it is all going to come together well enough / hip-hop begins (sun, moon and stars)

11th august 1870 kilvert;

'the weather has become intensely hot again. there are such quantities of apricots this year and they all ripen so fast together that there is no knowing what to do with them.' 

11th august 1914 kafka;

'I imagine I have remained in paris, walk through it arm in arm with my uncle, pressed close to his side.'

11th august 2023 horsemouth;

yesterday went off ok (in the end). ok horsemouth speaks too soon (but he generally feels it like it is all going to come together well enough).  last night a phonecall from his brother - they are going to have to time things to make sure there is enough time for people to speak. 

all  this horsemouth wrote last night. kafka is beginning to make progress with his writing. soon he will write his shorter and lesser known works. kilvert will soon enough be back in clyro. 

'at one back-to-school party on august 11, 1973, DJ kool herc, a jamaican american DJ, spun hard funk tracks by singers like james brown. then, he did something a little different: he mixed drum breaks from different songs, creating the syncopated beats that would become the bedrock of hip hop....'

so today is the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop (allegedly). 

'they tell me hip-hop is 50 years old. to me, it’s older than the sun, moon and stars.' - un-named member of stetsasonic. 

horsemouth had stetsasonic's  june 1988 album in full gear, he got it at the same time he got EPMD's strictly business and added it to his copy of eric b and rakim's paid in full. he also had lots of cassette tapes (compilations done by friends) and a push-button mixtape done by rob (of rob and luna fame). 

it was a period of frantic innovation driven in part by technological advances (such as cassette tape), re-purposings of existing technologies (records), material poverty and political frustration. 

look how quickly it moves - by 1989 meat beat manifesto had recorded radio babylon and drum and bass was effectively born.   

today horsemouth has a meeting of the decarbonisation consortium to go to (on zoom) and he has some tasks related to his dad's funeral. above all he must get on and check the timings, scan some photos, write a eulogy etc.