Word: drums
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...band, which also features Daniel M. Curtis on bass and John W. Mileham on drum machine and computer sampling, has completed its first album, and is scheduling a release party for early December. Free mp3s are available on their website...
...what) exactly is Cocorosie? Is it (she? they?) an electronic group with a drum machine? “Lusciously luminous” indie-pop-tronica? This girl with a ridiculous hair-cut that looks, lip-synchs, and dances like Ben Affleck jumping on a trampoline in front of digi-stars of David and computerized boots? I think...
...student space issues that are currently afflicting the campus. In our current state of affairs, the Black Students Association, one of the largest and most prominent student groups on campus—cultural or otherwise—has its office in the ultra-glamorous location of—drum-roll please—Holworthy basement! Meanwhile, the offices of the numerous other ethnic and cultural organizations—those that even have offices—are scattered to the four winds, with no centralized location of any kind. A multicultural center would solve these problems of office space, and additionally...
...about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...
Contradictions abound on the CD, but what you notice most is the music. West is a master of samples and drum loops, and co-producer Brion can play anything with strings. Together they make one of the better-sounding rap records in history. Diamonds from Sierra Leone features the Bassey sample, keyboards stolen from a Vegas lounge act and a horn section fit for a coronation. Gone opens with an Otis Redding sample (from It's Too Late) and a two-note piano melody. Then there's a thwack of percussion and what seems like eight different string sections playing...