Montgomery
Word has beats, sure, but there are also some audio clips within here- whether
spoken or sung- that are just chopped up and screwed. It
reminds me of a trippy Johnny Cash and in some ways if you told me this was one
of Cash’s later recordings when he was still on drugs I’d believe you even
though I feel like he got clean in his later years.
I’m
sure that experimental hip hop has been tossed around before, but this is
something along those lines for sure.
It’s pretty heavy on the experimental part though. There is one story in here about how this
guy is walking around with a bag full of batteries for his boom box and some of
the batteries still are good but they all aren’t. That makes me think that this cassette is
the type of music made for boom boxes and that pleases me.
What
sticks out most in my mind’s eye about “Semi Like” though is that it is a
virtual patchwork of sounds to create some form of what I imagine to be tape
manipulation but is probably just a lot of sampling and layering in reality.
I can’t
really explain this any other way, but do you remember the scene in “Fight Club”
when Tyler Durden explains how he cuts up the film reel at the movie theater
and splices in the inappropriate pictures to mess with the viewers expecting a
certain type of clean movie?
To me,
I feel like Montgomery Word took certain pieces of actual tapes, sewed them
together somehow (I don’t want to say taped them together because that’d be
repetitive, but you get the idea of how you’d blend them together… mold them
together? ) and then made this sort of creation. It’s like taking pictures from magazines and
gluing them to poster board for a collage, only with pieces of cassettes and
when you hook them together, spool them back up and play them this sound comes
out.
I can
definitely dig it, as this is both original and creative. It sounds similar enough to some of that hip
hop out there that has instrumental aspects to it on the cassettes, yet also
the noise side of things, but it mixes them and has its own appeal so, yes,
this could just be genius.
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