May 09, 2006
Music To Code By
There are those who have said that "rap music" is an oxymoron. Not me. But then I'm also a big fan of The Trailer Park Troubadours and Junior Brown.
Still you can't help but relate to Algorhythms, the debut album from the self-proclaimed world's great computer science gangsta rapper--MC Plus+.
According to the CD's promotional material "this 11 track debut album contains the crystallized essence of Computer Science gangsta rap. Many are already heralding this work as the defining musical contribution to this fast growing genre." Would-be music critics (and technology writers) add that MC Plus+'s "innovation blends the world of PhD candidate in computer science with the rough and raunchy world of hard-core rap. The result is a sweetly groovin', code-rich, sometimes very non-PC music genre known as CS Gangsta Rap." Well, I don't know that I'd go that far, but it is entertaining.
In truth, MC Plus+ is Armand Navabi and Dan Maynes-Aminzade, two computer science students who went to Purdue and Stanford, respectively.
Algorhythms is made up of songs such as:
Okay, time for a break. I think I'll go back to a little Al Stevens. Al, a Dr. Dobb's senior contributing editor and long-time C programming columnist, has just released "Alone Together", his latest jazz CD which features him playing all the instruments in various combo configurations from piano and bass to three horns and rhythm. And you thought C programming was hard.
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