Rachel Verinder
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Would someone be able to translate that review into English for me? Thanks.
Mercury Shortlist 2006
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swears
preppy-kei
Rachel Verinder said:
E-mail the author this:http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_articles
and ask him to get back to you.
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simon silverdollar
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danski said:
big tune.
Raw Patrick
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"20-inch rims with the chrome now/ Blazin' out Yo La Tengo"
But that's genre busting too.
But that's genre busting too.
C/Dizzle
Never Enough
swears said:
I agree, Basement Jaxx made dance music interesting in my teen years.
Something creative that made it over to the mainstream can't be bad.
Speaking of which, I heard a DJ on radio1 saying that Bugz In The Attic could plausibly
fill a jaxx-lke gap in the market... Personally I think their new LP is good, but not quite there.
A few more dancefloor fillers like "move aside" and less messing about might have done the trick.
C/Dizzle
Never Enough
gek-opel said:
Half-arsed sounds about right...
But maybe the scene has dug itself into a bit of a hole. Now that it's (on the whole) given up aping America,
what's left is the grime scene - which suffers from negativity, in-fighting, and attacks from berks like Cameron.
Mainstream media has given it a go (latching onto Dizzee, Wiley, Kano) and doesn't want to do so again until
there's something fresh. That's why M.I.A did so well... it's become a bit of a coffee-table album, but it fitted the bill.
For now I guess, 'urban' (god i hate that word) is quietly doing it's own thing, selling mixtapes to its core fanbase.
Or am I wrong?
Swears: they're not really dance tho are they? Or Indie, really... well indie by origin I guess, but in a similar way to The Beta Band I think... it is not like they are an amazing, mind blowing act, merely that they have an original sound and are interested in rhythm and technology, and aren't interested in neo-postpunk or lighters aloft prematurely ejaculating ballads. This is good, I think anyway...
MankyFiver
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swears
preppy-kei
gek-opel said:
I dunno, I just don't like the way they're hyped so much. It's as if people have to have the indie element in the mix because they can't take dance music seriously on it's own terms.
And the whole white geek trying to be black gag has been done to death. It was played out by the time the Ali G film was released. I'm interested in innovations in hip hop and R'n'B. Not in tired parodies of it's lyrical content.
swears said:
I suspect that the problem facing the genre is that we all now know exactly what you mean when you say "dance music", when in fact, in its heyday, most people wouldn't have had a clue.
I would respectfully suggest that "dance music" won't produce anything interesting for as long as people are waiting for something that sounds like, or is in any meaningful way comparable to, someone else
swears
preppy-kei
blunt said:I suspect that the problem facing the genre is that we all now know exactly what you mean when you say "dance music", when in fact, in its heyday, most people wouldn't have had a clue.
I would respectfully suggest that "dance music" won't produce anything interesting for as long as people are waiting for something that sounds like, or is in any meaningful way comparable to, someone else
Good point. It's like I said, I'd like something to come out that just had everybody scratching their heads.