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Paradisiaque
''Paradisiaque'' is the third album by the French musician MC Solaar, released in 1997. Critical reception '' The Guardian'' called the album an "erudite but musically uneven variation on le rap francais." The '' Daily Mirror'' deemed it "one of the funkiest albums you'll ever hear." '' Skiing'' concluded that "Solaar mounts a ferocious lyrical attack, arguably stringing together more rhyming syllables than any other MC at work today." AllMusic wrote that Solaar's "good sense of melody turns the best moments of the album into fine pop-rap that is entertaining even if you don't understand French." Track listing #Intro - :32 #Paradisiaque - 3:12 #Gangster Moderne - 4:05 #Tournicoti - 3:49 #Zoom - 3:53 #Le Sens De La Vie - 4:05 #Dakota - 3:58 #Illico Presto - 4:23 #Les Temps Changent - 3:18 #Daydreamin' - 4:51 #Les Boys Bandent - 3:18 #Les Pensées Sont Des Flowers - 4:02 #Wonderbra (featuring Bambi Cruz) - 4:02 #Le 11 Choc - 3:33 #Protège-Tibia - 4:12 #Quand Le Soleil Devient F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Solaar
Claude M'Barali, professionally known as MC Solaar (; born 5 March 1969), is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists. Some consider him the best French rapper of all time. MC Solaar is known for his complex lyrics and distinctive flows, which rely on word play, lyricism, and inquiry. In the English-speaking world, Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin' Loud and recorded with British group Urban Species and rapper Guru, who was a member of New York-based rap group Gang Starr. Solaar has released eight studio albums and one live album. His eighth studio album, ''Géopoétique'', produced by Alain Etchart and mixed by sound engineer David Gnozzi, won best album of the year at the Victoires de la Musique awards in 2018. Biography Early life Claude M'Barali was born in Dakar, Senegal, to parents from Chad. When he was six months old, his parents immigrated to France where they se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Solaar (album)
''MC Solaar'', the self-titled fourth album (released July 1998) by French- Senegalese rapper, MC Solaar was a shorter effort than his previous releases. Following the funk-grooved sounds of ''Paradisiaque ''Paradisiaque'' is the third album by the French musician MC Solaar, released in 1997. Critical reception '' The Guardian'' called the album an "erudite but musically uneven variation on le rap francais." The '' Daily Mirror'' deemed it "one of ...'', the production style once again changed, to essentially an album of two halves. The first half was reminiscent of his previous effort, with Boom Bass and Phillip Zdar producing the tracks, while the latter half shifting to a grittier, east coast U.S. hip-hop sound. Some of these tracks were produced by the Beatminerz, known for his work with the BootCamp Clik. While different from what fans were used to, Solaar appeared to have no trouble following this new sound. Track listing # "Onzième Commandement" – 3:21 # "Galaktik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Mehdi
Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (20 January 1977 – 13 September 2011), better known by his stage name DJ Mehdi, was a French hip hop and house music producer and DJ. He was signed to the label Ed Banger Records, founded by his friend Pedro Winter, in which he released in 2006 his album ''Lucky Boy'', also the label's debut album. Biography Mehdi was born of Tunisian background in Hauts-de-Seine, the northwestern suburbs of Paris. He was a former disc jockey of the groups Different Teep (ex-group of and Lil Jahson), Idéal J and former member of the collective the Mafia K'1 Fry. He was also a long time the quasi-appointed producer of the group 113 and carried out nearly all the production of the albums for Different Teep and Karlito. Amid his work, Mehdi had remixed various electronic acts and composition soundtracks for many French and international films. After having been recognized for his efforts and budding into one of the French underground hip hop music scene's premier pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prose Combat
