May 17, 2004
WHO SAID "GRIMY" FIRST? ONYX? I ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW
If you have the music without the rhyming, it's OK. And if you have the rhyming but with American music, it's OK. And if you get someone who's OK at both, it's OK. Just as it would have been in 1981 and 1988 and 1993, the best representation of this localized music would be a blazing compilation, a mix of debris from the initial explosion and packets of dust from the regional fallout. The proper cross-section would pivot on a brief footprint—a month, a week, even—and swing out laterally through neighborhoods, catching impressions of the short lives and springy muscles and wild guesses and hail marys that construct an informal brief on behalf of someone's new world.
Posted by Sasha at May 17, 2004 10:40 AM | TrackBack