No more Classics?

Whats happening people,

Another LONG post but its something on my mind and I guess if I cant say it on my blog - where am I gonna say it?? There IS a song at the end of the rainbow though - enjoy!

So recently, I picked up Kanyes new album, Ndubz album, and Wretch 32s album (soon and eager to pick up Bashys!) all are excellent in there own ways but I dont think id put any of them down as CLASSIC albums like id put say a Michael Jackson "Off the Wall" or a Jay z "The Blueprint" or Raekwons "Only built for cuban linx". It got me thinking..."WHY NOT THOUGH? Has the era of classic albums faded? When was the last time you got an album - a new album that is, and BATTERED it and played it over and over for a couple months?" - for me its been a long time...but...why?

My conclusion is that first of all, hiphop is not dead - its not the quality of the music - people are still making amazing, thought provoking, reflective,emotional
music (in between all that click snap business") as Ive heard on the recent albums ive got. I blame Technology - two aspects ;
1. The Internet and Mp3s
2. The "Skip" function.

1. Mp3s.

I am THE original downloader - straight - ill admit it. Im an eager beaver and I wan hear things as quick as possible and so I download - DONT WORRY THOUGH - artists I like and especially alot of Uk artists, I WILL and DO go and buy the album after and just leave it jammin in my bedroom in the shrinkwrap (Cds are played (played out that is...seeing as cds can actually be played..) anyway!) - i got my ipod in the car - the purchase is purely for support - kanye understands this the most which is why he leaked like half his album as a free download and still has the number 1 album out - people including myself WILL buy regardless of downloading).

Ive been downloading from college - from around 1999 - I had 115kbps broadband with homechoice before most people had internet. But even with my relatively fast connection for those days, I had to leave my computer on overnight to get an 1 album which would take around 12 hours to download so when I got it, even for free, I would be appreciative of the time it took to get and listen to the WHOLE thing - however, I wouldnt appreciate it as much as an album that I went out and paid for.

Now though - people get 2mb broadband for FREE with they sky subscription and 10mb connections for change - every tom dick and susan knows how to use limewire at least (more advanced with torrents etc) and so you can get the song you saw in the hmv advert on the TV probably before xfactor comes back on - its ridiculous! (Im not complaining as an artist about sales - like i said, people will still buy - this is my observation though). And so the value you put on songs isnt the same as when you had to save your weekly money to go buy that single on TAPE cassette back in the day. PLUS the sheer volume of songs that everyone has these days means that you will move onto something else quite quickly, easily and for FREE!! songs/albums havent got the chance to be classic because your itunes library expands on a day to day basis. 20000 songs on something that can fit in your pocket!?!?!? surely the workings of a witch or wizard of somesort!

2. The "Skip" function.

With the invention of cds, we have been able to tap that little button and "skip" a track. You buy an album, put it in...hear something you dont like straight away....SKIP...another one....SKIP!!! With tapes (that you had to BUY) you couldnt skip so easily so you were forced to take the album in - listen to the whole thing - fwd and rwd is long on tapes and so you could sit down and listen to the entire tape and take in the album properly because as well as you aint getting another tape for a couple weeks/Internet, Mp3s, and Skip...or a lack thereof - THATS what i reckon made albums classic.

How many times have you slept on a song on an album you had - skipped past it even, then saw the video for it and realised the song is actually DECENT, went back and saw it jammin on that album you had there all along - its because you CANT SKIP music videos you were able to take the song in!!!

How many times have you DOWNLOADED an album - yes you! thought it was actually quite good, in fact very good...but then forgot about it quite quickly because you downloaded something new the next week.

I guess we need to try appreciate albums more and take time with them - I know I do. There are one or two exceptions that ill recognise - you can argue that "The Blueprint" was out in a cd skip function era - downloading wasnt so prominent but still around - also Robin Thickes "Evolution of robin thicke" I reckon is a classic which came out in the download era - one or two exceptions but maybe because ive paid more attention to them like I should to all albums...

I feel like putting out a 1 track album. Not one song...but one 60 minute track - you know like those mix cds you cant skip tracks with - then you'll be FORCED to listen to it all (put evil laugh here)...or not at all...could be quite annoying though - when you have your favourites and have to hold your finger down on the button till 45 minutes in! lol.

Anyway...Ive said FAAAR too much - just some food for thought...

I touch on this issue in a song I did an while back (more on the second verse: "He got gigabytes/so he aint listen right...)

Incisive : Coming Up



'Cisive

P.s 24 is back - New season! Jack Bauer is a badman (well he actually catches badmen but...is a badman in a michael jackson bad sorta way...*sigh...u know what i mean!!) :-)

99.2 fm on your Radioactive dial!

Ok so this isnt "music" related directly. More just regular life stuff...enjoy...

So my sister had to travel abroad for a week and has left me with her 13 yr old son,my nephew to look after. They live in norfolk so instead of a 5 minute drive to work,I now actually have to wake up very early to avoid the traffic on the a40 which is NUTS during rush hour.

So I wake up this EARLY morning - even the early birds are still sleeping and that...I get ready, make sure my nephew is ready for school then set down the a40 to work.

Im driving, listening to my tunes (yes, tunes by incisive - vanity!!) - all rapping along like they aint my tunes!! Eventually I get into a spot of traffic...

I look ahead, and there is a white transit van in front of me. Why does this regular, run of the mill ford transit van have a big RADIOACTIVE sticker on the back!!!?!?! What radioactive waste is in the back of this regular van?!!? dont they have reinforced vans with special compartments to carry this stuff round?!?! I felt like I was in the beginning one of those superhero films that you cuss because you are like "yea right, the super radioactive waste was just in a regular van on the roadside" - but LOOK - in front of me on the A40 - its there!!

