Tag Archives: Blockhead

Beats for Your Face (Or Lack Thereof)

December 10, 2008 – 10:30 am
So much for chilly temperatures and pretty powdery coatings…All of a sudden it’s a balmy 60 degrees outside with intermittent rain and it’s windy as a sonovabitch! So, what sort of soundtrack does a grey-skied, puddle-packed, wind-blown Wednesday deserve? I’m thinking something moody and changeable, that suits the days’ melancholy caste but still […]
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Only Built 4 Polk County?

August 4, 2008 – 10:30 am
A lot was said in Friday’s Records at Random post dedicated to the 13th (despite its rep thirteen is one of my lucky numbers) anniversary of Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx about the qualities I admire a Hip-Hop album. Dirty sample-based beats imbued with the crackle-and-pop of vinyl, emcees who are creative, intelligent, […]
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French kids like donut-holes, but Charlie Brown likes crayons

August 7, 2007 – 11:42 am
The other day I was thinking “gee, it’s been a while since I featured instrumental Hip-Hop on Blogarhythms.” So I looked around my workspace and found about a half-a-dozen albums I’d previously set aside as candidates for such future featuring. Some theorize “the future” is in fact “now,” so I figured there’s no better time […]
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