I tend to agree with your assessment of the two records. When I got "Krush"
a few months back, I couldn't stand the thing, it seemed so conventionally
"acid jazz." Played it again recently and it doesn't seem as bad as I
remember it to be, still not exceptional, but not bad either. Folks I know
didn't seem to like "Turntablized" as much it though, (as they describe it)
"a bunch of tracks where a beat starts up, one or two found-sounds start
looping, then it ends and the next one starts" - a fair enough ostensive
description but, man, blaring out of my stereo or especially in my 6cheapo
car with its even more cheapo speaker6s. I got my speakers at some
electronics surplus place, the effect is incredibly (often annoyingly) great
treble sound, but virutally no bass. With all the percussive beats and
sounds on "Turntablized," it is a quite the wicked collection to listen to
driving around.
Is it just me, or did anyone else find that the rap vocals on "Meiso"
detracted from an otherwise great album. I dunno, that sort of "hard
rhymes" provided by Guru and CL Smooth really ruined it for me. Now, if
Krush had got Rza, The Genius or any of the Wu providing the vocals, hell,
that'd something else. "Duality" is a great track but-maybe my disdain for
the vocals is clouding my judgement-but "Turntablized" is, in my humble
opinion, superior.
NT - Speaking about things Wu, The Dirty Ol' Bastard rules! Has anyone else
had the misfortune of channel-surfing and coming across that new(?) Mariah
Carey video. Crap videao for a crap song but that bit at the beginning "New
Jersey are ya in the house, West Coast are ya in the house, Japan are ya in
the house, etc." and that middle bit where the Dirty One gets that moptop
wig and drools on about the Voice-Which-Makes-Roseanne's Singing-Appealing.
That man is a genius. Cheers.
@@:-Q Yuuta Sasaki
utah@interlog.com