DAN CARINS
From Wikipedia: “‘The Message’ has been reused and re-sampled in so many different ways that it would be easy to reduce its legacy to cliché. Music critic Dan Carins described it in a 2008 edition of The Sunday Times: ‘Where it was inarguably innovative, was in slowing the beat right down, and opening up space in the instrumentation – the music isn’t so much hip hop as noirish, nightmarish slow-funk, stifling and claustrophobic, with electro, dub and disco also jostling for room in the genre mix – and thereby letting the lyrics speak loud and clear.’ Not only does the song utilize an ingenious mix of musical genres to great effect, but it also allows the slow and pulsating beat to take a backseat to the stark and haunting lyrical content.”
(September 2016)
