NTZ News

So, this will probably be the only time this happens.

This post isn't really about music. I've been invited to be a contributor to The Backpack Enthusiast, which is (no dick yanking either) one of my fav blogs. So I'm pretty pumped about that. As a matter of fact, I can hold my head a little higher when I'm out doing my business among the drones because of this. Well, that and the fact that my wife plucked my eyebrows today and I just shaved off a two month beard - I keep getting carded for phillies. I feel ten years younger. Seriously.

But the point of all this is that now that I have two blogs to post to I plan on stepping my game up a bit in terms of what I post - So far, I've just been posting based on the pure "Shit, people need to hear this" factor. I still plan on doing that, but some of those things are going to go to the other spot - for example, I've been kicking around the idea of doing a series of posts of classic hip hop albums paired with it's instrumentals, any available acapellas, and original sampled recordings. That's the kind of completeness I expect from the Backpacker. Anybody that knows NTZ knows I'm not really about that on my own. I'll have the whole gig for posterity, but I'll throw one thing at you, take it off the platter two cuts in, then on to the next thing. NTZ is more about those connections. Juxtaposition.

So here at Mixed NTZ I'm going to focus more on the obvious fire stuff that you should already know, but maybe you missed or just slept on. The more obscure stuff is going to get saved - maybe if I have to sit on something for awhile to get all of the stuff to go with it for a Backpack post, I'll post it here. I gets impatient like that sometimes.

Anyone that's coming here looking for punk and hardcore needn't be worried. I don't think I'm about to be invited to Seeeing Red or anything, so all of that will still be posted here. If that is what you're here for, I'm about to go on a spree, starting with the Charles Bronson LP (Which I might have to rip myself - My 10" copy of the lp is grooved out, but it still sounds better than the Discocrappy cd ripped @ 128, which is all I can find floating around online), and moving on to maybe some REALLY obvious stuff that you should have but probably don't (Like the X album "Under The Big Black Sun" or the Germs LP, or, hell, even some Crimpshrine or something[I have alot of work to do]).

And while I'm on this subject of who's coming here and why; I have no idea who you are or that you have been here at all. I have a counter. That's it. I'm not gonna stop doing this for a lack of comments... But. I do enjoy reading and responding to comments. And it bums me out that I have to go to someone else's blog to engage in any kind of spirited conversation about this shit, and then you have a ton of people putting in their two cents, usually anonymously, usually because they don't know if they should be embarrassed about what they're saying or not.