WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE event & party 1 — SPRING 2004 musicartpoliticsculture listings ISSUE SAUL WILLIAMS THE CRYSTAL METHOD DJ DAN 1208 CONVERSATION WITH A ‘HUMAN SHIELD’ THE FRAMES / FREDDI C / DJ SWAMP / HISHAM SAMAWI / BEAT THE PRESS: QUESTIONS THAT CANNOT BE ASKED / AND MORE... ding green of the grass is a striking contrast to The blin the blood r ore. He skips and whistles…the b ed sky…C n here bef eat goes on. A Huck tak bee child-like g es no no to full extension, striking like a snake. He hur lee consu tice, although snaps in tles his gren mes him he is vaguely aware he’s r leaves in syncopation. BOOM! CRA ades at t as his ath wing thei SH! SPLAT! Th he garde letic arm first curls back and then blo do not notice t e beat goe ners dot y…Perhaps they hemselves, perhap s on…On ting the landsca evanc s they do no e by on pe who are mindlessly ear. Disintegration. Like the flesh of th t care. A e they per w disapp e bipedal bot nd as qu ish in a mushroom cloud of irrel- no s it mean? Is it punish anists he h ickly as se. What doe ment? Is it reward as so qu the answers had co purpo ? He stops ickly dis me to CHuck, they ing higher and higher, and the beat goes o to contem posed of. A row arch n…TO BE CON plate, h loud knock leaves him without b TINUED… is mind t icking away the possibilities, his eye- 2 | WAV MAGAZINE It’s our turn. We’ve watched and waited FEATURES and accepted and acquiesced…but it will soon all be ours. No need to fret, no need 13 treason or good reason? to panic, no need to yell and argue in a conversation with a “human shield” musicartpoliticsculture fruitless effort to drill new-timer thoughts into old-timer heads. Just let nature take 24 saul williams saul williams pops a WHITE head EDITOR-IN-CHIEF its course. 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