!:. . album: The Music Scene . .:!
::. artist: BLOCKHEAD .::
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!:. label: Ninja Tune .:!
!:. cat.nr: ZENDNL 149 .:!
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!:. year: 2009 genre: Electronic .:!
::. source: WAV quality: VBR @ 179kbit .::
::. size: 85MB total: 12 tracks .::
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: R E L E A S E N O T E S :
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New York hip hop producer Tony Simon aka Blockhead returns .
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Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based .
around the hip hop template, but on The Music Scene he .
elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to .
the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working .
from one basic beat and building off it (the standard .
hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple .
beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, .
surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself .
puts it, I made each song a little more of a musical .
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Blockheads ambition to tell stories without words is .
evident from opener Its Raining Clouds onwards. The .
tune starts off as classic downtempo and ends up almost .
drum and bass, the music having changed and fallen away, .
echoing back through itself and feeding into previous .
themes at least three times. Its an epic in an album of .
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At the heart of the record is the remarkable The Daily .
Routine an exploration of drug addiction (based around .
a found recording of drug addicts arguing), Blockhead says .
its pretty much the creepiest song Ive ever made. .
Four Walls, meanwhile aims a musical broadside at the .
current vogue for autotune. Which One Of You Jerks Drank .
My Arnold Palmer is huge ambient space rock hip hop. The .
Prettiest Seaslug is Bahia-beat on opium. Tricky Turtle .
begins as afro-blaxpoitation, turns into a voodoo orgy and .
ends somewherte in the Middle East. Farewell Spaceman .
starts off sounding like an outtake from Bewitched and .
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While The Music Scene represents a development in .
Blockheads work, he still holds true to his basic beliefs .
about music and rhythm. When not working on his new album .
he has been providing production for Aesop Rock, DJ .
Signify, Joanna Erdos and many more, plus remixes for .
Yameen and Chin Chin, amonst others. Whereas the music .
scene is a bastardized version of something that was .
already watered down, Blockheads The Music Scene, like .
his career as a whole, is the opposite of that. By .
re-working, chopping and melding samples, by blending them .
together, Blockhead restores rather than dilutes their .
purity. .
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!:. 01: It's Raining Clouds 05:55 .:!
!:. 02: The Music Scene 04:50 .:!
!:. 03: Only Sequences Change 04:45 .:!
!:. 04: Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold .:!
!:. Palmer 04:49 .:!
!:. 05: Attack The Doctor 05:47 .:!
!:. 06: The Prettiest Sea Slug 04:36 .:!
!:. 07: The Daily Routine 06:49 .:!
!:. 08: Tricky Turtle 04:39 .:!
!:. 09: Four Walls 05:43 .:!
!:. 10: Pity Party 04:23 .:!
!:. 11: Hell Camp 04:38 .:!
!:. 12: Farewell Spaceman 06:37 .:!
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