#avant-rap

[studioworkout]

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GAWS

AWRS

Andrew Huang

posi-90s alterny-rap in 15/8

avant rap

[thenextmovement]

Company Flow - "8 Steps To Perfection" (Official Recordings, 1993)

'When the rhyme gets crazy hot and the lyrics don't know how to act...

[letsbeindependenttogether-blog]

'Shabazz Signs To Sub Pop' Poster

Limited Edition: Poster to commemorate 'Shabazz Palaces' signing to Sub Pop Records.

Released: June 2nd 2011

Price: $10

[thebravenew-blog]

Take in Avant-Rap with Ordo and Get Down with the Sickness with Gladys

Meet Ordo, the first person in January's challenge to approach me, rather than vice versa.  Without a doubt the most soft-spoken man I've ever met in my life, he had timidly approached my group of friends looking for a cigarette, and sadly we could not oblige.

Ordo was checking out Low End Theory, an underground club in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles oft credited with bringing dubstep to the west coast.  Here a young crowd takes in what the event describes as "psychadelic, glitch, avant-rap, IDM [and] dubstep".  If you don't know what these terms allude to, you're not alone.  We go to figure that out.

Despite the club being occupied largely by music afficianados and DJs, Ordo revealed that he knew almost nothing about music.  Born in Inglewood and raised in South Central LA, he explained that there were only two things to do.  Gang-banging and graffiti.  He had opted for street art, and is now a mural painter and fine-artist.

It was a strain to hear Ordo, but this 24 year old had a lot to say.  Hopefully I'll see him again, and I'll be tweeting his art shows for those Angelinos who want to join up!

And what did I do yesterday?

Having come down with either a head-cold or Ebola, I was faced with a difficult decision:  stay in or become patient zero in a freakish outbreak that would bring society to it's knees.  I've always wanted to bring society to it's knees, but I guess that'll have to wait until I have a motorcycle and a longer list of one-liners.  That being said, at the urgings of the corpse-fondler, I grabbed some echinacea at the local pharmacy and stayed in.  At the pharmacy, I talked to the cashier for a little bit.  Her name's Gladys.

And what of everyone else I've met?

To my surprise, almost everyone I've met through this challenge has become a real friend.  Actually people I talk to on a regular basis.  Maybe it's an odd coincidence that the people I've met have been so interesting, with such varying passions and pursuits... but I don't think it is.  I'm willing to bet almost everyone has something about them worth exploring.  Through the people I've met so far, I've learned about the mating habits of flamingos, the philosophy of Alan Watts, the existence of yoga, and how to set one's face on fire with drugs.  Okay, that last thing probably isn't real helpful, but in an emergency situation where one needed to set one's face on fire with drugs, I could totally do it.  With the right supplies.

Anyway, the important thing to note is that this experiment is drastically changing my life already, and I'm not even two full weeks in.

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