Do you recognize a genius when you see one? You’re looking at one right now. Hans Zimmer has composed and co-authored more movie soundtracks than most of us can keep track of here, here’s an exhaustive list: show me all of em Not surprisingly, he’s done it again. With Harry Gregson-Williams, he turned out yet another magnificent soundtrack for King Arthur. I haven’t seen the movie and I don’t plan to, it’s supposed to be terrible. But the score is another masterpiece. If there was a way to keep a human being alive forever and there was one spot open for all of humanity, I’m hard pressed to find anyone who would be more fitting for it.

Unlike what one enthusiastic soul wrote on cdnow.com, I hardly consider this Hans’ best work. There isn’t enough substance nor consistency in it to really rank in the top group. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been listening to it for 3 straight days and that’s how you really identify a genius, a craftsman whose average work is a masterpiece…

All hail the king!!!

It’s been a while now since I first discovered rottenoradio.com, a pretty decent Canadian hip hop radio station. It was thanks to Winamp5 and the new media library that I came by it and it turns out to be pretty good. The only problem is that they have a short playlist so after a day or two you tend to hear a lot of the same tracks.

The other day I got a chance to listen to some old Public Enemy records from the album “He got game”, official soundtrack for the movie of the same name. Most of the stuff is a bit to dull for my liking but there are some diamonds on it as well. Notably the following tracks.
“He got game”
“House of the rising son”
“Resurrection”
“What you need is Jesus”

I have to get around to watching the movie some time as well.

5/10

I really liked the lyrics for “What you need is Jesus” so they’re given below.

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Went to the Norwegian Hip Hop Awards last night.. frankly I didn’t know what to expect, after all it’s a Norwegian event. But it surpassed my worst expectations. First of all the music sucked. Apart from one group from South Africa all the groups were Norwegian, all of them rapping in their buttugly dialects. The noise was tremendous, I couldn’t make up any of the words and it was just loud. The acoustics of course sucked so it was mostly a matter of noise, in whatever shape or form. It’s funny how people go to concerts, not so much for the music as just for being there, as long as it’s loud, no matter what the source of the noise actually is.

I’ll gladly skip this bs next year.

2/10 for “Black noise”, the rest was utter crap.

It hit me the other day that Hans Zimmer has a considerable list of credits to his name. Only among those I have greatly enjoyed I find these (in no particular order)..

Crimson Tide

The Rock

Con Air

Gladiator

Hannibal

Pearl Harbor

The Last Samurai

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron