Oh that nutty Cex

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I have a slight feeling this album does not sound like its source of artistic inspiration, but feel free to prove me wrong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Cex: he's both a hero and an idiot!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(er because the Iggy rekkid was inspired by the same style of portraiture that was used for the Bowie rekkid and er yeah)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

the song i heard sounds like he wants to be the streets

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the song i heard sounds like he wants to be the streets

Well, he'd fit right at home on ILE, then.

― I Invented Cynicism (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yes, because ile likes the streets, right? haha

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX is the streets, motherfux0rz. And we are watching.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I still got love for ya.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sigh. i'd love to defend my Baltimore brother to the death, but i feel like it's a lost cause around here, or anywhere that the discourse begins with the phrase "that nutty Cex". the odd-numbered tracks on the first half of Being Ridden are fucking killer, though.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Fret not, Al, I actually like Cex myself, have a couple of albums around. But that cover is almost asking for it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

he looks a little like mike skinner in that photo

― robin (robin), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

He looks like a composite of: Mike Skinner, Justin, Ian Curitis. Shame his music doesn't sound like that.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

*zing*, obv.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

lol,thats actually a perfect description cozen...

― robin (robin), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

while we're on the subject of the BR cover art, although I don't really have much interest in listening to the instrumental version of it, i thought the modified cover was kind of novel:

http://www.rjyan.com/images/discog/a8bri.jpg

but then, I got the new Kanye West instrumentals mixtape, which has a similiar thing going on (complete with the intro track of Kanye speaking muffled through the tape and then ripping it off):

http://www.mixtapekings.com/images/hiphop/ferris_bueller_plain_plat-behind_the_beats-170.jpg

maybe this is a cliche idea that's been done a hundred times and i just never saw it before, but it strikes me as a funny coincidence, especially because they're probably my 2 favorite people making music right now.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the song they ar eplaying ont he college station here sounds like a huge improvement over 'tall, dark and handcuffed' which even al has to admit was awful. i love role model and most of oops...

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

TD&H had some missteps, but don't sleep on the tracks w/ Height, and a few others (Cuts, Bad Acne, Ghost Rider)...it's kind of a shame that a lot of people seem to hate on that record for the fun parts...it's really only the more dramatic, BR-ish stuff on Handcuffed that sucks. i like the more straight-up rap stuff on Being Ridden, but some of it sinks a little too far into Anticon territory for me.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 11 May 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

cex sux

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 12 May 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

aha! but where, that's the question.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 12 May 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

just took this off after three listens. gah, what crap

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 May 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(fuck, I mean three songs)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 May 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://citypaper.com/music/review.asp?rid=12311

― chaki, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. That actually sounds pretty interesting. (Forgive me... "intersting").

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, not paid any attention to Cex for ages but just ordered a tape on the strength of that description

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting. I was wondering what exactly that tape was about, based on the cryptic description on his website a while back:

http://blumpy.org/rjyan/?page=archive (entry dated 9/14/2007)

Rjyan's put out seemingly a dozen cassette-only releases in the last couple years that I see in True Vine now and then, but I haven't really felt compelled to keep up with them (especially ones that are some kind of meta joke on an artist I've never listened to like Girl Talk), I got the Sand Cats tape recently but still haven't listened to it. That CD Sketchi that he put out earlier in the year was alright, though.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, I had just figured out that a "mixtape" can now be a CD, but this is an actual tape?

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I love that the section is called "Know Your Product" but they don't know that Cex and Girl Talk have been best buddies for like a decade.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

hey, I write for that section and know Cex's work pretty well, but wasn't aware of any connection between them besides that they're both tight with Dan Deacon. but way to zing a generic review column name!

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Alex that's a fair zing and you know it

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://stljfl.org/images/Football_Referee.jpg

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

it all seems pretty lame

― chaki, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

i agree, whatever the intent I don't much see the point in it. but then I think shit like Girl Talk is pretty lame to begin with.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

thank god cex has saved the dangerous blackness of rap from girl talk

― and what, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

LOL "cex"

― admrl, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

are these dudes both contenders for the next dj shadow

― deej, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno, check your back issues of URB for the monthly "Next DJ Shadow" feature

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/08/25/PH2005082502052.jpg

― am0n, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

LOL

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― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

last time i saw cex it was with a live band and it was terrible

― chaki, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

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― and what, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

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