Sublime

arranger Gil Evans,

A central component of “Idioteque” was a sample taken from “Mild und Leise,” an electronic music piece composed by Paul Lansky slightly less than thirty years earlier and released on an obscure 1976 album called First Recordings—Electronic Music Winners.

Pop stardom, the way he defined it, means you keep feeling fascination for the now sound right up to the moment—you don’t settle for what you did yesterday. You tune in to the pop trash all over the radio dial for any ideas worth scavenging.

More than that, many critics were unable to consider that maybe they were not ready to appreciate what was being offered, that they might need more development and less opinion. In reality, too many of the jazz critics of the time had bought into the false belief that they knew what “real jazz” was, and they relished the power they wielded—a type o

An album like Donuts—thirty-one short snippets, manipulated samples, overlaid dialogue, no real songs except that everything there is so endlessly tuneful and rhythmic—made people rethink some of their basic assumptions about music, and not just hip-hop, but all recorded music—made them go back to the beginning, to the drum, to a unit of measuremen

We recognize aspects unnoticed before.

In the culture, there’s always a dialogue between the past, the present, and the future, even when it’s not clear what the influence is.