SLEEPY BRAIN: 8.BLISS -- AUDITORY FILMS FOR THE BLIND (tags)
Sk8er/filmmaker/spoken word artist 8.bliss is to hip hop what Jonathan Richman was to rock n roll. On A Train of Events, his debut album, Bliss raps with his dad and splendidly evokes Wagnerian poetics.
SLEEPY BRAIN: Vanilla Primitive (tags)
The piece is "Vanilla Primitive" and it's another example of Braithwaite's unique "dub literature": cut-and-paste prose drenched in feedback and echo. Take the linguistic jouissance and near-future edginess of Anthony Burgess and Jack Womack, then splice that gene with hip hop verse and rhythm and you'll have something approximating Braithwaite's style.