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Arsenal - 'Oyebo Soul'

WORLDBEAT MEETS ELECTRONICA", shouts the sticker affixed to Oyebo Soul's cover. Arsenal's web site also (somewhat inarticulately) exploits the genre-bending angle: "When others try to mix different influences the way these guys have... they generally end up with something similar to a JB-Coke... Arsenal turned their oyebo soul into pure brandy." Apparently this means that a couple of producers from Belgium have assembled a bunch of performers and accomplished musical alchemy. It's not as exciting as it sounds. Arsenal, otherwise known as Hendrik Willemyns and John Roan, have made quite a pleasant record. Oyebo Soul (which means "whiteboy soul", as nearly as I could pinpoint by extensive Googling) is chock-full of the promised hand drums, jungle sounds and summery multilingual singing, as well as the more digitized embellishments that make up the "ELECTRONICA" participant in this particular rendezvous. Electric piano and beguiling female "ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ya"s churn up pleasantly hypnotic rhythms in "A Volta" (Oyebo Soul's Track That Got On a Bunch of Comps); "Longee" takes an approach that's more pop/rock than worldbeat, putting guitars in the forefront of its instrumental element. The (female) vocals in the beginning of the song reinforce this impression, sounding a bit like early Michael Jackson given free rein with a delay unit. Very pretty. What Oyebo Soul is missing is substance. The worldbeat influence lends Arsenal's work an organic feel, but it seems like just that: a loan. Good production is lovely, but it will only get you so far, while from a songwriting standpoint, melodies that aren't all that interesting to begin with are repeated too many times over the course of individual songs. I suppose you should expect some fluff from a disc with a track called "Mr. Doorman" about trying to get into da club, but Oyebo Soul, for all its scholarly mix of sounds, threatens to float away. -- Sarah Zachrich http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?r...095416002203268

Cant believe I have to eat crow on this one, but Boston deserved the win. I predict the Yankees will get Soriano back as well as some pitchers - they dont seem to have many of that species :reallymad:

I think there is a big difference between the Bush administration and what the democrats have to offer. I'd reconsider, CA...

Rocker Courtney Love pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday for hitting a clubgoer on the head with a microphone stand during a performance. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson granted Love a conditional discharge, meaning her case will be sealed after one year if she pays the victim $2,236 to cover medical expenses, joins a drug-treatment program and does not commit any other crimes. If Love violates the conditions, she could face 15 days in jail. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_courtney_love

Police stun 75-year-old By Matt Garfield The Herald The Rock Hill Police Department is investigating why an officer used an electric stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who refused to leave a nursing home where she had gone to visit an ailing friend. http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/41...p-3890580c.html

A lot of people are up in arms about these machines. The head of Diebold, who makes them, is a Bush supporter..this does not sit well with a lot of people

Well....I guess it was worth repeating :good job:

Nope - Jon Stewart spins his own Crossfire appearance http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2653047

I think its a national disgrace at how this president has thumbed his nose at the naacp and the rest of the black community

Flowers? Satanic Majesties Request I dont think so

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Aint that the truth :bigsmile:

Microsoft to Debut 'Istanbul' Application By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: October 19, 2004 Filed at 8:54 p.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. introduced on Tuesday a desktop computer application that aims to seamlessly integrate e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, traditional phone service and Internet-based calling. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology...munication.html

Hey, we kept it a good series for the fans - but tomorrow night the Yanks return to form :bigsmile:

Rain, rain, and more rain projected for Southern California :(

Have you tried Amazon?

Paramount Classics has just acquired the rights to Jay-Z's rags-to-riches documentary Fade To Black. In addition to giving a glimpse of Jay's rise to stardom, the documentary centers around last November's Madison Square Garden farewell concert. ... Fade To Black also features a host of Jay's friends, including, Dame Dash, Beyonce Knowles, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Foxy Brown, Pharrell Williams,?uestlove of The Illadelphonics, P. Diddy and Slick Rick. Jay-Z's Fade to Black is scheduled to drop November 5. http://64.4.16.250:80/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang...fpCCVbafpL9g%2f

"Mozart was obsessed with filthy verse and breaking wind - evidence, says the composer James McConnel, that his hero was a fellow Tourette's sufferer." http://mpr.c.topica.com/maacLgzabaSUKbfpCCVbafpL9g/

After exactly five years of waiting for the follow-up to 1999's magnificent Black on Both Sides, Mos Def opens by rehashing the final minutes of "Rock 'n' Roll" with the less-than-subtle assistance of Black Jack Johnson. Mos, say it ain't so. Curiously, despite Mos' on-the-mark vocalizing about the neglected acknowledgment of the Afro-American influence on rock, he chose the arguablyleast "black" form to express himself. Granted, more African-American creative input in modern rock would be a wonderful thing-- and Mos' attempt is laudable-- but as he says, "I ain't try to fuck with Limp Bizkit," suggesting that rap and rock are two very different beasts whose collusion could be disastrous. Yet both "Freaky Black Greetings" and "Zimzallabim" borrow heavily from the Chocolate Starfishplaybook. Suffice to say, Mos' cry, "We show you how to really make a moshpit bounce" is unconvincing at best. Read the full pitchfork review here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...ew-danger.shtml

