Oct 26 2009

Media Monday – 10/26/2009

Category: Media & More,Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 12:00


Oct 26 2009

Junk Culture – West Coast

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

Junk Culture
West Coast
Illegal Art; 2009

West Coast

Hipsters of all stripes (along with the occasional music critic) have been enjoying the music of Girl Talk for the past few years as sampling wunderkind Greg Gillis has wowed our ears with the album-length dance parties Night Ripper and Feed The Animals. Gillis’ skill at manipulating sound and music (without breaking musical copyright laws) is almost without peer, but more importantly, he also manages to get white people to actually listen to the rap, R&B, and hip-hop that they claim to love (but really don’t possess in their iTunes libraries). Well, it seems that he’s found a bit of an understudy, contemporary, and/or protégé (depending upon your definition) in the person of Deepak Mantena, aka Junk Culture. The twist here is that, instead of tweaking, bending, and re-shaping hordes of various song snippets (both current and classic), Junk Culture thrives on collecting and collating sundry sound samples and then refashioning them into thriving instrumental jams.
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