Whole Lotta Red vs. Kind of Blue. John Coltrane vs. Cannonball Adderley. Snippet as reality. Stream as post-mortem. Vamps and endless vamping. What to do when artists let you down.
The thing I'd most want you to do, which is what you're doing here, is to lean hard on talking about the technical aspects of writing and production. Basically the view from the other side of the critical fence. I think you can just assume anyone reading you has the basics of context.
I wrote my senior music history paper on Stockhausen. To see it being compared to Carti out in the wild is hilarious. I would say Carti has a lot of similarities to Xenakis’ “Metastaseis.” Xenakis uses classical and acoustic instrumentation to create something that sounds electronically synthesized at a close listen. He plays with pitch how one would’ve turned a frequency knob on an old analogue synthesizer.
Xenakis is existing in the new world of possibilities of electronic music, and uses a classically oriented arrangement to express something sonically and harmonically extremely modernist/Post-Schoenberg.
Carti Similarly takes a classical form that has been developed and inverts the rules, becoming what I would say is almost the first Dadaist rapper, comparable to Schoenberg as well.
Also the scariness and energy is comparable, but I like your comparison to Stockhausen, I would say specifically something like Stimmung for that wall of sound effect that has a very post-punk connotation today.
I think a lot of rap has suffered since Playboi Carti because it is stuck on him. There are people finding new sounds as well, but a lot of deeply inspired artists including Yeat, the rest of the Opium label, and many others.
playboi carti will go down in history as one of the greatest artists this generation has ever seen but the lamestream will only be able to acknowledge his contributions to music at his retrospective in 30 years
The thing I'd most want you to do, which is what you're doing here, is to lean hard on talking about the technical aspects of writing and production. Basically the view from the other side of the critical fence. I think you can just assume anyone reading you has the basics of context.
totally agree
thanks so much matthew! very helpful
Write about Raffi next
smh
Carti ghostwrote Down By the Bay
apples and bananas is very carti
My advice for the newsletter is is: write more shit like this. This shit goes hard.
i’m bringing you in for the zombie apocalypse playlist reboot
On this evidence, write whatever the hell you want. It's all great stuff
thank you and thank you for reading!
I wrote my senior music history paper on Stockhausen. To see it being compared to Carti out in the wild is hilarious. I would say Carti has a lot of similarities to Xenakis’ “Metastaseis.” Xenakis uses classical and acoustic instrumentation to create something that sounds electronically synthesized at a close listen. He plays with pitch how one would’ve turned a frequency knob on an old analogue synthesizer.
Xenakis is existing in the new world of possibilities of electronic music, and uses a classically oriented arrangement to express something sonically and harmonically extremely modernist/Post-Schoenberg.
Carti Similarly takes a classical form that has been developed and inverts the rules, becoming what I would say is almost the first Dadaist rapper, comparable to Schoenberg as well.
Also the scariness and energy is comparable, but I like your comparison to Stockhausen, I would say specifically something like Stimmung for that wall of sound effect that has a very post-punk connotation today.
I think a lot of rap has suffered since Playboi Carti because it is stuck on him. There are people finding new sounds as well, but a lot of deeply inspired artists including Yeat, the rest of the Opium label, and many others.
I am excited for Cartis new album.
love everything here! thanks for sharing
playboi carti will go down in history as one of the greatest artists this generation has ever seen but the lamestream will only be able to acknowledge his contributions to music at his retrospective in 30 years
fwiw he seems to be doing just fine $$$ wise!
Will be thinking about this for a while. Immediate follow. Shit slaps
i think my favorite playboy carti song is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMDOSLEVdBw