Thursday, April 29, 2004
Saturday, April 24, 2004
CD Title: Throbs From The Chest By Sleepwalker
Featuring: Imran, Artwise, Mark Essential, Ishaaq, Kindred Collective( FreakyZ,Deadleft,Shahrir)
Price: $5
Available at Xzibit,Far East Plaza
Track Listing
1. How To Spell Freedom- Imran Feat. MC Sleepwalker
2. School U (I'd like 2)- Mark Essential
3. Flower- Ishaaq Feat. Ayin
4. Passion- Kindred Collective
5. You And I- MC Artwise
6. Let It Be- Imran
Throbs From The Chest is a local mini-compilation/mixtape by MC Sleepwalker. The 1st impression that i got of the album when i popped the disc into the discman could be summed up in one word: PRETENTIOUS BULLSHIT.
Saturday 10 April 2004 1400 hrs:The warbling of Imran on the first few seconds didn't really impress me,instead it induced me into a momentary state of coma.I skimmed through all the tracks to find similar concepts and beats (bar Passion). I then refused to listen to the rest of the album.
Saturday 10 April 2004 2300 hrs: Armed with a cup of hot tea.I hesitantly decided to venture into the same audio journey that i underwent earlier in the afternoon. As I inserted the disc into my stereo, i knew that there was no turning back. And then Imran's voice came in. Surprisingly, his voice sounded soothing this time. Then the beat kicks in and MC Sleepwalker flows on the track smoothly with a tinge of dancehall style. Sleepwalker doesn't steal the show from Imran whose neo-soul/jazz vocals were making me loosen my tight muscles. I didnt really catch the subject matter of the track though. The second track seeps in subtly and Imran's falsetto manage to complement this perfect aphrosidiac. Recommended for couples intending to "get it on". "Flower" is a track with addictive percussions as Ishaaq breaks down the lyrical aesthetics of a woman using flora as an analogy. The chorus,sung in Malay, adds a certain authentic originality to the track. "Passion" by The Kindred Collective does what it's supposed to; convey the passion of these young rappers brought up in the urban bohemian streets of Singapore. Excellent beat and quotable verses from Shahrir and Anaiz. "You And I" was at best an average track with average verse,an average flow and a dreamy mellow beat. Didnt make that much of an impact. "Let It Be" draws me in once the guitar gently weeps. Imran starts singing. The lyrics touch me. The chorus tugs at my heartstrings.I put the track on repeat. "To give back to society,what you've taken from me.......If I can't change you, let it be". Definitely the standout track and the best local track that ii've heard in a few months. This track alone merits the $5 for the whole album.
Rating: (8.3)
Therefore,we can conclude that the weather really sucks in the afternoon and can cloud an individual's judgement.
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5:04 AM and they said..
The Grey Album-DJ Danger Mouse
A new trend has emerged in the world of hip-hop. And its changing the face of the whole industry as we know it. It started with 9th Wonder (of Justus League fame) producing a stellar album called God's Stepson which used acapellas from Nas's God's Son album and layered them over his original beats. His album was arguably better than Nas's original. The underground success of God's Stepson caught the eye of Jay-Z who recruited 9th Wonderto produce a track on The Black Album. Using the same concept and tweaking it a little bit,DJ Danger Mouse used samples from The White Album,one of The Beatles most experimental and eclectic albums, and amalgamated them with acapellas from Jay-Z's Black Album thus creating The Grey Album.
Legal chaos ensued with EMI(allegedly claiming to hold rights to The Beatles masters) threatening a lawsuit and DJ Danger Mouse had to stop production and reject all orders of The Grey Album. I managed to download the whole album from www.illegal-art.org. The absolute mastery of the art of sampling is hard to grasp but in this album ,the beats blended perfectly ith Jay-Z's lyrics and flow. The guitar samples from George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" perfectly complements the subject matter and reflective lyrics of Jigga's "What More Can I Say". Of all the beats on the album,this track stands out the most as one can feel the passion being poured into the beat. It seems Danger Mouse's passion equalled Jay-Z's when he created the beats. This album is better than Jay-Z's Black Album and you can get it for free at www.illegal-art.org. The greatest rapper alive and the most influential band ever.What more can i say? An almost perfect album which shows that rock and rap are indeed essentially of the same roots as it breaks all conventions of contemporary music. (9.8)
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11:23 PM and they said..
