Ahora que a todos más o menos os gusta el segundo disco de Burial, igual es el momento adecuado para volver la vista atrás y descubrir, si no lo hicisteis en su momento, a Aaliyah. Otro día hablamos de hasta qué punto se puede hablar de influencia de Aaliyah en el underground urbano británico, puede ser interesante.
martes, 11 de diciembre de 2007
Aaliyah - - - "One in a Million"
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Iván Conte
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GROOVE CHRONICLES--"Stone Cold" (Groove Chronicles)
Crafted by rising producer Noodles, this languid-yet-foreboding track samples just a few vocal phrases from Aaliyah's sublime "One In A Million" (a Timbaland production which I always though was like a jungle ballad) and totally reinvents them; Aaliyah's hushed devotional tenderness becomes the ghost-of-my-former-self whispers of a love addict going through emotional cold turkey. The key phrase is "desire" (phrased "deee-siyah", putting a sigh in it): in the original, it's Aaliyah promising to do anything her beloved wants, his heart's desire; here, it becomes a floating signifier, pure intransitive craving, and yet another sign of garage's relentless imagery of appetite and neediness ("what you want, what you need', "giving you what you wanted," etc). Killer moment: when the beat and the jazzy sax solo drops out, leaving just Aaliyah's pleas and reproaches ("you don't know, what you do to me"), then in comes the moodiest wah-wah dread bassline ever. Goosepimples a-go-go.
Simon Reynolds en su lista de favoritos del 98
B: I discovered EL-B and garage at the same time. I heard his Brandy remix, then “Buck n Bury” and “Passage of time” - and I hadn’t even heard “Stone Cold” yet, though I’d heard of Groove Chronicles on something else I didn’t like. Then I heard “Stone Cold” and I was just like “fuck…”
M: The name says it all.
B: It's dark. That tune’s never left my head. That tune is still going around my head from the first time I heard it. And the thing about those drums: they’re still the future. It’s not a lost art – people still don’t know how to do those drums. It’s an unknown thing. It’s like the last fucking secret left in music: how you do those drums. I’ve tried. I’ve locked myself away and tried. And the thing about garage is: the more you look at it like some tech-boy producer, the less you get it.
Burial en su entrevista con Blackdown
http://www.mediafire.com/?0pjyjbdj3mu
(A decir verdad, creo que es la primera vez que escucho esta canción de Aaliyah. Suelo escuchar los últimos singles con Timbaland, o aquel donde sampleaban un bebe, pero no he explorado demasiado el resto (como su disco cuando estaba casada con R. Kelly)...)
Más:
"In London, a whole scene and sound has emerged called 2-step, based around the merger of Timbaland's hyper-syncopated drums with jungle's booming bass and houses's succulent synth licks. The respect that Timbaland and Missy Elliott have received in the eelctronica field shows that although the duo are classified as R&B, their skills at digitally manipulating rhythms and creating eerie sounds make them among the most accomplished and innovative electronic artists on the planet."
Simon Reynolds en un artículo publicado en el New York Times el uno de agosto del 99 y recogido en su libro "Bring the Noise".
No lo he dicho en la entrada, pero para justificar la presencia de la anterior cita hay que decir que Missy y Timbaland son los autores y productores del "One in a Million" de Aaliyah.
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