11/6/07 - no radiohypno this week…BUT….
by hypno on November 6th, 2007
as regular listeners know, i usually prepare the music found here on radiohypno for your listening pleasure. well, for the first time (and hopefully not the last), i want to use this site to point out some music outside this site that is very well worth your attention…so much so that i will forego the standard weekly show and insist that you download this:
Saul Williams - THE INEVITABLE RISE AND LIBERATION OF NIGGYTARDUST!
performed by Saul Williams (musician/poet/actor), produced by Trent Reznor, mixed by Alan Moulder…the album is great musically, and hearing a voice other than Reznor against what is clearly his musical direction is interesting and challenging.
additionally, i want the release to be successful for this artist and any that come after him. self-supported, self-sustaining, self-directed music artists have never had more opportunity to succeed and make a living from their art inside or outside the “mainstream” than they do at this very moment. by self-releasing and distributing this work using the same model that a “superstar act” like Radiohead has done recently, this is a chance to prove that this model can work for artists who haven’t had the benefit of 10+ years of major-label distribution and marketing dollars behind them.*
please, support this artist, and be a part of the changing of the guard in the music industry.
http://www.niggytartust.com
* - yes, i know, having Trent Reznor as your producer/marketing dept. doesn’t exaclty qualify you for “starving artist” status, but still…this is NOT the same thing as a Nine Inch Nails release. the $5 is worth it to hear saul’s cover of “sunday bloody sunday” alone.