Monday, April 19, 2004
When Ahmad Farid albeit The Almighty Malay Dancer calls,mortals used to cower in fear. However,in recent times,humans have become complacent and thankless to the Almighty Farid and the decadence of this age shows in the all-time high crime rates,infant mortality rates and the unacceptable rising volume of sales of 5566's latest album. To escape from the pits of Perdition The Ninja Muscle Clan have offerd mortals a chance at redemption and to cleanse their filthy capitalist materialistic souls in the form of an audio CD entitled Gregorian Chants:Jeng Boo Wah Pley. The CD contains 17 tracks of Gregorian Chants that will enlighten your spirit and bring you closer to Farid than you have ever been in your life. This sense of enlightenment sets in on you once you manage to appreciate the lyrical aesthetics of the songs included inside the pseudo-holy poetry of The Farid. The Farid has a voice and the human race should listen: Its Jeng Boo Wah Pley.
To showcase the lyrical depth and dexterity of these Farid Apostles,i have inserted the words and poetry of a Jeng Boo Wah Pley song. In order to connect with the pop-culture savvy youth of today,the Ninja Muscle have recorded the poetry of Farid sung to familiar tunes and jingles like The Rocky theme,Robocop theme,The Star Wars Imperial March theme and many others.
As promised,i have for you the lyrics to Jeng Boo Wah Pley(Robocop's Nirvana)
(sung to Robocop's theme)
jeng jeng jeng Buah Pley
jeng jeng buah pley
jeng jeng jeng jeng buah pley
jeng jeng jeneg buah pley
jeng jeng buah pley
jeng jeng buah pley buah pley
BUAH PLEY!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to your nearest CD shop and purchase the ultimate repentance album..I guarantee you that no longer will you be labelled "Takde Adat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" by Ahmad Farid Evangelists. Go buy it now and experience the sweet angelic sensation of Gregorian Chants: Jeng Boo Wah Pley and if you ever watch West Side Story or Meteor garden again,you will burn in hellllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Repent shithead REPENT!!!!!!!!!
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12:39 AM and they said..
A Pink Cadillac Called Love
I am good with words
I’ve always been….
I am not perfect
And I’ll never be…..
You Saw through my imperfections
And found something that attracts you
What is it, may I ask, that still directs you
To keep on going, to keep on striving
In a Pink Cadillac called Love that we’ve been driving
Though the engine isn’t perfect, we managed to repair it
We polished it everyday cos its our private carriage
We bump HipHop,Soul,Rhythm and Blues
Jazz,Bossa Nova and all that smooth grooves
Love broke down once on New Year’s Day
And I felt trapped in it like I was in a cage
And I wanted to leave to roam the streets on my feet
U managed to convince me to strap my ass to the seat
And its been a long time and Love’s still functioning
What the future will bring,and all the songs we’ll sing
Will be determined by the time we take to work on our Love
And maybe Love will grow wings and soar high above
A Sedan Coup de Ville will forever be a classic
And hopefully we’ll make this Pink Cadillac called Love our private casket
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6:41 AM and they said..
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
It might seem silly
for me to think childish thoughts like these
but i'm so tired of acting tough
and i'm gonna to what i please
-----------Hotel Yorba--------------
--------The White Stripes------------------
So simple..So obvious..Yet so hard to understand..I can empathise with guys who act all tough and grouchy as they have somehow this perception that females find that particular behaviour attractive..well..Acting all tough ain't gonna get you any more sex than you are getting right now.. What you need is a prayer,a very generous god and a Toto ticket..That's what gonna attract most women anyway..Not your emo-ing,not your muscles and definitely not your intelligence..A study in sociology and the relationships between genders will somehow show that any actions or decisions undertaken by a male human being is not of his own accord..He is just doing it as females will find it desirable...A man will not buy a car because he wants one..He buys a car because WOMEN like guys with cars...A man will not go to the gym because he wants to..Sub-consciously,he's doing it because women like beefy guys as potrayed in the movies and by the media..In the eternal words of Dave Chapelle, "A woman's test is material..a man's test is a woman..If he could fuck her in a cardboard box,he wouldn't buy a house.."
The relevance the lyrics fom Hotel Yorba has in accordance to the subject matter of this post is that,it doesnt matter if the you are probably gonna die a virgin as long as you are happy doing what you do even if society finds it unacceptable under the pretext of "childishness"...What's the point of acting tough if I'm still the same old insignificant,ugly.boring,mundane me? I might as well please myself..Some might say i'm just being lesser of a man..Well,at least i'm happy and i'm gonna do what i please..
