Stax recordings were known for their raw, down-home soulfulness, a striking contrast to the urbane slickness of Stax's friendly rival, Motown.
It's a spoken-word song, raw, stripped down, a Southern-gothic Leonard Cohen.
I put my face inches from his face palette-knifed nearly raw, scraped down to whatever it is that denies flesh yet is flesh but whatever it is which still so exalts flesh, even flesh scraped nearly raw, eludes me.
The fact that cheap water transport on the Rhine helped to keep prices of raw materials down was the main reason the river became a major axis of industrial production: one-fifth of the world's chemical industries are now manufacturing along the Rhine.
DOOM was streamlined, stripped raw, right down to the very base appeal of the FPS genre: point that gun, kill that thing, move on.
But perhaps, before releasing another white-label EP of "raw," "stripped down," "primal," "rough," "gritty" "jackin' traxxx" inspired by the "ghetto house stylings" of Dance Mania and so forth, they should remember that the culture they're co-opting isn't theirs, and that to suggest otherwise is to undermine the very thing they're trying to celebrate.
Open up the strip again and fold the raw edges down, as shown in the photo, fold back in half again.
It doesn't, she says, mean that Gossip will never make a very raw, stripped-down record again.
That's the sense you get from Industry Bar, a 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-footcember and aims to translate the raw, stripped-down allure of Bergayin, thangoutndary Berlin megaclub, inthat smaller, Gaga-friendly package.
At 13, his console-created tunes - raw, stripped-down versions of the dark UK garage made by producers such as Benny Ill and El-B - were being picked up by Hatcha, a DJ and producer who worked at Big Apple.
