Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absolutely unforgettable. Soul Coughing has always carefully crafted their music around a strong, supremely danceable groove influenced heavily by hip-hop and funk. Their trademark beat is something they descriptively term a "gangadank", or as Doughty describes it in the album's press release "a kind of guitar rhythm I invented in an attempt to recreate a hip-hop groove on an acoustic guitar--it goes gankadank, gank-duh-did-dank...
...poetry. One of the best songs on the album, "Misinformed," opens with funky low toms accented by pounded anvils and noises straight out of the Legend of Zelda, followed by a synthesized melody from what sounds like a tunable whoopie cushion. Bubbling out of this conglomeration of noise and rhythm comes Doughty, singing his own special brand of witty and penetrating poetry...
Following the announcement of their disbanding, A Tribe Called Quest released their final album, entitled The Love Movement. People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, which forged jazz and hip-hop in a new and magnetic way, was Tribe's 1990 debut. Their new album seeks to simplify and speak on real life issues of love and relationships...
...Rhythm and Spice has a Caribbean menu best known for its jerk cooking. 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., 315 Mass...
Another catchy tune--but much harder to convey in writing--is one in which the players simply spell out Harvard or Crimson in a specific rhythm as follows: "C, r, i-m-s, o-n, C-r-i-m. s, o, n-C-r, i-m-s-o-n." It's better if you just hear...