blog house

Guybrush

Dittohead
I have heard the term being used before, actually. The artists listed are spot-on, especially Switch. As the article suggests, it is closely tied to the concept of hipsters and hipster music. Objectively (;)), most of it is pants.
 

Guybrush

Dittohead
Also, it is not so much that the music sucks, but that the people playing it seem to download their whole playlist from the same select few blogs. Boring, and a little weird, considering how much music is released these days.
 

elgato

I just dont know
As the article suggests, it is closely tied to the concept of hipsters and hipster music. Objectively (;)), most of it is pants.

a fair bit of it is absolutely sick though

i hate it when good music is undermined by attracting a hipster crowd
 
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Woebot

Well-known member
"For some, hearing a DJ play blog house signifies that they know very little about the actual history of house music and are just playing, listening and talking about these particular songs since they have gotten hyped from certain taste maker blogs."

Ha ha ha ha. That's oooh so close to the bone.
 

straight

wings cru
indie kids with broadband. actually reminds me of quite a few people i play with, id say one of the first big blog house casualtys was last years carl craig remix of revelee, overnight every fool was a carl craig die hard and i didnt understand how it happened until one such blog DJ admitted this was the channel. it seems the hype machine has become as invaluable as wikipedia for lightning quick primers on music youre a bit short on. though i do admit to checkin out quite a few tracks on the hype for handiness after readin about them
 
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Don Rosco

Well-known member
For an article written by an apparent blogger, it's incredibly badly written.

"Blog House" is almost a complete opposite of the typical and stylistically clean French filter disco house that made Paris famous in 1996.

Code:
[I]1996, a record shop[/I]

DJ A: Have you heard this new Filter House sound? It's from Paris.

DJ B: Paris?

DJ A: Yeah, it's a city in France apparently.

DJ B: Wicked, Paris, yeah. France.
 

straight

wings cru
of course it wouldnt have happened but that is a ridiculous lludite premise. it seems a lot of ebay vinyl geeks are up in arms about this sort of thing, but when it comes down to it the speed of digital cuts out a lot of industry beaurocracy as well as white label snobbery. anyone i know whose guilty of this is merely getting hold of what the crowd wants, is likely to get rinsed and fall out of favour. their vinyl buying is a much more personal thing
 

swears

preppy-kei
I think there's some truth in the idea that being able to download anything at the drop of a hat and play it out is bad for DJ sets. When a DJ pays money for a record they're investing something in it. When you can download whatever you want for free from an MP3 blog or P2P server, well, any dipshit can do that can't they? Whether they really love house music or not. The act of handing over cash for tunes in an actual record shop does filter out a lot of the day-trippers. The whole point of being a good DJ is that you've got floor-slaying jams nobody else has. This sort of gormless conformity really baffles me.
 

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
of course it wouldnt have happened but that is a ridiculous lludite premise. it seems a lot of ebay vinyl geeks are up in arms about this sort of thing, but when it comes down to it the speed of digital cuts out a lot of industry beaurocracy as well as white label snobbery. anyone i know whose guilty of this is merely getting hold of what the crowd wants, is likely to get rinsed and fall out of favour. their vinyl buying is a much more personal thing

i was being trite and a bit flippant.

i think cd turntables, and serrato and such, are actually great tools. i imagine, had they been around more prevalently at the beginning of jungle, then maybe we wouldnt have had the "few major labels monopoly" in the scene that some are saying hurt it. by that i mean, if top djs who make the tastes for a scene can play music from anyone - not just those that can cut a dubplate - than that genre has a much better chance of not going stale.

however, what i meant was.... theres so many djs nowadays that never picked up vinyl, and basicaly have anything they can download to play from. add this to the "i have to have the newest hottest song" phenomenom... and you get things like blog house.

personally, i find having vinyl creates a sort fo relationship between myself and the music. if there is a physical entity i can touch and hold and possess, then that piece of music means so much more to me than a file i burned onto a cd, or a waveform crossing my view.
 

Guybrush

Dittohead
Most hypes dumbfound me. A suspicion always nags: do they like the song because it massages their auditory nerves in a pleasing way (i.e. a sort of ‘objective’ elation)? Or is it because they unconsciously get excited by everyone else supposedly liking it, and thus like the song more than they would were they to hear it ‘on its own’ (if you catch my drift)? Or is it a combination of the two? I’m sure some of you have tried playing pre-recorded crowd noises while DJing (I’m listening to Moodymann’s ‘Answer Machine’ as I’m typing this—a great example). It’s a bit cheesy, but it always works brilliantly. The extra ‘cheers’ and ‘yeahs’ don’t really add anything to the songs, yet they somehow make people appreciate the songs hiding behind the cheers a lot more. A banal observation, perhaps, but this group behaviour must play a part in these blog-hypes as well. I think it’s so as I find it very hard to explain why everyone goes bananas specifically for the new Digitalism track, say, and not one of the hundreds of other songs like it.

One interesting aspect of this blog DJing phenomenon is that people are encouraged to listen in on the songs before they go to a gig. As Swears points out, traditionally, most club DJs have prided themselves on playing songs that few people on the dance floor have heard—that single song that will make the dance-floor dwellers go ‘WTF is this?’. Not so with these DJs, they deliberately play songs that have made the blog rounds. In doing so, they are much closer to hip-hop, r&b and indie-rock DJs than house and techno DJs in their approach.

Also:

Loads of crunk = rock-ey in places (if you ask me)
Loads of Baltimore = (often) rock-ey
Loads of Justice/Oizo/SebastiAn = rock-ey in the extreme
Loads of ‘nu-rave’ = rock-ey

...so arguably not a lot of house.

Now I’m off to se a real house DJ tear da roof off!
 

straight

wings cru
in fact 90% of the time its referin to indie/electro djs tryin to keep up with the diplo effect, global hyper-eclecticism, something that in pre internet times would have been unheard of. that was a point i was going to make, i suppose callin it blog house is a wee bit of a misnomer really.
 

Gabba Flamenco Crossover

High Sierra Skullfuck
The wiki entry seeems to be a description of the type of people who are on the scene, more than the kind of music that characterises it. There's only one line describing the music, and it just sounds like dirty electro house ('gang-rape house', as someone I know charmingly described it). Electro house has been around for donkeys years now.

@swears. Gotta take care that this attitude doesnt slip into obscurantism for it's own sake, tippex-ing out the labels on records so people can't ID them, etc. I'm generally in favour of download culture and digital DJing for increasing access to music. But, yeah, point taken. Almost by definition, there's no point in being a DJ if you're playing tracks that everyone else in the room already has.
 

hurricane run

Well-known member
surely blog house is preferably to beard house or dad house? as an elderly house "head" who given the chance sits smoking his pipe listening to red zone dubs whilst checking his chez edits in the spare room, i like that the kids seem to be ignoring the bill brewster lists and getting on with doing their own shit. Beard house (can't believe i'm using these terms) is the last refuge of the terminally boring collector. i know because i used to be one... but i sold all my idjut boys re-edits, those 12" of pleasure from black cock, ron trent jazz workouts. yeuugh. Let the kids have the clubs back to dance to whatever they want (and hang harvey and gilles p) rock dynamics with house beats sounds good to me
 
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