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I respect Paris for Sandwiches because it takes guts to put out a novelty track when you know it's certain to typecast you, as a serious musician and DJ, in exactly the wrong way. But let's face it, that track was *so right*! But I had respect for Paris long before that -- when i was visiting Detroit in 1997 and saw him play at St Andrew's, didn't have any idea who he was, and he lit up that room playing a classic *real* DJ set intermixing house, techno, jungle, booty and jit. The only thing missing was Brian on the mike! No seriously, from a DJ point of view it was an excellent example of how to surf genres and still keep a cohesive musical flow. So: respect. phred
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assault and paris the black fu will be playing at club douala, ravensburg, germany, europe, planet earth, solar system ... at the 30th of december :- looking forward to it. peter - Original Message - From: Rich Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:36 PM Subject: [313] DJ Assault - Live_wow_ So I took in DJ Assault's show last night and I have to say, anyone who's wavering _run_ and grab a ticket when he's around. Haven't seen such an interesting set in a long time. He created new combinations with a base of sped up electro soundings, hip hop approaches like just dropping tracks in to change, excellent scratchings, juggling the beat, and hip hop vocal punctuations, Jamaican ideas like tracks that set a fast beat to dance to but one could dance at half speed to the bass line, some jungle sounding tracks (but in a good way), very varied but always electro booty sorta kept together. wow. me like Rich:) http://www.fade.to/arc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [313] DJ Assault - Live_wow_
assault and paris the black fu will be playing at club douala, ravensburg, germany, europe, planet earth, solar system ... at the 30th of december :- looking forward to it. peter - Original Message - From: Rich Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:36 PM Subject: [313] DJ Assault - Live_wow_ So I took in DJ Assault's show last night and I have to say, anyone who's wavering _run_ and grab a ticket when he's around. Haven't seen such an interesting set in a long time. He created new combinations with a base of sped up electro soundings, hip hop approaches like just dropping tracks in to change, excellent scratchings, juggling the beat, and hip hop vocal punctuations, Jamaican ideas like tracks that set a fast beat to dance to but one could dance at half speed to the bass line, some jungle sounding tracks (but in a good way), very varied but always electro booty sorta kept together. wow. me like Rich:) http://www.fade.to/arc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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assault and paris the black fu will be playing at club douala, ravensburg, germany, europe, planet earth, solar system ... at the 30th of december :- Maybe its just me, but i'm kinda surprised anyone on this list actually respects Paris. I'm sorry, but sandwiches was uninspiring, unimaginative, unfunny, and it almost made it on to MTV's TRL. I just remember reading a metrotimes review that said that their beat structure was nothing short of brilliant. what!? _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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i definitely think paris deserves respect. i thought sandwiches was funny, and I think it worked on a number of levels -- although if you fail to understand irony, I can see how you would disagree. On the one hand, the lyrics were funny in a totally up-front silly sort of way, in the same way that weird al yankovic is funny. but then I think paris and andy are funny in another way as well -- i think the pubahs' novelty songs are making fun of novelty songs. they're poking fun at weird al and that sort of goofy humour. their lyrics are self-referentially funny. when paris sings that lyric about making thighs like butter, he knows its silly, and he knows you know its silly, and he's making fun of himself singing this ridiculous lyric, that still is funny without any irony in it at all. also, i don't think a song loses its value just because it almost made it on MTV's TRL. And I like their beat structures. that's all -- Scribe Content dude Neksis EMC Inc. http://www.neksis.com -- From: Jayson B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] DJ Assault - Live_wow_ Date: Fri, Dec 8, 2000, 10:38 AM Maybe its just me, but i'm kinda surprised anyone on this list actually respects Paris. I'm sorry, but sandwiches was uninspiring, unimaginative, unfunny, and it almost made it on to MTV's TRL. I just remember reading a metrotimes review that said that their beat structure was nothing short of brilliant. what!? _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jayson B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: assault and paris the black fu will be playing at club douala, ravensburg, germany, europe, planet earth, solar system ... at the 30th of december :- Maybe its just me, but i'm kinda surprised anyone on this list actually respects Paris. I'm sorry, but sandwiches was uninspiring, unimaginative, unfunny, and it almost made it on to MTV's TRL. I just remember reading a metrotimes review that said that their beat structure was nothing short of brilliant. what!? What?!?!? you say ...Respect yes! Agree with the tactics of mtv/jive records/TRL etc . ..no FYI.. everyone is worthy of respect if we think that we ,ourselves deserve repect Sandwiches...ummm I've heard an awful lot of awful records released this past year that where ..uninspiring,unimaginative .. and just plain junk! At least sandwiches makes me smile :) _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
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i definitely think paris deserves respect. i thought sandwiches was funny, and I think it worked on a number of levels -- although if you fail to understand irony, I can see how you would disagree. Although this sounds like a stab at my intelligence, i'll ignore it. Could it be that i don't care for that kind of irony? On the one hand, the lyrics were funny in a totally up-front silly sort of way, in the same way that weird al yankovic is funny. I'll have to disagree with that one. Al was clever in his word choice. But i'll look at the rest of your arguement first. but then I think paris and andy are funny in another way as well -- i think the pubahs' novelty songs are making fun of novelty songs. I think they're attempting to be as stupid as possible in order to be funny, yes. When paris decides to show off his thong every chance he gets, he's attempting to be as stupid as possible in order to be funny. Maybe its just me, but i like my stupid humor to be borderline insane. Skits like poo boy on the kids in the hall would be a good example. But it seemed to me that the pubahs were going for this genius insanity style of humor, and fell short. but again, just matter or opinion. when paris sings that lyric about making thighs like butter, he knows its silly, and he knows you know its silly, and he's making fun of himself singing this ridiculous lyric, that still is funny without any irony in it at all. Same thing as above for me. If in fact they're going for that style of humor, i find them lacking on it. *shrug* also, i don't think a song loses its value just because it almost made it on MTV's TRL. And I like their beat structures. Ok, it doesn't lose its value? *WHEW*, good, now i can pull out my trance mix cds again, because they must be legit again. And i guess if you like their beat structure, that's ok. Personally, i find it over simplified, especially to the high detroit standards that we all supposedly have. _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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Jayson B. wrote: Maybe its just me, but i'm kinda surprised anyone on this list actually respects Paris. Paris gets respect for different reasons than Sandwiches. Sandwiches is *NOT* representative for Detroit Grand Pu-Bahs the group, nor is it representative of what Paris does as an artist (listen to his earlier releases on Throw, esp. The Stalker) or as a DJ (spinning everything from deep house to jungle, and all quality stuff). I'm sorry, but sandwiches was uninspiring, unimaginative, unfunny, and it almost made it on to MTV's TRL. Each to their own tastes of course. I personally thought it was quite hilarious, even though the novelty does wear off after a while (which is a characteristic of novelty, I guess %-) You have to admit though, that if it would've made TRL, it may have lead to 12-year-olds singing make you thighs like butter, easy to spread, which scores as high on the hilarity scale as Kent's little kid shouting I am the operator of my pocket calculator, thus scaring an unsuspecting elderly couple :) Cheers, Otto
Re: [313] DJ Assault - Live_wow_
Maybe its just me, but i'm kinda surprised anyone on this list actually respects Paris. I'm sorry, but sandwiches was uninspiring, unimaginative, unfunny, and it almost made it on to MTV's TRL. I just remember reading a metrotimes review that said that their beat structure was nothing short of brilliant. what!? It is. If you don't like it then go back to russia!
