Benny Bunter
Well-known member
^ lol
Back on topic, anyone heard Bob Dylan's new 'un?
Back on topic, anyone heard Bob Dylan's new 'un?
There are plenty of black hipsters in East London, you don't dress self conciously enough to fit into that bracket IMHO
house and techno is the shared reference point for all of this, which might make comparisons seem interesting or worthwhile but in reality its too broad for that. some of my favourite music comes from that world, and also some of the stuff i dislike the most.
all the house that comes from the 'established' scene that ive seen you post has been glossy, formulaic, grooveless tech-house, which is the stuff that actively put me off exploring house music in more detail up until 4 or 5 years ago.
it's what jackin' producers are looking towards too, so that goes some way to making sense of our personal responses to that music i guess, and to your bemusement at how the rhythms of something like 'cactus' can function on a dancefloor despite it just being a swung 4x4 pattern and being held down by a giant off-beat hi-hat
re: scenius etc... the best thing about the situation us lot have found ourselves in is that there is still huge interaction between musicians, DJs and labels, it's just that it's not confined either to those within local proximity of each other or to those within a narrow stylistic range. ive worried about this same issue too but really one of the best things about the past couple of years to me has been this freedom to form relationships with people whose music i feel an affinity with regardless of where they're from
How you come to that conclusion?
The hipster thing is weird man. If I was white people would probably call me a hipster too.
i would actually disagree with this - i think its gone more dancefloor. if you look at what someone like untold is making or releasing these days for example, its much more for the floor than it used to be. eg - motion the dance.
I'm friends with a lot of "hipsters" (by that I mean like, people who are image conscious, keep their ears to trends in culture, study arts and humanities and want to go into the creative industries)
It's not just the tempo, but just generally that most jUKe has more quantised rhythms, goes a bit less crazy with the vocal loops, is less out there, easier than the Chi-town originals. Not all the time, Sully did big things with it, Kuedo, Om Unit as well, and then people like Lenkems and Serantis on a kind of mutant-bass bangface tip. But generally when you consider the relation of UKG to garage house, or UK funky to funky house, the UK's always made things darker, weirder, it's always made the rhythm section more syncopated etc. and that didn't seem to be the case with Addison Groove and the juke influenced 'bass'.
Rich Gang
Flockaveli
Late Nights
Sremmlife
All at least good
Need to listen to that Jazmine Sullivan album
very impressed to skim this list of the best 100 albums of the 10s to see there is not a single good one on it.
narrowcast: My Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
narrowcast.blogspot.com
Nobody listens to albums anymore, I suspect. Not even the old ones. I guess I have listened to one or two albums this year.