Ancienne Belgique

Attention: this is not a concert but an album listening session!Registration is obligatory and can be organised via reservationshuis23@abconcerts.be Please mention ‘Public Enemy’ in the su...

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Attention: this is not a concert but an album listening session!

Registration is obligatory and can be organised via reservationshuis23@abconcerts.be Please mention ‘Public Enemy’ in the subject line. Also clearly state the number of persons with whom you will be attending.
Please note: there is a maximum capacity of 50 people. So be quick.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back – Public Enemy

The 2nd album by New York's hip-hop collective was immediately spot on.
Due to the unorthodox production techniques of The Bomb Squad and Chuck D & Flavor Flav's controversial lyrics, the album quickly received a whole lot of attention and good reactions from press and public. This translated itself into commercial success too and, a year later, more than 1 million copies had already been sold.
David Fricke of The Rolling Stone described the album as ‘A molotov cocktail of nuclear scratching, gnarly minimalist electronics and revolution rhyme ‘.

The album is considered to be one of the most influential ever made and with singles like ‘Bring The Noise’, ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ or ‘Black Steel in The Hour of Chaos’ it's inevitable that it be included in the 33 1/3 Classic Albums Listening Session.

The session will be introduced in Dutch by Pascal Garnier aka Krewcial.
 
33 1/3 – Classic Album Listening Sessions
The idea behind Huis 33 1/3 is as simple as can be: music lovers gathering to listen to a 'classic' album - uninterrupted and in the most ideal circumstances possible (technically, surroundings,..) - always introduced by an adept of the album in question.

The intention of this new series is to offer an alternative to the manner in which the musical experience has evolved over recent years. By listening to strongly compressed MP3s, YouTube films, or to sites like Spotify, with small earphones or via laptop speakers we miss out on essential elements of the music, often without realising it.

Many albums were created as an artwork in themselves and so deserve to be listened to in their entirety. A great deal of attention was often paid to obtaining the best possible sound quality, the artwork, the order of the songs, the mood of the songs and the ‘story’ the artist wanted to involve the listener in. In many cases, no effort was spared to record the albums in the best studios, in order to make use of the best sounding mixing tables, microphones, pre-amps, compressors, reverbs,  etc... All of this is completely destroyed in a few mouse-clicks.

During the Huis 33 1/3 sessions we will listen to an album in its entirety – without interruption and with the best possible technical means – and in that way attempt to experience the album in the way originally intended when it was recorded, mastered and released.