mms said:
ipersonally i can stand 4/4 more than i can stand bloddy electro!
yeah, i think the electro thing is played out at this point
early 80s references, italo/electro, coldness, distance, irony -- all done for
still think there's room, however, to reinvestigate the "disco not disco" end of the early 80s -- i.e., polyrhythms combined with sampladelic quirkiness and fun
i was struck by the remark on the new "house is a feeling" blog featuring tim f, dubplatestyle, etc, that house music still has untapped "hippy" resources!!! -- i'm not sure what the writer meant exactly -- but it made me flash on early san franciso sound -- i.e., maybe update the early sf sound to make it more polyrhythmic??? maybe speed the bpm's up???
but if that were to happen, would it be mere confirmation that we're stuck in the same rat maze, going back and forth b/w coldness and irony, on the one side, and cosmic hippy-dippy positivity, on the other
yet so long as grime (and uk 'ardcore more broadly) goes in a hip hop direction, then a re-worked cosmic "cali" sound might well be the most viable direction for dance music proper