Gold Chains vs The Streets FIGHT!

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go on Topher or whatever yr name is, KICK BRUMMIE ASS!!

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ambrose and ed went to see golden chains last saturday. maybe they'll post?

― gareth, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

golden chains?????

― gareth, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm having a Pinefox: who or what the hell is Gold Chains?

― Tim, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That of course should be "having a Pinefox moment".

― Tim, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1-man mic manipulator from San Francisco who is now part of the kid606 clan.

enormously OTT hip hop attitude but lots and lots of fun.

sort of the hip hop Andrew WK, except fuckin ace.

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Saw him do a set before Kid606. I don't know but it seemed kinda silly.

― nathalie, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold Chains is a bit like your dad doing hip hop but doing it well.

― tom, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Euch it's dismal.

Gold Chains are by far the worst example of pseudo hip-hoppery yet. Their records make me physically angry. That is not fucking mc-ing. Are they taking the piss out of hip hop? Unfortunately not, and even if they were they'd never do it with the grace and style with which Outkast and the like show up rap's foibles.

Then slap the lot over some crappy sub-90s trance synth washes. Euch. What the fuck is the point?

Like there's even any comparison. there's a point to what the Streets do. There is no point in Gold Chains' wankery. It's the ultimate Nathan Barley music - the kind of thing that fin-wearing Shoreditch-dwellers could have a good laugh about over a Hoegaarden "wouldn't it be funny to like have really shit mc-ing over the top of I-F's "space invaders"" but should never actually have got made.

Unfortunately I'm sure it'll be wildly successful. It's no accident that their first UK gig was at the fucking ICA. Euch.

― jacob, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold chains played last year with kid 606 at 93 degrees east ( ok it is near swhoreditch),

i went and expected to hate it being against the vast majority of non hip hop, hip hop, ( big beat, trip hop et al ) but i was very surprised, he's just one guy with a laptop, and a mic, it was good to hear hip hop being used and abused and not taken as fucking seriously as it usually is, and the beats from his laptop where great with or without his "mcing" no synth washes .. , kit was great to see some laptop music being made and performed with such energy.

― jk, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That Gold Chains EP is terrible as hip-hop per se, but awfully entertaining as music. I like the one that borrows the riff from Stereolab's "Crest."

― Douglas, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jacob is missing the point. Gold Chains is all about putting in the effort and pulling it off by sheer enthousiasm. He's not letting his limited MC skills get in the way of putting in a stellar performance and, you know, have fun while doing it. You can listen to him here.

― JoB, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gold chains is some bloke that kid 606 saw playing at a party, then kit clyton signed hin to orthlong musick (sp?). the ep isnt that good, but it was kinda strange. he looked like a middle aged, mid life crisis man, whowould own a shit yellow porshe.he had black jeans, and a tight black t shirt TUCKED INTO them. he was balding and looked like a mole. unfortunately, or not maybe, the sound system at the ICA, which is the biggest pit of hell ever, weas so fucking gash that you couldnt hear what he was rapping about.

bit of a novelty, i guess but not worthy of total hatred like that jacob is feeling, i think.

i hate mike skinners voice so i say its a no score draw.

― ambrose, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold Chains is sort of hard for me to approach. Part of me wants to hate the fuck out of him, acting like he's all street and stuff - kill that irony shit. But is it ironic, I ask myself, and I really can't tell. I mean, I'm sure he likes a lot of hip-hop, and he does have a lot of energy and enthusiasm (well, at least it comes across in his songs). But you know? Sometimes that just doesn't cut the goddamn mustard. It's sort of like Cex, who I actually like a lot, or any of the "IDM hooligans" - sounds great on paper, fits nicely into a cult-studies analysis (being "refreshing" in the face of all this boring minimal techno stuff and beard-stroking IDM - whatever...), but is so flagrantly *entertaining* that it almost becomes not so. "Hey, check this out, I am entertaining the *fuck* out of you right now, dig? I am so flamboyant and rambunctious and *cuh-raaaazy* you just gotta love me! Entertainment is cool!" Yeah, except when it's meta-entertainment - trying too hard to entertain can be a real leaden dud.

― Clarke B., Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

interesting conversation. it is enlightening to read comments about one's self especially when it is peppered with misinformation and in some cases straight up hater rhetoric. no need to hate. if you don't like something then that is fine. everyone is different and it is hard to know where someone is coming from if you don't know them or where they are from. come to san francisco sometime and lets kick back with some ketamine and a pint. i don't own a yellow sportscar or harbor any desire to own one. i have played a bunch of shows in the UK before the ICA thing, which i agree, sounded pretty ghetto. i think i need to start playing behind the club console to better control the system. in terms of being like "look at me i am going to be wild and crazy" i guess that impression can be created but to tell you the truth i just like bumpin jams and dancing instead of chin stroking. i don't purport to be trying to accomplish anything, especially trying to be in the rap game. we have anticon for that. i just like playing out of large sound systems in clubs and trying to dissolve the hate and replace it with love. i love you all. see you in california perhaps. thanks for the breath.

― topher lafata, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm. Given Andrew WK's own peace and love comments elsewhere, maybe Wyndham Earl has a point!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey topher did you see kit freesylin at that party this weekend? then people started kicking him in the back?!!? wtf was that?

― chaki, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes. i am exactly like Andrew WK. we have even fucked the same chicks. i want to be just like him. he taught me everything i know ;-)

as far as seeing kit get kicked..i think kit is in seattle this weekend so if there was some party i wasn't there.

also funney enough, one of my friends last nite came up to me and was like have you heard "the streets"? i guess i will hear him soon. my friend seemed impressed by the baseness of it all.

cu toph

― topher lafata, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Kit DJ at the Baltic in Seattle this past Wednesday.. never has a segue from Elizabeth Clare Prophet to Cyndi Lauper ever sounded so good.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this isn't half as fun as when saul williams found us.

(which probably won't seem half as fun as when kirk degeorgio finds the latest batch of threads including him.)

― jess, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kirk is Lord Custos, Jess, didn't you know?

(How do you spell our once-and-future nemesis' name, by the way? Useful to know.)

― Tom, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he taught me everything i know ;-)

Astonishing! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What, finding someone who likes winky faces as much as you do, Ned? ;)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PRECISELY. Now silence, you young hooligan.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

what happened to gold chains

― badg, Thursday, 1 September 2011 04:58 (fourteen years ago)

gets difficult when stereolab runs out of riffs

― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 September 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

I'd forgotten Gold Chains existed until I saw the thread title, and I think I own that first EP

― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Thursday, 1 September 2011 05:51 (fourteen years ago)

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