SO...i turn down the music and think to myself "LONG!". Put my foot down and go to switch lanes. The dude switches lanes too...still in front of me..ok...so I switch back - true we in moving traffic though I cant really put my foot down and get out of radioactive harms way! Plus I can only switch lanes in a gap which Mr Radioactive driver happens to wanna take advantage of so its like we playing british bulldog on the motorway - everytime I try get past, the dude is swinging out his van in front of me! So instead of driving aggressively to overtake the radioactive vehicle, I jam behind him. Soon, we came to a stop in traffic and up closer, I could now see that next to the radioactive sign, was another sign:
"RADSQUAD - in the case of an incident - call us on 0845"...bla bla...

I HAD to take a pic to show ya! (Sorry - Blackberry pic quality isnt all that!)

Naaaa G this was that final destination meets radioactive man business. When I saw that, i put my foot down and blew off - cars all bibin me cause i swerved out but nar fam! I wasnt waiting around for the truck to crash in front of me and turn me into some mutant creature that the "Radsquad" have to hunt down...nar - not me famo!!!

I thought that was nuts though - is that normal?? - You ever seen a radioactive truck rolling on the roadside?!?!

Just thought id share that morning drama with ya!!! I had to take pics!! (Dont worry, i drive automatic!)

Here's the rest of the pics!!

Enjoy ur day!
'Cisive

Looney Tunes!

Quick post.

EXCLUSIVE MP3 from my upcoming mixtape. I didnt really wanna post this so im going to take it down in 48 hrs.Ive got my reasons for putting it up though.... basically, another well known artist (BASHY!) put up a song on his blog which is basically the same concept - his cd is coming out first so i dont want people to think that I took his idea - so im putting my version that i recorded last week up as a time stamp....i guess its just great minds think alike...

See if you can name all the characters - leave 'em as comments!!!
'Cisive


TIME UP - WAIT FOR THE MIXTAPE!

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO TEASER!

As promised, an exclusive TEASER of my upcoming video...enjoy...remember - this song is available on itunes already. Incisive ft Shax - Release....

After u watch it u watch it, keep reading for an explanation of one or two things...




Incisive ft Shax: Release (Teaser) from Incisive on Vimeo.


A teaser is a teaser!! ;-). Now an explanation...

Alot of people wonder why I gave the song such a funny name - "Release". So ima explain.....

Basically, its about the emotion I was into when I wrote this song:

"Im just getting back to my yard
been on my feet, working WAY too hard
so ima listen to my ba be de boom, ba ba
yea ima listen to my ba be de boom, ba ba, tip-pit-tip-pit-ti-tay"

Thats where I started with this song - with the beat, and that chorus coming to me. And basically, that "Ba be de boom ba ba" represents music that I listen to....if you ask me how a certain song goes and I only know the beat and not the words, Ima replicate maybe the sound of the bassline, or the drums - "ba be de boom...."

So in the chorus, im saying, i been working all day, i just got home, ima sit down, listen to, and get lost in my music so that all that stress, and rushing round from a hard days work...I can just.....RELEASE...

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'Cisive

Wow

A time for change is here.....

...history in the making...

Amazing...

Thats all ill say on that...

BACK TO THE BLOG....KEEP READING...

Off Hiatus from these haters!

Ok ok forgive me,

its been near a month since I last posted a blog...wow!! This may be a long one! Keep reading - Ive got some goodies later in this post!!

...in fact...im doing a is a WORLD EXCLUSIVE preview of my video which is coming out this year (god willing) in my next post...but read this first!!

Im sorry - gone through one or two bits but im good now - all is well and im back. Couple people been messaging me on the facebook or email to see "whats going on with u (me)" so I gotta say I appreciate every whos missed me!!

Its been soo long I dont even know where to begin - alot happens in a month!!! errr....ok...This past month, ive reevaluated and changed the plan so Im putting out a "Mixtape" (I hate that term but sometimes but...yea a mixtape) before the end of the year godwilling. The reason I dont like the term "Mixtape" is because most of the time these days, its a cop out term for a lazy album - an album with no expectation, no structure, no theme,no need for mastering or any sort of quality to the mix of the songs, and no original beats...

My mixtape (I hope) will be expected to be good, have some sort of structure, a loose theme, good quality mixes and (mostly) original beats - I think im not going to "finish" it intentionally, just to separate it from the album - but yea, ive got enough tracks to put a mixtape of original material out quite easily...so yea - thats the plan.

It will hopefully be fully packaged, distributed and will be lead by my upcoming "Release" video - so for all intents and purposes, some may call it an album...but ill cop out with the rest of them, get expectation off my back and call it a "Refined Mixtape" - hopefully in the same category as Sways first mixtape - or Bashys Chupa Chups mixtapes - both distributed widely...but still mixtapes... so yea.

I'll also have the album im doing with TE1 completed by the end of the year as well and will put that out early next year. Then comes my album next summer...so thats the new plan - putting it in writing and online means I gotta stick to it!


So to start with, last week ive sent out a double A side single which features two tracks that will be on the mixtape - Nothing Compares and In-Ci-Sive - both Produced by TE1. In-Ci-Sive is new so take a listen to that - Ive posted nothing compares before but ill put them both up here...let me know what u think!





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P.S - Come back soon - got an EXCLUSIVE video for ya in the next 48 hours - keep checking back!