Happy to report that queer people in the midwest are making and DJing music faster than 130 that is really good.
Yeah US stuff from Detroit, Chi, NYC, NJ and then the occasional anomaly from somewhere like Murkfrom Miami is where its at. They all did so many different things with their beats. You can't reduce that to shades of beige, man. No way. Filtered disco loops, backwards hats that sound like they suck into themselves, mad beats made from several drum machines with different swing settings. Using claps on every kick. Using sidechained reverb on a kick to create an underwater push n pull sensation. The decayed sound of Detroit Beatdown drums. Plastikman - Spastik, 808s and tempo synced delays. There's so many things that can be done. Just saying it's a little bit much to reduce it down like that. Curtis Jones vs Dana Kelley. Shit, cat!
Sure, but this is all from the innovation phase. 30+ years old most of it.
Sure, but this is all from the innovation phase. 30+ years old most of it.
https://vanitypressrecords.bandcamp.com/album/davis-galvin-ep
Try to keep an eye on what's going on in Pittsburgh, and like thirdform said the Brooklyn scene is pretty cool. I also have been playing a lot of stuff from footwork producers which is nuts.
Anybody here like bastiengoat?
https://bastiengoat.bandcamp.com/
What is it about 130 that makes to so torpid and equally so inescapable? Give us a grand theory
Evolution has stalled. There's just this gelatinous blob of 4 to the floor that's ponderously spreading, sliding under the doors and through cracks in the walls, consuming all genre and hope of innovation in its path and replacing it with the dull thud of the kick drum.
Its the universal solvent. The vehicle for ultimate homogenisation. The future is a kick drum stamping on the human face at 130 beats per minute - forever.