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hubpages.com Volume 26 1) Burning Bridges – Mike Curb Congregation Come On Down – Big Daddy Kane, Q-Tip & Busta Rhymes Knock Em Out Sugar Ray – MC Sugar Ray & Stranger D 2) (Do The) Push and Pull- Rufus Thomas Eazy Street – Eazy-E Contact – Jurassic 5 Believe in Yourself – K-9 Posse 3) Memphis at Sunrise – The Bar-Kays Take It Back to Brooklyn – Ol’ Dirty Bastard 4) Sparkling in the Sand – Tower of Power Sally Got a One Track Mind – Diamond D 5) Mother Nature – The Temptations Untouchable – The Firm 6) Find Yourself – The Meters Feel Me Flow – Naughty By Nature Cantwinfaloozin – Kwame 7) Hollywood Swinging – Kool & The Gang Let Me Clear My Throat – DJ Kool Feels So Good – Ma$e Harlem World – Ol’ Dirty Bastard Got to Go – Redhead Kingpin Bring the Horns – Stezo The Blues – Terminator X Money in the Ghetto – Too $hort Basic Mega-Mix – DJ Shadow Coolin’ in cali – 7A3 Inglewood Swingin’ – Mack 10 Razor Blade – Little Royal and the Swingmasters Lethal Weapon – Ice-T No Sell Out – K-9 Posse Kool Is Back – Kool G Rap Can’t Stop The Bumrush – Masta Ace Party Over Here – Lord Finesse 9) I Don’t Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops) = Gap Band Snoop’s Upside Ya Head – Snoop Dogg Ooops Upside Your Head – Snap DJ Quik – Mo’ Possy Spice 1 – Strap On The Side 10) Reach Out of the Darkness – Friend and Lover Albee Square Mall – Biz Markie Psyko Funk – Boo Yaa TRIBE 2 Hype – Kid ‘N Play Special Thanks to GILLY & POUNDCAKE and…. Music Trends – The DJs Toystore 2947 Hempstead …

Way back at the beginning of this decade we’ve come to know as the ‘noughties’, it was The Libertines that first kick-started the new revolution of bands loudly and proudly proclaiming their London roots; name-checking both Caledonian Road in Islington and Vallance Road in Bethnal Green on their debut album, ‘Up The Bracket’. Later, rapper Dizzee Rascal also paid homage to his hometown through his rhymes – “I socialise in Hackney and Bow / I wear my trousers ridiculously low”.

Likewise, during the 1960s and 1970s bands such as The Kinks, The Clash and The Jam penned numerous odes to their hometown, most notably The Clash’s anti-Racism anthem “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais”.

So it’s not that this was a new trend; it was just that London bands proclaiming their hometown pride had become scarce in music for over a decade. Previously, for example, in the late 1990s, Manchester had stolen most of the nation’s musical limelight, with the emergence of the massively popular ‘Madchester’ scene, as well as the rise of bands such as The Smiths and The Fall during the 1980s.

Today, London again seems to be experiencing something of a renaissance. A handful of recently founded independent record labels have helped breathe some new air into the somewhat smoggy London scene. Founded in 2004, Transgressive Records released early singles by recent Mercury Music Prize nominees ‘The Young Knives’. Its reputation for being synonymous with new cutting-edge British indie music soon saw it snapped up by Warner Brothers as a subsidiary. Likewise, the Angular Recording Corporation was founded in 2003 and gave the likes of Bloc Party their first exposure.  Read more...

After Bach and Handel, trumpet playing declined. Haydn, the great successor of these two masters, did not do well with trumpets. When Haydn entered the service of Prince Esterhazy, music-loving prince of Austria, his orchestra at first did not include trumpets at all.

As late as 1766, the regular personnel of this orchestra, one of the foremost in Europe, consisted of six violins and violas, one cello, one string bass, one flute, two oboes, two bassoons and four horns but no trumpets or cornets. Several years later the resources of the orchestra were enlarged so that trumpets and tympani could be added when needed.

Even when Haydn did use trumpets, he scored for them so they played an octave or a sixth above the horns. To this thin arrangement he added drums for accompaniment. He probably felt the need of filling in with something, and the drums seemed the most appropriate.

Mozart, who was at first Haydn’s pupil but whose genius lifted him to a place above his master, seemed to share Haydn’s dislike for trumpets. This antipathy for trumpets was due to an extremely sensitive nature. Until Mozart was ten years old, the sound of the trumpet was excruciatingly painful to him, and he could not endure it.  Read more...

You probably download MP3 music for free using programs like Kazaa and BearShare. Or you could be the kind of person who gets software and other paid applications through torrents. With new features, peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing is now as ubiquitous as Internet browsers themselves.

File sharing as a practice has been around for ages. Older readers may remember the days of the Sneakernet when people had to physically transfer data, or those of the humble floppy disk, which carried only 0.1% of the capacity of today’s USB drives. Modern P2P technology – the same one that gives you free MP3 music downloads – is just a new update to an old idea.

The Predecessors of P2P

It was FTP, developed in the early 1980’s, that was the first predecessor of modern P2P sharing. FTP relied on a central server, from where all the other users got their data. This is similar to the webhosting practices of today. FTP is still in widespread use today in the form of file hosting sites like Rapid Share and Media Fire.

The idea of sharing MP3s was a concept raised soon after MP3s emerged in the 1990’s. In 1998, Michael Robertson opened the doors to MP3.com, the first recorded site that dealt with – among others – free MP3s. Copyright issues, however, forced the foundling site to quickly close shop.

Napster’s New Approach  Read more...

When I first started studying the history of music, I did not know what I was getting into. I had a notion that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit…

Honestly, I only followed my history of classical music course because I needed the credits. I am sure some of you out there can relate to that. I did not know how fully interesting music history could be. You see, in our culture many of us do not really study to comprehend music. For much of the world, music is a language, but for us it is a thing that we consumed passively.

When I started to study about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience using musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really comprehend what music is all about. This class showed me.

When a lot of us think about the history of music, it means the history of rock music. We presume that the history is plain because the music is plain. In fact, neither is the case. The history of music, whether you’re talking about classical music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complex. New chord structures are set up carrying with them new forms of understanding humanity. New rhythmic patterns are established, carrying with them new methods of understanding history. And music shows all of it.  Read more...