Wednesday, December 16, 2020

"The rhythm was very militant to me because it was like marching, the sound of an army on the move. We lost Malcolm, we lost King and they thought they had blotted out everybody. But all of a sudden this new art form arises and the militancy is there in the music".

 Max Roach, talking to George Lipsitz, about hip hop/LL Cool J


Saturday, December 5, 2020

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance" 

Friedrich Nietzsche 

via this Jeremy Gilbert piece that is well worth reading, "A God that Knows How to Dance"

 

“It hurt my ears. Like being hit with a machine gun of ice cubes” - Neil Young on digital sound.