{"id":13232,"date":"2017-09-12T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:25:58","slug":"album-review-secret-agent-23-skidoo-mozartistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/12\/album-review-secret-agent-23-skidoo-mozartistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo &#8212; Mozartistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13233\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mozartistic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mozartistic.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mozartistic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mozartistic-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>At its best, kid-hop is a family friendly version of hip-hop, with lyrics full of universal appeal. Because while not everyone can identify with slice-of-life reality depicted in some rap and hip-hop, everyone has been a kid. Many still are.<\/p>\n<p>And at its best, kid-hop takes the form of the music made by sometime Asheville resident Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. He&#8217;s been making uptempo, positive kid-hop for a decade now; his fourth album, 2014&#8217;s <i>The Perfect<\/i> <i>Quirk<\/i> earned a Best Children&#8217;s Album nomination at the annual Grammy Awards. In 2016, his album <i>Infinity Plus One<\/i> was the winner in that category.<\/p>\n<p>But with his latest release, <i>Mozartistic<\/i>, Skidoo may have created his most compelling work yet. An inspired mash-up of symphonic music, beats and rapid-fire rhyming, the <i>Mozartistic<\/i> EP enlists the impressive talent of the Asheville Symphony \u2013 under the direction of conductor Daniel Meyer \u2013 along with pianist Orion Weiss, turntablist Marley Carroll, a rocking rhythm section and the production\/engineering skills of Echo Mountain Recordings&#8217; Julian Dreyer.<\/p>\n<p>The disc&#8217;s five tracks offer up variations on two numbers (the title cut and \u201cSupersonic Symphonic\u201d), plus a thrilling reading of \u201cTurkish March\u201d from Mozart&#8217;s Piano Sonata No. 11. That work is played straight, featuring Weiss and the Symphony; though it&#8217;s sandwiched between the kid-hop tracks, it fits seamlessly and may stealthily introduce younger listeners to classical music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its best, kid-hop is a family friendly version of hip-hop, with lyrics full of universal appeal. Because while not everyone can identify with slice-of-life reality depicted in some rap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,36,49,51,65],"tags":[3155],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childhood-development","category-classical","category-hip-hop","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-secret-agent-23-skidoo","cat-15-id","cat-17-id","cat-36-id","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13234,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions\/13234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}