jackjambie
Voodoo Priest
i think trap really is the elephant in the room (/club) right now - especially with harlem shake suddenly going all gangnam style.
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i remember liking this track about a year ago, but it seems to have gained a whole new lease of life recently as a big viral internet thing where ppl go crazy to it.
i went to a grime night in brixton with teddy and kutz and ppl DJing, and apart from the really old grime instrumentals like rhythm and gash and SX and stuff, the tunes that were really going off were all trap. harlem shake definitely got played and the kids were loving it. kutz played pretty much 100% real trap shit - "damn son where'd you find this" vocals and all.
a mate of mine also puts on a "DJ soc" in a London uni that i went to recently. pretty amazing thing to watch but freshers pay like a few quid and then queue for literally a mile around the bar to jump on to a pair of CDJs and mix 3-4 tracks. there's no dancing, just waiting for their turn to DJ. most of the people there were playing trap.
there seem to be 2 types of trap -
1) the dark bassy snarey trap rap beat that's now established as a more hardcore beat for rappers like chief keef, rick ross, A$AP etc to spit over
2) the really internetty stuff that is a lot more in your face and seems to have come off the back of moombahton and US dubstep and is massive on soundcloud, involves m€$$|€tt€®$, dodgy remixes, samples, tumblr goths seemed to have been early supporters of, mad decent love, students love etc.
obviously, i love the first but am not so sure about the second, though that seems to be the style that's really taken off. personally i find the internetty stuff a bit goofy and too close to american frat boy type music (as demonstrated in the harlem shake vids).
it's obviously not even close to being in the same sort of boat as EDM / US dubstep though, which i think is obviously all tripe.
kode9 played a bit of both at DMZ the other night (instrumental to Usher's 'Lemme See' which is a long time persy 4 me, TNGHT's 'burial ground' & Baauer's 'Rollup' rmx) and it all sounded really good.
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most importantly UK DJs are playing it, and a lot of it, and i think that that's probably a better thing than people just endlessly playing more UK bass, house music etc but i wonder what happens next.
a lot of the up north (and london) ex-/ current grime producers are making it too, and obviously it's made a massive impression on grime if you listen to the new vocal tracks / mixtapes from big nars etc (i'm sure this topic also has been covered on the grime thread on here...). that's never going to be a bad thing, but i just can't help but feel like maybe it's a bit of a dead ender if you're literally just imitating an american style. plus it's not really very underground...is it...even if it might sound like it. not that that's necessarily a bad thing, obviously, but it does make it VERY easy for DJs to play / hard for them not to play if that's honestly what literally everyone wants to hear.
more and more these days it seems like the UK hardcore dance producers are looking Stateside for inspiration (trap, footwork, house). i know that this is not the first example of this happening (grime, gangster jungle) but it is still noticeable, and i wonder what its repurcussions will be (less of a jamaican influence, more commercially minded lyrics / productions, hardcore diva vocals lost in favour of garagey RnB type ones etc?)
P.S. not sure if anyone's mentioned him on dissensus b4, but this guy's been keeping me VERY happy recently, and certainly isn't shy of poking a little bit of fun at the UK and its clubbing heritage in light of the massive success of the present wave of US dance musics (dubstep, edm, trap etc) - https://www.facebook.com/m8pls
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i remember liking this track about a year ago, but it seems to have gained a whole new lease of life recently as a big viral internet thing where ppl go crazy to it.
i went to a grime night in brixton with teddy and kutz and ppl DJing, and apart from the really old grime instrumentals like rhythm and gash and SX and stuff, the tunes that were really going off were all trap. harlem shake definitely got played and the kids were loving it. kutz played pretty much 100% real trap shit - "damn son where'd you find this" vocals and all.
a mate of mine also puts on a "DJ soc" in a London uni that i went to recently. pretty amazing thing to watch but freshers pay like a few quid and then queue for literally a mile around the bar to jump on to a pair of CDJs and mix 3-4 tracks. there's no dancing, just waiting for their turn to DJ. most of the people there were playing trap.
there seem to be 2 types of trap -
1) the dark bassy snarey trap rap beat that's now established as a more hardcore beat for rappers like chief keef, rick ross, A$AP etc to spit over
2) the really internetty stuff that is a lot more in your face and seems to have come off the back of moombahton and US dubstep and is massive on soundcloud, involves m€$$|€tt€®$, dodgy remixes, samples, tumblr goths seemed to have been early supporters of, mad decent love, students love etc.
obviously, i love the first but am not so sure about the second, though that seems to be the style that's really taken off. personally i find the internetty stuff a bit goofy and too close to american frat boy type music (as demonstrated in the harlem shake vids).
it's obviously not even close to being in the same sort of boat as EDM / US dubstep though, which i think is obviously all tripe.
kode9 played a bit of both at DMZ the other night (instrumental to Usher's 'Lemme See' which is a long time persy 4 me, TNGHT's 'burial ground' & Baauer's 'Rollup' rmx) and it all sounded really good.
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most importantly UK DJs are playing it, and a lot of it, and i think that that's probably a better thing than people just endlessly playing more UK bass, house music etc but i wonder what happens next.
a lot of the up north (and london) ex-/ current grime producers are making it too, and obviously it's made a massive impression on grime if you listen to the new vocal tracks / mixtapes from big nars etc (i'm sure this topic also has been covered on the grime thread on here...). that's never going to be a bad thing, but i just can't help but feel like maybe it's a bit of a dead ender if you're literally just imitating an american style. plus it's not really very underground...is it...even if it might sound like it. not that that's necessarily a bad thing, obviously, but it does make it VERY easy for DJs to play / hard for them not to play if that's honestly what literally everyone wants to hear.
more and more these days it seems like the UK hardcore dance producers are looking Stateside for inspiration (trap, footwork, house). i know that this is not the first example of this happening (grime, gangster jungle) but it is still noticeable, and i wonder what its repurcussions will be (less of a jamaican influence, more commercially minded lyrics / productions, hardcore diva vocals lost in favour of garagey RnB type ones etc?)
P.S. not sure if anyone's mentioned him on dissensus b4, but this guy's been keeping me VERY happy recently, and certainly isn't shy of poking a little bit of fun at the UK and its clubbing heritage in light of the massive success of the present wave of US dance musics (dubstep, edm, trap etc) - https://www.facebook.com/m8pls
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