Panda Bear Young Prayer [Paw Tracks; 2004] The Beach Boys come up sometimes in discussions of the Animal Collective, which would seem very strange if you caught the group on the wrong record. When they get noisy and decide to experiment, they're more Bryn Jones than Brian Wilson, but both this year's exceptional Sung Tongs and the less-heard 2003 live-in-the-woods documentCampfire Songs had those familiar high-pitched and intertwined harmonies. The Animal Collective's relationship to the Beach Boys is unusual, though, as they don't seem particularly inspired by Wilson's compositional sense. More than anything, Animal Collective taps directly into the thing that made the Beach Boys a 20th Century American version of sacred music. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...ng-prayer.shtml

Polls say Bush and Kerry in statistical dead heat http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics...faOP3PeDtzEL7/w

Defiance County man arrested in alleged voter registration-crack cocaine scheme A Defiance County man has been arrested for allegedly filing more than 100 false voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP’s voter registration drive http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a.../%20%2041018011

HELP, I'M STONED, WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR? 2004-10-15 Short Answer: John Kerry Long Answer: If you like the job George W. Bush is doing as President, you should go ahead and vote for him. But if you ask HIGH TIMES, that's a bad idea. We think he lied about Iraq being a war of last resort, and that's too big a lie to let pass. Now, maybe you have faith in the President, and don't think he would lie about a war. Fair enough. But first, stop and think about America's other war, the one we're fighting (and losing) in Colombia, the one that targets and arrests cancer patients at gunpoint, the one that's filling our for-profit prisons, the one that's denying first-offense non-violent pot smokers college loans, the one we know to be nothing but a big lie, a lie that's grown bigger and bigger since Nixon first told it as part of his election campaign in 1968: The War on Drugs. Let's say it plain: The War on Drugs is bullshit. And, to borrow a cliche, now more than ever the War on Drugs is bullshit. Every dollar the Bush administration has spent on television ads blaming pot smokers for 9/11, or paying Tommy Chong's rent, is one less dollar spent to secure a port, put body armor on a soldier, or hunt down Osama Bin Laden. This seems obvious, until you remember that the Drug War is not about reality, and it's not about winning. Everyone knows it can't be won, but it can continually sustain the Drug Warriors, people like Bush's Drug Czar John Walters, who consistently claims that marijuana is more dangerous than heroin. In the 1980's, John Kerry exposed the hypocrisy of these Drug Warriors. While serving on the Senate's Foreign Relations Commission, he headed an investigation that turned up extensive evidence of drug deals involving the CIA and the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, evidence that pointed directly to the drugs-for-arms-for-hostages scheme at the heart of the Iran Contra Scandal. Kerry wasn't afraid to take on the dirty dealers who run our nation's corrupt Drug War, just as he took on the corrupt masters of war in the Pentagon after returning from duty in Vietnam. And in the other corner, wearing the red trunks, we have GWB, who took the easy way out of 'Nam, supporting the war he would let someone else fight (with a little help from Daddy's friends). After securing W. a spot in the "champagne unit" of the Texas National Guard, Bush's father would go on to head the CIA during its freewheeling 70's days of military coups and international narcotics dealing, and was promoted to Vice President by the time the agency's Contra connection was exposed by John Kerry. Meanwhile, Bush Jr. spent the first half of the 80's getting wasted (perhaps on some of his father's Contra coke), and the second half letting Daddy's rich friends bail him out of failed businesses, and make him managing general partner of the Texas Rangers. Now he's our President. Last year, 700,000 people were arrested for pot in the United States, and Bush's Justice Department continued to raid state-sanctioned medical marijuana gardens at gunpoint. John Kerry has promised to end the raids on medical marijuana gardens, immediately, and will have a policy towards marijuana and other drugs that makes sense. The alternative, four more years of Bush, is a continuing disaster for the rights of pot smokers (and many other Americans). But don't take our word for it: Further Reading: KERRY'S MARIJUANA EXPERIMENT The Democratic presidential nominee speaks out in support of a groundbreaking proposal from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to grow marijuana for FDA-approved medical-marijuana research. Testimonials: "I've met plenty of people in my lifetime who've used marijuana...about the same amount as some people drink beer or wine or have a cocktail. I don't get too excited by any of that." John Kerry to Rolling Stone, September 2003 "There is no question that marijuana reform policies would be better served with someone else in office other than George Bush." Keith Stroup, former director of NORML "When it comes to the drug war, the Bush administration is a disaster." Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance "Kerry would stop the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids on seriously ill medical marijuana patients as president. Kerry has previously said he favors federal legislation to allow people with cancer, AIDS, and other serious illnesses to have medical marijuana, with their doctors' approval. Marijuana Policy Project, who graded Kerry A- on marijuana policy "As a Senator, Kerry has been supportive of statewide medical marijuana reform efforts in his home state of Massachusetts. He praised legislation approved by the Massachusetts legislature in 1996 that sought to establish a medicinal marijuana therapeutic research program, and most recently, he wrote a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in support of a University of Massachusetts Amherst proposal to manufacture marijuana for FDA-approved medical marijuana research." from NORML.org "When you look at what's happening on the front lines of the drug war under the Bush administration, the federal government has waged war against sick and dying people who use medical marijuana and those compassionate enough to help them. We need to unite and get George Bush out of office. We need to vote for John Kerry." Dominic Holden , Seattle Hempfest http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=278&aid=4

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