Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - 'Brain' (2007)

[antiemo666777]

Softest punchiest kick drum ever

[superkulmedkniv25]

Calling Steve Reid anything else than an amazing drummer is rediculous. He's not playing by the book here, and for someone who have no ability to appreciate music on non - academic terms, he might sound like an amateur in this performance. BUT, I can assure you that Steve Reid COULD play "the right way" if he wanted to, but after a while, that shit gets boring. The fact that Reid didn't give a fuck about stuck up nitwits like Mr. Dickhead here is part of what makes him a legend.

[YesImADickhead]

@superkulmedkniv25 im not talkng about the 'right way' at all man. i agree that music shudnt always be played 'the right way' amen to that dude thats how music evolves.. but yeh he just didnt strike me as incredible at free jazz drumming in this performance. sorry buddy but i have seen waaay more better free jazz drummers.

[pmurphybham]

@YesImADickhead Steve Reid plays a style of drumming that focuses on free expression and interrupting/defying the expectations of the listener. Free Jazz itself is not a style that I'm a fan of when it comes to Jazz as a whole, but the drumming is really difficult to accomplish. It's less of a technical endeavor than an intuitive and contrary style that's supposed to make you think about how the music is made and get more involved in it.

[YesImADickhead]

ok i want to like it but i can't get my head around if the drummer is meant to sound like hes kinda bad at drumming or if he is actually kinda bad at drumming :/

[betterthanfew]

@YesImADickhead The drummer isn't bad, nor is it meant to sound like he's bad. This is a rather difficult style of drumming to accomplish, and is in the vein of free jazz drummers (something Steve Reid was a part of).

[peterbriers]

@YesImADickhead Steve Reid was an American jazz drummer who played with a wide range of artists including Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Fela Kuti and Sun Ra, and as a session drummer for Motown.

Yes, you are a dickhead. :p

[YesImADickhead]

@peterbriers who you play with doesnt make you good asshole. ive played with drummers that can dick on this guys face in more than just jazz alone. doesnt mean im the king of drumming now does it? all im saying is, ive seen kids at my school play drums like this (kinda bad style) and they get told they are bad. i dont know why this guy gets told hes amazing when he does the same as them. maybe my schools full of "amazing musicians".. no its not.

[peterbriers]

@YesImADickhead Ssshh, Dickhead. shhhh... *puts finger on lips*

[YesImADickhead]

@peterbriers ahhh what a shame! just because you can't come back to me doesnt mean you have to use a childish comment...ive heard that comeback so many times before from all the other cunts ive put in their place.... and there i was thinking you were some form of interlectual. just another youtube douchebag that thinks he can insult sumbody once and then when he gets owned, tries to act alll mature with a shitty smart arsed comment on his next reply... pathetic!

[peterbriers]

@YesImADickhead "interlectual" lol

[YesImADickhead]

@peterbriers oh wait.... and type in steve reid on wikipedia and you literally copied and pasted the first 3 sentences!! hahahahha what a fucking moronic idiot. i was actually impressed at first that u might have known that but now your just a wikipedia copier it means you have the intelligence span of a peice of shit.... CAUGHT OUT MOTHERFUCKA

[giacobbeify]

RIP steve

[consol6]

that is 1 free piece of music!!!!, what a duo, RIP

[Encrust]

This is as mashed as fuck. Sorry, I'm totally agreeing with plenty of you chaps on here but I'm also buzzing a fair amount of tit too and I'm unable to describe myself any better. Hence why this is mashed as fuck.

[Munchy365]

Are those samples from Clouding I hear at 4:50?

[YAYOISUIKA]

was this recorded in athens? i was there!! :D great gig

[shutupfuckyou]

i like this

[cacaolover1]

this sounds like a old fax machine with someone playing drums along side it

[sucramnipp]

@cacaolover1 nah. try again.

[franknwalters]

this is really great ! ... but , everytime l hear it i have more and more the certainty that Steve Reid and Amon Tobin would be a perfect fit ...

just listen to amon tobin's "get your snack on" ...

[aadambeker]

@franknwalters Wow. It would be great. Never tought about it. It's just sad that Amon Tobin rarely do colobrations.

[jemtman]

RIP Steve

[Didgebaba]

I only heard his music after hearing he had left the planet. The man was a genius. I have already ordered from Amazon. I have some work to do....

[jbertsch]

This is absolutely OFF THE HOOK. I could listen to this all day.

RIP Steve Reid.

[zakcattack]

I have drummed for years and been frustrated with the lack of soul in modern electronic music's rhythms. I thought to myself, "Man I could play a live beat waaay cooler than the one they got on this song, if only a DJ would team up with a good drummer." Prayers answered

[bbok12]

post-dnb!

[miznarik]

LOOOOOL ,

I approve.

[gazziboy69]

This is f-ing brilliant!

[fmgest]

The first 2 minutes are absolutely great!!

[Intersteve]

thank god i lwasnt there ....electro babble drum thrashing hogwash..at my school when I was 16 we had jimi hendrick and the rest ..where is your music kids? ..sold out to 'festivals'..we got arrested for talking about 'rollong stones' and expelled for growing our hair..you straights are so damned thin and sad..rock the fuckers .....

[patrickedmund]

poo off loser

[aboxofjosh]

You are no different than those who disapproved of your music when it came around. Thankfully it's not up to you types, or music would never evolve.

[voxefex]

You're a hippie bitch

[granap]

this is just too god. has to be a joke right? you're a funny guy

[personpitch5767]

steve reid is from you're generation...

[jonread12]

jimi 'hendrick' played festivals

[johncmolyneux]

Idiotic prick. Don't come back, cos I won't bite. You aren't worth it.

[daraven67]

was there for the most entertaining gig of the festival,,,,, those guys have serious talent ,,,, rock on ,,, class act ,, so creative

[inamorty]

they kicked ass on sunday. shame the encore never happened but was glad not to have gotten too lost in my drunken haze. excellent set altogether..

[eressubnormal]

Joder que puto dolor de cabeza me a dado esto, y yo poniendo ladrillos pa ganarme el pan, y ver que haciendo el mongolo hay gente que se forra.... que asco de mundo..

[duder215]

gracias a tu manera de pensar no advanzas en este mundo....

[amplifysoul]

doooooope

[faustain]

I want me to be this

[tgproduction]

four tet my brother

[interpolluter29]

Fans are going to be confused to death of what the music is trying to do. But I guess there is no questioning the motive of two people who created their best music on their solitary moments.

[asago]

man i love those guys <3