Posts by Robbie Siataga
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Nice one wammo. Yeah i respect poppa Z for taking a risk and all he's done for the churtown scene. I like him. He's always been a shrewd businessman with an eye to the future but i still wouldn' trust him...thats me tho'
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One day we will realise that that those with the real expertise and wisdom are the consumers and those who live with the consequences of poor policy every day.
I once had a boss who reckoned we should build more malls so poor people have more places to go and stay warm during winter...I LOLD.
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we used to have a great Student Radio station here - until some ad salesman who apparently couldn't sell enough ads bought the station for a $1 off the Student Union (as I understand it)
He was first and foremost a drum n' bass DJ, but oh he's come along way baby since doing this remix for us back in the day. Still, all the best to him...
http://idealog.co.nz/magazine/may-june-2008/features/diy
...though at the time i'd wondered if PZ hadn't run the station into the ground then made out he and his lady lawyer could be its only saviour by picking up the license for a dollar ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RDU-FM&diff=174558857&oldid=164634428
'In actual fact', as that link points out, was later edited to say 'actually'. Which in actual fact doesnt actually mean a fuck of alot eh...so why bother ?
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Lets cross live now to breaking news in other parts of the country ?
Hello...Hello, is anybody out there ?...apparently not, and now back to Auckland
...as you were :)
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Anyone know whats been happening in Christchurch at RDU ? How's Pylonz 'one dollar' investment turning out :) ?
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GG allin...punk enough for ya ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin
I would imagine if there were bands, they had to have an audience and possibly because of the ethics and aesthetics of punk in appealing to the southern cracka ass skinhead bootboys, they would have been suppressed/oppressed by the mainstream media so a lot of 'honest' american punk bands wouldn't have made news here.
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So here's that memorial t shirt design...
http://pollywannacracka.blogspot.com/2010/04/duck-rock-4-life.html
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Codpieces ? You can feel it when you walk, even when you talk it takes over...
...the uh conversation. I'lll see your codpiece and raise you an eye patch ?
I wonder if there's a Kevin Bacon, 6 degrees of separation for musical artists linked to Malcolm McLaren.
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I tried vogueing but couldn't grow a big enough pair to do it in public. It still didnt stop me from wearing tights, doc martins, frilly pirate shirts, lace gloves and pouting the odd pose...
...but maybe that was a post nu romantic hangover laced with some adam ant and a splash of prince
Still, i could watch these guys do it all day. On watching this vid again, theres a line early on about 'the challenge of substituting dance for fighting'. That would make vogueing b -boying for gay black kids ?
I think i'm going to do a Malcolm memorial t shirt design now. So whos got some early House of McLaren styled pics of themselves looking erm...punkish, hiphoppish, vogueish ?
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No argument but I can't help feeling that the focus McLaren put on hip hop gave it a huge shove. And hip hop exploded out of the underground urban community outside the US far faster than it did in its homeland and Malcolm's releases were pretty crucial to that crossover.
Yeah it's usually how it goes with black music whitened up for airplay. From jazz and American swing bands to UK blues copying bands of the 60's to Kode9 and dubstep recently. Hell, even our own barbecue reggae.
The thing is, it's not enough to philosophise, intellectualise and whitewash shit. In order to connect with the critical masses beyond, the tunes have to be bangin and Buffalo gals is all that and a bag of crisps !
But i reckon that's more 'the world famous supreme team show' than it was Malcolm or the 'art of noise' guy. Still, whatever it was it worked a treat.
Sure nuff tho', Malcolm was definitely a first generation digital pimp so massive kudos for that. And as for the video, i lost count of the times we re wound the 'moonwalk' bit.
On another tangent, it's a shame that hiphop killed the big funk band star. I guess thats why it took a little longer to get traction in the states, cos black america was still in the thralls of their r'n'b funk bands.
Where as disempowered blacks elsewhere, inclusive of pasifikans here, didnt have that tradition, so embraced hiphop for what it was. Ghetto street music.
About time we had a resurgence out of the states for the big black funk band dont you think ? I'm over the one man supa producer. To think all them kids who would have been learning the intricacies of cranking up a stoking horn section are prolly slinging crack instead and dreaming of being the next Pharell, Dream or Ryan Leslie.