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preppy-kei
I have to admit this is one strand of dance music/electronica that pisses me off.
I suppose there are old-school gems like Three Feet High and Rising or Paul's Boutique, but it's been really grating and tired for me for ages now. We've had at least fifteen years of this stuff: DJ Shadow, Mr Scruff, Bentley Rythym Ace (Big Beat on the whole I suppose).
I remember The Avalanches album coming out a couple of years back and feeling really depressed about it..."We're still at this point, still stuck in the mid-nineties?" was my reaction.
It's always the same palette of sounds laid out in about 1990 isn't it? Big rockin' breakbeats, "warm" real instrument samples, library records, generally a grabbag of pre-punk/pre-Kraftwerk sounds that must have been interesting again in the sequencer-driven late 80s. It's an an excuse for the "organic" -ugh- to sneak back into music again in my opinion.
I suppose there are old-school gems like Three Feet High and Rising or Paul's Boutique, but it's been really grating and tired for me for ages now. We've had at least fifteen years of this stuff: DJ Shadow, Mr Scruff, Bentley Rythym Ace (Big Beat on the whole I suppose).
I remember The Avalanches album coming out a couple of years back and feeling really depressed about it..."We're still at this point, still stuck in the mid-nineties?" was my reaction.
It's always the same palette of sounds laid out in about 1990 isn't it? Big rockin' breakbeats, "warm" real instrument samples, library records, generally a grabbag of pre-punk/pre-Kraftwerk sounds that must have been interesting again in the sequencer-driven late 80s. It's an an excuse for the "organic" -ugh- to sneak back into music again in my opinion.