum https://libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease/the-liberty-justice-center-files-opening-brief-in-first-amendment-lawsuit-against-federal-tiktok-ban/ Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp https://blog.bitstamp.net/post/robinhood-to-acquire-bitstamp/ Video: Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp in $200M Deal (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzyE1FsZY0 Speedworld – “The World’s Toughest Rally” (Inst. // Cassette // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/30981802-Speedworld-Safari // https://speedworld.bandcamp.com/album/safari // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDhwcQ42s Laid-off tech workers advised to sell plasma, personal belongings https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/laid-off-bay-area-tech-workers-struggle-jobs-19545761.php AI pushes Google emissions upward; AI helps spur rise in Google’s emissions https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/ai-google-emissions-report Video: Google blames AI for its carbon emissions | WION Tech It Out (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C70pStv30hg Don Dorsey – J.S. Bach: “Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: III. Presto” (Inst. // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/11782539-Various-Everything-You-Hear-Is-True // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachbusters // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NfMB1yNt_s July 2014 – Page 2 – Media Monarchy https://mediamonarchy.com/2014/7/page/2/ Flashback: Coming soon – B...

[djchorlocontrolection]

Roni Size & Reprazent - Lucky Pressure (Ils Remix) 2001

[thesobsister]

Going through some papers, I found some ticket stubs from shows I attended, mainly in the late ‘90s.

And, damn, 1998 was an annus mirabilis for me by any reckoning. In that year, I saw, starting in March, on the same night, Yo-Yo Ma and Roni Size/Reprazent; Portishead; Prince; Björk; Jimmy Page and Robert Plant; the Tibetan Freedom Concert; Los Van Van and Cubanismo; Massive Attack; Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach; and a double bill of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell in November.

There were some notable shows the years preceding and following (Tricky, Laurie Anderson, Ute Lemper, Santana, U2), but ‘98 was, to date, the apex of my live music life.

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From April 8th to April 11th, 2024

08-04-2024

THE AMPS “Pacer”; THE CORAL “Sea Of Mirrors”; BELLE & SEBASTIAN “Tigermilk”; THE WEDDING PRESENT “Watusi”; JAMES TAYLOR “Sweet Baby James”; FRANK SINATRA “In The Wee Small Hours”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Alien Lanes”; GRATEFUL DEAD “American Beauty”; TEDDY WILSON & HIS ORCHESTRA “Teddy Wilson 1946”; KATHRYN TICKELL “The Gathering”; SUZANNE VEGA “Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles”; BILL RYDER-JONES “If...”; CORNERSHOP “Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast”; PEGGY LEE “I Lke Men!”; JETHRO TULL “Aqualung”; SUEDE “Head Music”; THE EAGLES “The Eagles”; ELLA FITZGERALD “Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook”

09-04-2024

SUZANNE VEGA “Beauty & Crime”; THE DURUTTI COLUMN “Amigos Em Portugal”; THE BREEDERS “Mountain Battles”; GRATEFUL DEAD “Anthem Of The Sun”; ORBITAL “Orbital (1993)”; VAN DYKE PARKS “Discover America”; FATBOY SLIM “Halfway Between The Gutter & The Stars”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Celtschmerz – Live In The UK, '98”; ERIC BOGLE “Something Of Value”; PEGGY LEE “Dream Street”; EDDIE NBOYD “Third Degree”

10-02-2024

BOB DYLAN “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”; THE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS “The Flight Of The Conchords”; LUNASA “The Merry Sisters Of Fate”; KATHRYN TICKELL & ENSEMBLE MYSTICAL “Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical”; MOUNTAIN GOATS “All Hail West Texas”; SARAH VAUGHAN “The Divine Sarah Sings”; THE DURUTTI COLUMN “Another Setting”; PIXIES “Pixies Complete 'B' Sides”; THE FALL “The Frenz Experiment”; CHILDISH GAMBINO “Because The Internet”; GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI “Patio”; RONI SIZE & REPRAZENT “Live Forms”

11-04-2024

NADA SURF “Let Go”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Happy Mondays Live”; SPIRITUALIZED “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”; FOO FIGHTERS “Foo Fighters”; SHARON SHANNON & FRIENDS “Tunes”; THROWING MUSES “University”; LUNASA “Otherworld”; DOC & MERLE WATSON “Pickin' The Blues”; LEMONHEADS “Car Button Cloth”; JAY SEMKO & VARIOUS ARTISTS “Due South Original Television Soundtrack Volume II”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Semi-Detached Mock Tudor”; THE DARKNESS “One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back”