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6:22 AM and they said..
Sunday, April 11, 2004
"I Have A Rash On My Buttcheeks..thus justifying me losing faith in God..LIFE SUX FOR ME AND ME ALONE..Why God WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!!!!" (The Laments of a typical emo-goth-punk-rebel-Bolshevik Teenager)
The statement above is to reflect the absurdity of the stupid irrelevant posts on some of the intellectually-insulting blogs that i've ever come across. It just infuriates me when people try to act all depressed and deprived while they're typing some shit on a weblog that is made possible by broadband Internet connection that costs a (minimum) $60 every month THAT their [parents are slogging their ass off for. "ooh..i'm depressed..i need an Oreo and some 5566 porn.."
What's with everybody trying to step "emo"? guys,girls,dogs,guys with breasts,chicks with dicks..everybody's doing it..is everybody "emo-ing" cos it will somehow help people to perceive you as being deep,sensitive and ultimately UNIQUE? I've got some news,buster. Every bloody Tom,Dick and Harry (or Tom's Harry Dick) are so called "emo-ing" so that doesnt make you unique and instead expose you for the conformist muddle brained shithead that you actually are. (NEWSFLASH: You are not Kurt Cobain..Trying to act all depressed will not make you popular nor desirable..There's a reason why God handed Kurt a handgun to shoot himself with..Avoid the same fate..)
There seems to be this misconception that if you (yes,the insignificant you) act all "emo" by deliberately walking like you got a boulder on your shoulders, people might actually think you are
A) aesthetically inclined
B) a future rock star
C) a Chinese contemporary dancer and
D) a smart person
when in ACTUALITY they think you are
A) a shithead
B) a 5566 fan who didn't get your goodie bag during their autogarph signing session at West Mall
C) a chihuahua deprived of an evening walk in the park by your master
so stop your "emo-ing" and get back down to reality where you are just a mediocre homo-sapien whose conception into this world was probably a mistake and start slogging your ass off studying for your A levels which probably will not get you anywhere in life nor make you happy..hey,its less work than trying to keep up with that "emo" facade.
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6:17 AM and they said..
Friday, April 09, 2004
Always You- The Mat Defects (Lyrics:Z.Abidin)
Cupid died with a broken heart
And an arrow through his chest
He called out his ex-girlfriend's name
As he lay and bled to death
The girl that left him
Said that she still has no regrets
But deep inside her consciousness
She still wants him back
Why is it always you
Can you help me through
And its always you
Say you wanna hold me too (Chorus x2)
We've been through good times and bad
Why'd you have to make me sad
Now i call out your name
as i lay and bled to death
Chorusx3
The landmark of every great songwriter is a catchy song. And i'm banking on this shit. The reason as to why i've fallen out of love with hiphop is there's absolutely nothing fresh,fun and catchy about it anymore.Everybody sounds the same,everybody's doing something "gangsta" on the block(e.g slanging dope,smoking weed) and the airwaves and the Internet is saturated with bullshit hiphop. Jay-Z's retired,Andre 3000 might be crossing over to jazz and start his own saxophone quartet and 50 Cent loves a girl "like a fat kid loves cake". What kind of idiot uses that as a simile?!!!! So that's it. I might be doing some rhyming just to show cats i can still kick their asses once in a while but i'm now unofficially a ROCK N ROLL STAR (at least in the sense that i'm an unkempt asshole). And i'm looking forward to The Mat Defects 1st jamming session.
The Mat Defects (not yet confirmed)lineup:
Zainal Lennon (Vocalist)
Zarifi Alexis Sistach Quintebani (Guitarist)
Amirul Afifi/Mat Simply Red (Bassist)
Zulaikha Babysitter (Drums)
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12:29 AM and they said..
The Ultimate Mat Defect
Definition of A Mat Defect: A social reject who is perceived to be unattractive,insignificant and is basically a thorn in society's flesh who refuse to conform to its conventions. Previous incarnations that have since sold out are the Skater Boy, Mat Gangster Lepak Bawah Block. An example of a Mat Defect that did'nt sold out is the Mat Rock,an ancient ancestor of the Mat Defect in the 70's which are dwindling but its presence and influence still felt.
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5:27 AM and they said..
