Haunted by Humanity/Technological abstractions of the human voice

[version]

I still like Request Line. It sounds haunted.

 

[blissblogger]

i find it endearing that DJ SS titled that track "Almshouse" when i should think he meant to say "Armshouse"

unless he really was actually inspired by the treatment of the indigent during the Middle Ages

 

[thirdform]

third's big thing is that 'hardcore techno' in the broadest sense should have sustained itself rather than dividing and specialising into hardcore, jungle, belgium techno etc. there was a time where you'd get sets that had stuff from belgium, the states, sheffield and london all mixed together. 4x4 in the same sets or even tracks as breakbeats and so forth.

the coalition should have sustained in his opinion. that track is a glimpse into that lost timeline. a scene of disparate oddities held together solely in the pursuit of mania.

mike milrane 2step or even proto-broken beat from 91

 

[thirdform]

its also why 90-92 hardcore has more inadvertent parallels with northern/rare soul than people like to admit. soulboy as avant-mod, but not the paul weller kind.


out to bassbeyondreason for turning me onto this one...

 

[thirdform]

forming a vanguard that seeks to dethrone art, or make it pure body intellect:

the resolution of the Cartesian mind body dualism western rock music and rockism has not managed to escape.


a stomper

 

[thirdform]

 

[thirdform]

to those all horrified at the rebellion of the sexual unconscious, we say, so what? if it tears down this rotten edifice of musical segregation, then so what? let the accrued intelligence of centuries congeal into a frankenstein's monster to overthrow all frankensteins.

vapourous cougars stalking vulnerable men.

 

[thirdform]

ritual disco


bluesy as well, strangely.

 

[thirdform]

it's not over, you don't belong to lolita holloway but to the mdma machine


the whole history of rave was splitting sounds from their sources. the diva is hyper-frictionalised. this is why everything ultimately has to go back to house and gay culture - if we're using a crude binary. no airiness.


distruction of the voice into a depleted serotonin glitch from 2:58 onwards. it's not even a voice now. the idea of music as surrogate literature has long since been left behind.

 

[Leo]

always imagined this was Villalobos taking the old rock music talk-box (Frampton!) and applying it to minimal/microhouse .

 

[luka]

wake up

 

[qwerty south]

there's a book about this - not much about autotune tho

https://howtowreckanicebeach.com/

 

[version]

Someone's obviously bootlegged this in lieu of an official instrumental. They've tried to EQ the vocals out and ended up with this ghostly impression of Janet's voice, like she's been buried beneath her own tune.

 

[version]

There's a bit in one of Kafka's letters where he posits a war between two forms of technology over what he refers to as "the ghostly element between people." On one side you have modes of transport - planes, trains, cars - things which attempt to eliminate the ghostly element and create "natural communication," and on the other, you have the telegraph and the telephone, the technologies of the ghostly element.

 

[maxi]

just heard this today. pretty interesting use of daft punk-style vocoder on a 90s houston rap song. haven't heard anything like it in hip-hop pre-autotune era

 

[maxi]

except california love of course actually, which they enlisted roger troutman for

 

[maxi]

probably a bunch of g-funk records that use it come to think of it, in tribute to troutman. but still, that houston one sounds different and more modern. more like daft punk

 

[linebaugh]

Ya it sounds alot like how kanye was using autotune on 808s and heartbreaks

 

[linebaugh]

And i dont know if its a quirk of the machine going up between octaves or if hes actually harmonizing two different vocoders but it sounds very neon screams in those moments

 

[DLaurent]

This is probably my biggest hit with 91 views. It's 'generative' music and just a randomised vocal chop over noise oscillators. I did want to do a garage beat under some of them, as I can just load different aappella chops into my sampler and they play on repeat forever like this. I haven't heard it done the same as this before elsewhere, but I don't have a proper iMac and production software anymore. I will do it again when I do.


Might sound good with some Vocoder like this.