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Reviews and other such uselessness.
 
I never dug critics, I never dug the idea of them, and I never dug the  
concept of album reviews, I never NOT ONCE bought an album based on a  
review and I never not ever thought reading reviews was worth spending  
time on because in that time I suppose I could go the record store and  
listen to some good music, so its interesting to be sent a bunch of  
reviews in my email, reviews of my work, and be told here is what  
people think....Most of the time I don't bother reading any of my own  
press because it made me crazy once so I just left it alone, this time  
I dabbled and so here I am blogging when I could be doing a million  
other fantastic things like screwing or drinking or eating or well  
anything really.
 
  Its interesting to see we got mainly 4 star reviews, thanks, some  
people didn't like it quite as much and gave it 3 and a half, still  
much better than calling it a useless piece of crap.  The majority of  
the negativity of the reviews focused mainly on the Labels press  
release that was sent out (no we didn't write it) that claimed we were  
"kryptonite to the ordinary" and a mix of "biggie and Sam Cook",  
fantastic, so in the small space a review has to explain what a record  
sounds like the reviewer uses to attack the writing of someone on the  
label, brilliant, or our use of stage names, awsome,  or in some cases  
the designer of the cover art, here's an idea, why don't you review a  
record based on your understanding of music and what you hear when you  
put it on. Call me crazy, and I don't want to burst your bubble but no  
one really cares what you think of the labels presser or our fucking  
stupid stage names or our fucking cover art (which I quite like), ITS  
ABOUT THE MUSIC, how it sounds how it makes you feel.  THATS WHY WE  
LOVE IT, when I got Santo Gold or Battles or Fleet Foxes, it ran a  
chill up my spine because I knew music had a future, and it was  
beautiful and dark and lovely.  I HAD A FEELING, and if i needed to  
write about that feeling the last thing that would concern me would be  
the way their Bio was written or the way they displayed their records  
covers.
 
Its so gross to put out a record in an already flooded market, what do  
you want me to say, "buy this I'm a fucking genius, its the best thing  
since Tribe Called Quest?".  I wont, if you like the sound of what we  
do buy our record and dig a little deeper, if you like the idea of  
what we do listen to more stuff here and decide if you want it, ideas  
and concepts wont get your guts, Music will.  GET IT IN YOUR SOUL
 
Much love
 
RHyNO

To The Skies is a song about about looking to your neighbor and not to some  
idea of god to change your world, Being australian is beautiful  
because when you look to that neighbor they often have a different  
idea of God each time, and they're probably all right about what god  
is, but god won't help us stop these wars, or stop ourselves from  
hurting ourselves or one another, only we can do that, so stop looking  
to the sky, and look left and right.
 
PEACE
 
Ryan
 
To The Skies
Lyrics
We look to the skies, when it's left and right we should look for a  
change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
 
We look into the sky for answers these days fellow mans abandon, life  
is ramblin',
pace of the world goin' get you dance but that pace won't bring the  
answers out
Like everything is fabulous, got a crisp pair of jeans now you acting  
tough
is she actin' up, is she mad at us, well I don't know but she had  
enough of that,
daily grind, daily I'm tryna wade through seas tryna read the signs, why
I can't see to my left and right, why there's no answers in the sky,
my lyrics, my life, my gimmicks, my self hatred, raised an athiest,
I ain't tryna be ignate, I'm tryna find truth and belief and faith.
 
We look to the skies, when it's left and right we should look for a  
change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
 
Lennon said it, man I'm a say it twice IMAGINE, how it could be if it  
were right,
IMAGINE, all the people all the lives, all get along now all acting  
right,
AY YO! D.R.E.A.M.E.R., put the weed down goin', raise the bar, change  
can be found
In the man with nothing to lose, and I ain't got nothing but groove so,
Step to it, get live, find believe man I'll find mine, and no I ain't  
goin' search the sky
I'm a search for the peace to my left and right
free to love yet we need to fight maybe man kind just born to die
maybe those answers won't arrive but damn this I have got to try.
 
We look to the skies, when it's left and right we should look for a  
change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
to the sky, when its left and right we should look for a change of life
 

Rhyno here, blogging about a killer record i've been listening to: 
The Beat Conducta – Movie Scenes Volume I and II
 
A seminal instrumental hip hop record, a smoked out collage of deep  
funk, and possibly the greatest collage record since Shadows,  
Entroducing Movie Scenes Volume I and II is one of the finest examples  
of Talent and Technique over Process.  This is the record I show my  
jazz friends who don’t dig hip hop, this is the record I show my sound  
engineer buddies who think that Sub should be a background thing.  The  
time on this record is so hip in parts that people often think it is a  
recorded mistake.  I played this to a south American percussionist  
friend of mine and what he said pretty much summed it up “its like it  
takes black music, puts it with other black music, and then puts a  
beat under it and makes it blacker” I suppose Movie Scenes is to  
Instrumental Hip Hop, what Wesley Snipes is to 90s hollywood, the  
blackest there is.

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