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| !:. | . album : The Music Scene . | .:! |
| ::. | artist : BLOCKHEAD | .:: |
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| !:. | label : Ninja Tune | .:! |
| !:. | cat.nr. : ZENDNL 149 | .:! |
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| !:. | year : 2009 genre : Electronic | .:! |
| ::. | source : WAV quality : VBR @ 179kbit | .:: |
| ::. | size : 85MB total : 12 tracks | .:: |
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. New York hip hop producer Tony Simon aka Blockhead returns .
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. Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based .
. around the hip hop template, but on “The Music Scene” he .
. elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to .
. the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working .
. from “one basic beat and building off it” (the standard .
. hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple .
. beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, .
. surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself .
. puts it, “I made each song a little more of a musical .
. .
. Blockhead’s ambition to “tell stories without words” is .
. evident from opener “It’s Raining Clouds” onwards. The .
. tune starts off as classic downtempo and ends up almost .
. drum and bass, the music having changed and fallen away, .
. echoing back through itself and feeding into previous .
. themes at least three times. It’s an epic in an album of .
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. At the heart of the record is the remarkable “The Daily .
. Routine” – an exploration of drug addiction (based around .
. a found recording of drug addicts arguing), Blockhead says .
. “it’s pretty much the creepiest song I’ve ever made.” .
. “Four Walls,” meanwhile aims a musical broadside at the .
. current vogue for autotune. “Which One Of You Jerks Drank .
. My Arnold Palmer” is huge ambient space rock hip hop. “The .
. Prettiest Seaslug” is Bahia-beat on opium. “Tricky Turtle” .
. begins as afro-blaxpoitation, turns into a voodoo orgy and .
. ends somewherte in the Middle East. “Farewell Spaceman” .
. starts off sounding like an outtake from “Bewitched” and .
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. While “The Music Scene” represents a development in .
. Blockhead’s work, he still holds true to his basic beliefs .
. about music and rhythm. When not working on his new album .
. he has been providing production for Aesop Rock, DJ .
. Signify, Joanna Erdos and many more, plus remixes for .
. Yameen and Chin Chin, amonst others. Whereas the music .
. scene is “a bastardized version of something that was .
. already watered down,” Blockhead’s “The Music Scene,” like .
. his career as a whole, is “the opposite of that.” By .
. re-working, chopping and melding samples, by blending them .
. together, Blockhead restores rather than dilutes their .
. purity. .
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| !:. | 01: It's Raining Clouds 05:55 | .:! |
| !:. | 02: The Music Scene 04:50 | .:! |
| !:. | 03: Only Sequences Change 04:45 | .:! |
| !:. | 04: Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold | .:! |
| !:. | Palmer 04:49 | .:! |
| !:. | 05: Attack The Doctor 05:47 | .:! |
| !:. | 06: The Prettiest Sea Slug 04:36 | .:! |
| !:. | 07: The Daily Routine 06:49 | .:! |
| !:. | 08: Tricky Turtle 04:39 | .:! |
| !:. | 09: Four Walls 05:43 | .:! |
| !:. | 10: Pity Party 04:23 | .:! |
| !:. | 11: Hell Camp 04:38 | .:! |
| !:. | 12: Farewell Spaceman 06:37 | .:! |
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