25. February 2008 by Emmett.

OK…I’m torn on this one. I love all the people involved, the video is good despite being low-budget, and the beeper fashion is goofy enough to be interesting. But the Sinden/Herve/Switch sound has been inching closer and closer to speed garage, and this one kind of puts it over the top (minus the timestretched vocals).

I remember hanging out with these younger kids in high school, they would skip class, wear raver pants every day, get really stoned in their friends’ cars, and play obnoxious music at all times. One kid had bought box sets from HMV of this shit- he basically had 6 CDs of UK hard house, and 6 of speed garage. 2 cube-shaped parcels of aural displeasure. That was all he would want to put in the car stereo, all day, every day. Didn’t even matter whose car he was in.

So, um, I really want to like this, but I’m starting to get weird flashbacks to that time, and oh god pull OVER I NEED TO GET OUT GODDAMN IT MITCH BUY SOME NEW MUSIC AAAAAAAUUGHGHG

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25. February 2008 by Emmett.

First of all, I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Ontario, with no cable TV, internet, nothing. So I never knew what was going on in music and “culture” except what I heard at school.
Anyways, after spending 5 years in the US, I moved back to Canada in high school and sort of evaluated Canadian music for the first time. I remember liking rappers like Choclair (kinda), Rascalz (you remember “Northern Touch,” right?), and Kardinal Offishall. That was…9 years ago.
Point is, other than K-Os, who is an passable rapper but kind of went hippie, Kardinal is still the only guy worth noting in a country of 30+ million.  (Am I forgetting anyone??)

Anyway, Kardi got signed to Akon’s label, good for him. Maybe he’ll start getting some play down south. He also did a great mixtape with Clinton Sparks  (get it here) and a Wire-themed video with Akon:

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