blissblogger
Well-known member
>nutmeg
>cousin cockroach
>pavel koustik
>da one away
>nature's plan
>visioneers
>silhouette brown
just the names alone tell me everything i need to know [shudder]
no but seriously at some point (jacob's opptical stairway probly) 4 hero got stuck on this one synth sound, that sort of shimmer-squelch, didn't they -- i can't remember the precise track but i was listening to a roy ayers best of and there it was The Synth Sound, the one they're fixated on, i was like "aha!"
i've got no problems with slick, some of my favorite black music, whether it's Earth wind Fire or SOS Band or Zapp or whatever, is slick -- almost by definition black music is slick innit (there's no black equivalent of Swell Maps, no cult of sloppy or amateurism, it just doesn't compute), it's almost always aiming for supertight perfection and dazzle
what some of us are railing (slight exaggeration) about isn't slickness, it's tepidity and a sort of fussy noodly quality and a kind of over-exaggerated lightness of touch that's pretty prissy
and of course, compared with the sheer grind of crunk or even grime, a lot of the soi-disant funkoid stuff isn't actually that funky
this discussion is reminding me of the genuine shock i got when Matt outed himself, in the twilight days of woebot, as a onetime acid-jazz afficianado!
>cousin cockroach
>pavel koustik
>da one away
>nature's plan
>visioneers
>silhouette brown
just the names alone tell me everything i need to know [shudder]
no but seriously at some point (jacob's opptical stairway probly) 4 hero got stuck on this one synth sound, that sort of shimmer-squelch, didn't they -- i can't remember the precise track but i was listening to a roy ayers best of and there it was The Synth Sound, the one they're fixated on, i was like "aha!"
i've got no problems with slick, some of my favorite black music, whether it's Earth wind Fire or SOS Band or Zapp or whatever, is slick -- almost by definition black music is slick innit (there's no black equivalent of Swell Maps, no cult of sloppy or amateurism, it just doesn't compute), it's almost always aiming for supertight perfection and dazzle
what some of us are railing (slight exaggeration) about isn't slickness, it's tepidity and a sort of fussy noodly quality and a kind of over-exaggerated lightness of touch that's pretty prissy
and of course, compared with the sheer grind of crunk or even grime, a lot of the soi-disant funkoid stuff isn't actually that funky
this discussion is reminding me of the genuine shock i got when Matt outed himself, in the twilight days of woebot, as a onetime acid-jazz afficianado!