''Prose Combat'' is the second studio album by French rapper MC Solaar, released in 1994 by Cohiba Records. Its success propelled him to international fame. An outtake from the album sessions was "Comme dans un film" (falsely known as "John Woo"). This song was featured on the album ''La Haine – musique inspirees du film'' (''La Haine – music inspired by the film''). Track listing French and US editions # "Aubade" (Jimmy Jay, MC Solaar) – 0:35 # "Obsolète" (Jay) – 3:02 # "Nouveau western" ( Gainsbourg, MC Solaar) – 4:34; samples " Bonnie and Clyde" by Serge Gainsbourg # "À la claire fontaine" (Jay, M'Barali) – 2:59 # "Superstarr" (MC Solaar) – 3:03 # "La concubine de l'hémoglobine" (Jay, M'Barali) – 4:49 # "Dévotion" (MC Solaar) – 4:26 # "Temps Mort" (Jay, MC Solaar) – 3:41 # "L'NMIACCd'HTCK72KPDP" (Les Sages Poètes De La Rue) – 5:04 # "Séquelles" (Barali, Jay) – 3:37 # "Dieu ait son âme" (Barali, Pigale Boom Bass) – 4:46 # "À dix de mes disciple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Zdar
Cassius was a French musical duo consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francard, better known as Zdar and Boombass (or sometimes Philippe Zdar and Hubert Boombass). Under its different incarnations the duo is likened to the "French Touch" movement of electronic music in the second half of the 1990s. Members Boombass Hubert Blanc-Francard (; aka Boombass), born 31 March 1967, is a French musician and producer. He is the son of sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard and the older brother of the French musician Mathieu Blanc-Francard, better known by his stage name Sinclair. Zdar Philippe Cerboneschi (, ; aka Zdar; born 28 January 1967 in Aix-les-Bains and died 19 June 2019 in Paris) was a French musician, producer and sound engineer, of Italian descent. Zdar was Dominique Blanc-Francard's assistant at studios +XXX (Plus30) when he met Boombass in 1988. Outside the Cassius group, Zdar was producer and sound engineer. He was the owner of the French recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skiing (magazine)
''Skiing'' was an American magazine devoted to skiing that was in print publication from 1948 until 2017. It was one of the two largest circulation magazines for skiers. Early years Merrill Hastings launched ''Rocky Mountain Skiing'' in 1948, a news-oriented magazine that soon developed into a national publication. In 1950, it changed its name to the ''National Skiing Newspaper''; it became ''National Skiing'' in 1954; and its name was changed to ''Skiing'' in 1956. The magazine competed aggressively with ''Ski'' magazine, which was run by Bill Eldred. In the early years, the magazine was not entirely objective in its reviews, favoring resorts and equipment makers who advertised in its pages. Circulation rose to almost 50,000 in the first ten years. New York In 1964, the Ziff Davis company of New York bought ''Skiing'' magazine and ''Skiing Trade News'' from Hastings, and moved operations to New York. The company's owner, Bill Ziff, raided ''Ski'' magazine for experienced staff. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the '' Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as '' The Sun'' and the '' Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the '' Daily Record'' and the '' Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African popular music in the West. Christgau spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for ''The Village Voice'', during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. He has also covered popular music for ''Esquire'', ''Creem'', ''Newsday'', ''Playboy'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Billboard'', NPR, ''Blender'', and ''MSN Music'', and was a visiting arts teacher at New York University. CNN senior writer Jamie Allen has called Christgau "the E. F. Hutton of the music world – when he talks, people listen." Christgau is best known for his terse, letter-graded capsule album reviews, composed in a concentrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Bass
The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonator. It was bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. Changes in the instrument have produced two distinct variations. Besides the bowed instrument which has been preserved in the 21st century in Lithuania (and possibly Estonia and Flanders), a percussion instrument is used widely internationally, including Europe, North America and Australia. Evolution from fiddle to drum set The instrument was originally a fiddle. It used a flexible stick, a musical bow, as the instrument's body and neck. The resonator, at first an inflated animal bladder, was held between the stick and the bowstring. Versions in Poland, Lithuania and the Netherlands had as many as three strings, but pictures of the Flanders fiddle and the ''Nocturnal Serenade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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