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...third Saturday night of his Harvard career, K. Austin Tillery ’06 is chilling to the beat of his extremely pimped-out stereo. His room, with its throbbing hip-hop beat and many self-consciously collegiate posters advertising four years of a raging party, seems closer to the WB’s idea of the typical dorm room than to reality. The pulsing speakers blast songs full of dilemmas. One rapper just doesn’t know what to do with his car full of girls. Another complains, “Every other city...
...mostly went to private schools, but we’re not exclusive,” says one guy earnestly. Shortly after, a gaggle of Abercrombie-clad women make an entrance and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi-illegal methods through which it was acquired. Discussion of covert nocturnal pole-climbing ensues, which, as the offending party explains, “is very easy when you are lanky...
...slowed behind traffic on one of the roads through Central Park, and I found myself tapping my foot. The tune on the cab's stereo was Arabic but with a catchy, bubbling horn section. I asked who was playing. A Moroccan group, said the cabbie. He told me its name. Did I want to know what it was singing? Certainly. It was a plea to Israel from the Arab people. The chorus was, "We have the same father. Why do you treat us this way?" Who might the father be? I asked. "Ibrahim," he said. "The song is called Ismail...
...livin’ / It’s only tears that I’m cryin’ / It’s only you that I’m losin’,” is Beck’s heartbreaking mantra. It makes you want to reach through the stereo for a good old hug, not just for his sake but maybe for yours...
...official” mix debut, Minesweeper Suite, verges on the epic. Mahmoud Fadl’s Nubian drums ignite the stereo but it’s Donna Summer who graces the final minutes. Impeccably mixed, rhythms mutate fluidly, as opposed to Gold Teeth Thief’s spastic collisions. Sparse French dancehall blossoms into jump-up jungle from DJ Rush Puppy; Bubba’s frantic “Ugly” glides into a head-nodding Akrobatik beat that gets swallowed whole by the industrial grind of /rupture’s Nettle alias; Mutamassik’s shuffling...