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LG RC389H menu music
LG
2002
9.6 out of a possible ten pitchforks BEST NEW HOUSEHOLD PRODUCT
The LG RC389H is a quality household unit. It not only acts as a VCR and a DVD player, it is also stylishly designed, space efficient and smells nice when new.
The unit in my house broke a long time go, a faulty VHS is stuck in the video player and thanks to a well meaning child, the DVD compartment has been filled with cashew nuts. This would normally spell the end for most units but we have kept the multi- task player despite the cashew stuffing incident being roughly around 3 years ago now. The reason? As always, the music.
On his latest full length Take Care, Canadian rapper Drake claims on the most expansive song of the album accompanied by Rick Ross that:
”Fuck you all, I claim that whenever
I change rap forever, the game back together, yup
YM, I remain that forever “
The music that plays front he LG unit accompanied by a blue screen with the LG logo blazed across your television screen could easily make the same claim (except without being confined to one genre). Although the style of music is more aligned with ambient sound artists such as Oneothrix Point Never and Tim Hecker and even draws comparisons to obscure drone artists such as Mind Over Mirrors, the ambition is strangely in line with that of Drake or even Kanye. The people who think they are the next MJ - who will change music forever. It’s an ambitious task considering the piece is from a genre that is rarely listened to very long before a DVD is inserted, but get back to me in 5 years time when Pitchfork is praising the genre of DVD music for its brash creativity. This will be the bench mark. It is to DVD player music what Loveless is to shoegaze, what MBDTF is to rap of what the Arcade Fires Funeral is to indie rock.
Of course the obvious precedent for this piece of music is the Playstation 2’s menu music, a sonic blast that encapsulates the very essence of the universe, the very stuff we’re made of, and blasts it across your living room before fading into obscurity. Where that piece of music faltered however, was in the loops. Some one from LG has clearing been listening to Swedish techno artist and “King of Loops” The Field. Yes. that’s what you would think if this player hadn’t been around for almost 9 years now and the Field released his masterpiece “Looping State of Mind” this year. The loops are so flawless and ahead of their time, in the days where this machine worked, you could daily leave the menu music looping over and over whilst you continued making out hours after the movie had finished.
I think during its working years the DVD player was pretty good. Most people don’t have any use for a VHS player anymore but that’s ok. The music alone is worth purchasing one of these units although they may be very very hard to find. If you can get your hands on one, I emplor you to purchase it, plug it in, forget inserting anything, roll a big one, relax and enjoy.
To leave you with some words from Drake ” A Lot of Niggas came up off a style I made up, but if all I hear is me, then who should i be afraid of?.” Well Drake, the LG RC389H.
James Harbard.
James is the head music writer for Esperento Magazine and the editor in chief of jasondillisdead.tumblr.com
He has many months music reviewing experience and reads pitchfork every single day even onweekends when they don’t post anything.
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