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"Mainstream Ratchet" also cites, with its pipe organ and near-constant piano arpeggios, Philip Glass’ score for the 1992 horror movie Candyman, a score which found itself sampled (by Lil Jon) and imitated throughout the early part of this century. The soundtrack to that film is daring: while the majority of the film takes place in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago, the soundtrack consists of amplified pipe organs, a music box and a piano, and a choir outlining simple harmonic cycles with increasing intensity.  This technique gives “Mainstream Ratchet” its power: the exposition of a cycle sets up the anticipation not of a chorus, or a bridge, but of an intensification of the same cycle.  You add an element, you take something away, or you insert a digital silence, changing the footprint of the beat.  It’s a slightly different musical economy, but one in which I think we will all be participating in a post-Yeezus landscape.  

nico muhly on 2 chainz