Oftentimes you forget what makes your life so good. Rap band
Something Good is here to remind you with an album of beats from Focus
Aside (real estate salesman Chandler Haliburton), emceed by Hali rap
veterans Markit and Boy-Ill. The secret ingredient is former DJ
Olympics champion Y-Rush, with cuts to bring us back to classic hip-hop
where it can’t be done without the DJ. Just Add Water reminds you that
being in your 20s, chilling with your boys and kissing your girl is
something to be happy about, and gives a little hope that hip-hop can
still be fun. A love song to the end of childhood, with beats so
fricking grooving they had to have been smuggled in a time machine back
from 1993.
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2009.
If Something Good goes on tour make sure they head west to Haliburton, Ontario, a small town and a vast county named in honour of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. He was chairman of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. It bought eight townships of land in what is now the heart of Ontario’s cottage country. As real estate deals go, it was a bust. The land was horrible for farming; when the train tracks were laid down more people used the train to leave Haliburton than settle here. The company went bankrupt but TC Haliburton’s legacy endures. Martha Perkins, outgoing editor of the Haliburton County Echo.