Michael Jackson

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Michael Jackson eh? Everyone in the world has commented on it so I’m sure there’s not much more I can add. Just a bit weird though innit? I mean, on the one hand you’ve got an incredible singing talent, amazing entertainer, dancer etc. I’ve got some acapellas of him singing ABC and others, and his voice is amazing. Just AMAZING. The amount of emotion he gets out of a line for someone so young. So there’s that, and no-one can take that away or argue with it.

On the other hand, though, things get a little complicated. I know there was no guilty verdict on either of the two cases that were brought to court. But look at it like this. If a 50 year old guy, who lives on his own in North Manchester were to:

Set up a fairground in his back garden
Invite only young boys to come over for a sleepover, whilst buying their parents expensive gifts
Give them wine in a can and call it ‘Jesus Juice’
Have a secret hidden room protected by video cameras
Happily admit to sleeping with boys. (Just sleeping mind)

…and then one of the kids could accurately describe his cock and balls…

his house would be burnt down very quickly. I’m just saying, is all. Yet I wandered around the market the other day and virtually every stall is playing his music. So why is that then?

End of the day, you’re left with the music, and I personally don’t think that anything he’s done, or even been accused of, should/would/could tarnish that for the listener. Music doesn’t care who wrote it, or performed it. I’m not going to run a background check on every artist I listen to, nor am I going to stop appreciating a record because the person who made it did something bad (no pun intended) years later. So let’s just agree that everything from Bad backwards was good and we like it, and the rest of it fairly crap, and he was weird. And he didn’t invent the moonwalk either – I’ll come back to this in another post, possibly.

Here’s one of my favourite MJ remixes by Shinehead. There’s a great DnB version of this too somewhere or other.

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• Posted on Jul 6th, 2009

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  • Keller
    I miss you Michael ..so much...Rest in peace...you will live forever and your music will live in our hearts . I love you Michael. Trianz Keller
  • Also, im sure that along with all the stuff that been written, there is a million MJ mixes out there doing the rounds...well just start at the top. Im pointing you in the direction of Qool DJ Marv. Head to his podcast pages and grab yourselves 2 and a half hours of magic MJ music chopped down into 5 half hour(ish) mixes. http://djqoolmarvsounds.podomatic.com/

    Minding Michael : A Qool DJ Marv Recollection Recorded Live


    "The unique circumstances that led to this 1st record to last celebration of MJ are the reasons why I will never be able to replicate this set. Jazz minded, I improvise every set and my own feelings and experiences do influence much of the vibe that I present. I learned about MJ while in Motown’s state just before performing at my 1st US based summer festival in Ann Arbor. I’m a shy performer and I never get on the mic, but I stepped up and out and spoke up for MJ.

    Blessed with 48 hours before I’d get my chance to go public with my mix of MJ (actually, not even because I spent all Friday evening at my son’s uncle’s “bye high school/off to Princeton party), I had my mind on Michael. Roughly 75% of these songs, I’ve never played in public. This is my translation of Michael as a fan and DJ, as a boy who grew up with stronger together black family vibes and Black is Beautiful all up in my head, and as a man who still embraces that exuberant idealism by perpetuating it and sustaining it through the magic of the music in the mix. This is one of those ‘can’t remember what I did last night’ sets, although, my first and only glass of red wine didn’t happen until after 3:30am. Dressed in a white shirt, black necktie, black dress slacks, black shoes, & white socks – I was dress to thrill and did so with rhythmic reverence.

    Reverence describes the approach to laying out all of these songs over the course of a late night at Tillman’s. I wanted to be neat in the mix keeping in mind that I wanted most of these songs to play in their entirety. I’m not racing through these songs because I have five hours to work with in a lounge with a plush sound system. The atmosphere and design of Tillman’s wraps around you like a mahogany gold soul blanket. There are many instances where I nab the very last beat or vocal to bridge the song playing with the next up. Suspending my love for the pleasure center pleasing tease of the sonic subtleties of long blends to showcase Michael’s songs, and not so much of my style or technique, I guess that this would be the long form/long attention span tribute approach: blended for relaxed listening and appreciation."

    This mix is in 5 parts. I gave them titles:

    Minding Michael Part One: A Good Time
    Minding Michael Part Two: Dreamer
    Minding Michael Part Three: Grab Your Belt Buckle/Music’s Taking Over
    Minding Michael Part Four: Stick with Us and We’ll Show You How to Smile
    Minding Michael Part Five: The Angels
  • Kids are horny you are correct. Lets get some.

    I read the sub text on this post. Its quite subtle but I get it
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