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It’s Like a Labor of Love

September 2, 2008 – 10:13 am
Hopefully everybody in the reading audience enjoyed their day off yesterday. Assuming of course you had the day off. For some reason the term “labor” as used in “Labor Day” always makes me think of delivering babies more-so than the manual labor it actually refers to. I’ve never witnessed the delivery of […]
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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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“I’m a Giant In the Mental When You Play the Instrumental…” © Andre the Giant

May 7, 2008 – 10:53 am
Some mornings I find myself reaching for an instrumental record because they’re easy. Easy on the ears. Easy on the attention span. Easy to sum up. Either the beats are dope… Relaxing… Exciting… Or they aren’t. Either they make your head nod or they don’t. There are no lyrics to analyze or voices to critique. […]
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Jim Consults the Throwback Blueprint

April 30, 2008 – 10:35 am
After yesterday’s detour into socio-political reflection we’re going back to the music in today’s post. And the music we’re going back to is the kind that does a bit of reflecting of it’s own, back on the music of bygone eras. The first reflectee is Blueprint, the Columbus, Ohio-based producer and emcee probably best known as […]
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