ECM may refer to:
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence, taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA, a Canadian jazz magazine.
The label was distributed in the USA by Warner Bros. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, by Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram.
Its album covers have been profiled in two books thus far, Sleeves of Desire and Windfall Light, both published by Lars Müller.
The first ECM release was Free at Last in 1969 by American pianist Mal Waldron. For some years the label specialised in jazz, releasing recordings by pianists Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Egberto Gismonti and Art Lande; saxophonist Jan Garbarek, vibraphonist Gary Burton; drummers Jon Christensen and Paul Motian; guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, Bill Connors and Terje Rypdal; bassists Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Charlie Haden, Barre Phillips and Dave Holland; and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
In linguistics, the term exceptional case-marking (ECM) denotes a phenomenon where the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in the superordinate clause and, if it is a pronoun, is unexpectedly marked with object case morphology (him not he, her not she, etc.). The unexpected object case morphology is deemed "exceptional". The term ECM itself was coined in the Government and Binding grammar framework, although the phenomenon is closely related to the accusativus cum infinitivo constructions of Latin. ECM-constructions are also studied within the context of raising. The verbs that license ECM are known as raising-to-object verbs. Many languages lack ECM-predicates, and even in English, the number of ECM-verbs is small. The structural analysis of ECM-constructions varies in part according to whether one pursues a relatively flat structure or a more layered one.
The ECM-construction is licensed by a relatively small number of verbs in English (e.g., believe, judge, prove, want, etc.):
Re:ECM is a 2011 album by minimal techno producers Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer. It uses recordings released on the ECM Records label primarily associated with jazz and contemporary classical music as the basis for the tracks.
(Keep you goin' when i'm flowin' smooth enough)
Yes Yes Y'all, i still fiend by any means a flow
and i go through extremes don't intervene
my adventures show like a three dimensional screen
coz i mention many things and i'm presenting many scenes
i guess i'm telegraphic, motions energentic
better tell 'em forget it, coz i'm telekinetic
ideas is blowin', mics is blowin
from what i'm showin, see it , i keep it goin' when i'm flowin
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
Poetical pages cause panic, freestyles is frantic
thoughts is organic, flow is aerodynamic
mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet
I send out the scribe now the vibes gigantic
Now, I'm internationally known, mental capacitys blown
I hope your microphones accident prone, raw footage is shown
but only showin' scenes of my own
puttin' your periphereal vision in a zone
but not the twilight, from the insight that i write
and recite, in my mic , will be bright , coz i like
the night glowin', its out of sight what i'm showin
rappers are knowin', i keep it goin' when i'm flowin
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
When i'm flowin', theoritically speakin' like a drummer
I take you through the streets, to the park in the summer
or illustrate, a time and place you've never been
and make you focus on the future after seein' the beginning
and my style wilds like Miles on the trumpet
volume dial is kinda low , need to pump it
up another notch, turn the dial till it stops
more watts you got, more things to watch
third eye's wide open, you focus on a theory
keep scopin' till you hear me, words are spoken clearly
its no smoke screens on the scenes that i'm showin
man i keep it goin', damn i keep it flowin
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
Accurate tactics make 'em clap to this
when i move the crowd, my rhythm still dont miss
breeze through melodies coz its been a long time
my lyrics is fury and rappers hate to hear me rhyme
every antidote that i quote, is no joke
nobodys smilin' in the ghetto from the notes i wrote
my high techniques wreck and disrepect beats
have you followin' the leader up and down the streets
so kick along, as i rip a song with pull
as the rhyme goes on i get paid in full
its Rakim, indicating rhymes for the showin
check it out y'all, i keep it goin' when i'm flowin
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through
I get visual, scenes of the lyrical individuals critical
non kids can do, i'm comin' through