Vinyl Vriday/Operation: Enduring Propaganda

If you are anti-political, skip this part. Sometimes when i sit at the keyboard my fingers get to typin'
and like a million monkeys at a million keyboards, something profound comes out.
The last time we did our thing at St. Jack's, war was merely a threat. It went from being inevitable, to
a possibility to a full scale invasion. The terrorist alert has been upped to orange again and our vocabulary is expanding in the wake of war: ("mud rain" and "embedded journalist" comes to mind). Here on the homefront we are torn between "supporting the troops" and "opposing the war." As the psy-war/psy-ops propaganda comes at us from all sides (Fox News, CNN, BBC, Al Jazzera, et al) we debate the role of our military; Liberators or Invaders? In the end, the labels we hang on "ourselves" will be as liquid as the historians who document this era in history. Depite the most optimistic prognostications of the White House Warlords, nothing is for certain. I was reminded of the prophecy
that predicted that a small army will vanquish larger more powerful invader, but i thought that was

Afghanistan vs. the USSR, but maybe that wasn't the only example.

Vinyl Vriday/Operation: Enduring Propaganda

If you are anti-political, skip this part. Sometimes when i sit at the keyboard my fingers get to typin'

and like a million monkeys at a million keyboards, something profound comes out.

The last time we did our thing at St. Jack's, war was merely a threat. It went from being inevitable, to

a possibility to a full scale invasion. The terrorist alert has been upped to orange again and our

vocabulary is expanding in the wake of war: ("mud rain" and "embedded journalist" comes to mind). Here

on the homefront we are torn between "supporting the troops" and "opposing the war." As the

psy-war/psy-ops propaganda comes at us from all sides (Fox News, CNN, BBC, Al Jazzera, et al) we debate

the role of our military; Liberators or Invaders? In the end, the labels we hang on "ourselves" will be

as liquid as the historians who document this era in history. Depite the most optimistic

prognostications of the White House Warlords, nothing is for certain. I was reminded of the prophecy

that predicted that a small army will vanquish larger more powerful invader, but i thought that was

Afghanistan vs. the USSR, but maybe that wasn't the only example.

Les Nubians

"Temperature Rising" (Omtown)

A1: Gabriel Rene Mix

A2: Album Version

A3: Gabriel Rene Instrumental

B1: Macka-Flip Mix

B2: Macka-Flip Instrumental

B3: A Capella

From Princess Nubiennes to Ghetto Superstars, the Afro-French sisters enter the road too often

traveled with their 12 inch release, "Temperature Rising." Oy! Is it gettin' hot in here, or what? Les

Nubians, whose album debut was a Zap Mama meets Sade ocean of silk melodious harmony, have employed

Gabriel Rene (Soulstice, Aquanote) to [Nep]-tune this track. If you've ever heard Rene's Aquanote work

you'd cringe at the basicness of this track. Talib Kwele is brought in to give the track crossover

appeal while la soeurs harmonize in redundant refrains aimed toward FM rotation and a summertime top 20.

The sultry sibs will no doubt pull it off on an audience used to derivitive derivitiveness. Like

Ashanti, who provides vocal breaks to hip-hop tracks... or are those rap breaks on R&B tracks?

"Temperatures Rising" effectively takes Les Nubians from Iman to J-Low.