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mms

sometimes
Tanadan said:
hehe yeah imagine wonky classical. :)
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yeah course it could be overused, in any review of anytihng with synths in nowdays in a paper you will find the descriptive word ' glitchy' .
Wonky kinda refers to rhythm and rhythm/tone of melody really i guess.
 
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BareBones

wheezy
elgato said:
i agree that a lot of this stuff is head music (as in mind not body), but so what? who decided that that was objectively a bad thing?

...in any case again, is the mind / body binary really an appropriate one?
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exactly, exactly. some of this stuff is awesome for nodding along with the headphones on, some of it totally slays the dancefloor, a lot of it does both, but i don't elevate one above the other in terms of quality/importance/whatever.
 
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Shonx

Shallow House
Loads of old blues is all over the shop structure and meter wise, might have been moonshine based though
 
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doom

Public Housing
Its a pretty loose term & I'm maybe not using it 100% correct, but whatever. I kinda put all the guys that did grime that are now doing (uk) house in that bracket, with Perempay bein the exception that proves the rule ;)

Ghostman & Cooly G are my favs at the moment & I think Lil Silva & Spyros house beats go in this catagory as well. I dunno (doubt) that any producers would actually consider themselves 'wonky house' producers, but I don't see it as a bad thing at all.

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elgato

I just dont know
doom said:
Cooly G
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these tunes are NEXT. crazy music. i can't actually believe how deep some of these tunes are, Dis Boy and Weak... sigh.

thanks so much for the tip man, you're putting me onto too much good stuff atm!
 
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tom pr

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Lukid's forthcoming album for werk discs is amazing. definitely one for the people in this thread to keep an eye on. likewise the Actress album they've got coming out after. we did a brief interview with lukid, and he did us a mix you can download here.

i DJed at some modular thing on the weekend, supporting ladyhawke and the presets and other such nonsense, and this stuff really filled the dance-floor. the indie kids weren't wilding out or anything, but 'bass transmitter', 'millie', 'grimey princess' etc definitely had them dancing. which is nice.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
doom said:
Ghostman & Cooly G are my favs at the moment & I think Lil Silva & Spyros house beats go in this catagory as well. I dunno (doubt) that any producers would actually consider themselves 'wonky house' producers, but I don't see it as a bad thing at all.

:cool:
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Where can I hear this stuff?
 
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gumdrops

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there seems to be two main strands of wonky - the stuff thats by guys like joker/rustie that takes from grime, dubstep and modern hip hop, and then theres stuff like fly lo, some hud mo and lukid maybe that sounds more like its continuing with what prefuse, shadow and those producers were doing in the late 90s, more faithful to old school hip hop rhythms/sonics, but maybe with more 90s IDM influence too (def in the case of fly lo, 90s IDM seems to figure pretty highly in his beats). i love fly lo but a lot of the other glitchy/shadow-y stuff bores me a bit. am surprised kode 9 seems to have taken to it so much.
 
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synaptic

Global multinuum
doom said:
Its a pretty loose term & I'm maybe not using it 100% correct, but whatever. I kinda put all the guys that did grime that are now doing (uk) house in that bracket, with Perempay bein the exception that proves the rule ;)

Ghostman & Cooly G are my favs at the moment & I think Lil Silva & Spyros house beats go in this catagory as well. I dunno (doubt) that any producers would actually consider themselves 'wonky house' producers, but I don't see it as a bad thing at all.

:cool:
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ok. i thought it might have been something else because wonky seems to be mostly used in a negative way on the (uk) house scene. but yeah i like this stuff.
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
as far as I can tell, "wonky" as an adjective describes music that has synth sounds that go "whaaaaw whaa whaaa whaaaw whaa" like the sounds you hear when you do a whippet

always a scene out there ripe for the hype machine
"innit"
chewed up and spit out within months
 
jambo

jambo

slip inside my schlafsack
Tanadan said:
hehe yeah imagine wonky classical. :)
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This comment made me think of Karlheinz Stockhausen's last composed piece, 'Cosmic Pulses'.
Quite annoyed I missed the full 8 channel performance at the QEH recently, happily you can listen on last.fm here. Set aside 30 minutes, bong optional.

I think it's pretty great, interestingly seems to have been built from a sample of a cheesy digital piano tone. Lots of really great info and diagrams here.

Bit of a (wonky) tangent, I'm sure there's loads more 'classical' that would fit the bill actually.
 
jambo

jambo

slip inside my schlafsack
I do like how 'wonky' is this cross genre signifier, a sensibility, that's often how styles are born obv. Nice that there's no associated tempo as well, could see as a kind of logical next step from dubstep's original '138 and sub' ethos. I think it's best as a nice ingredient to be sprinkled in a set though, could probably become annoying and/or overly clownish if codified into a 'genre' I reckon - if you have a 'wonky scene' where is there to go but more wonky, I think then you'd likely be quite quickly into fruitless, sexless drill n' bass / breakcore type nerd-offs, the wonky wars! It does seem that different commentators here might have some varying ideas abut what is being discussed exactly (?) but uncertainty is no bad thing in a nascent style. Broadly I would say for me the vibe seems to be characterised at the moment by wibbling squealing synths, pitch bends, triplet arpeggios, odd groove grids, that kind of thing. No doubt people will disagree. It's a good enjoyable colourful funky slightly fucked up tendency on the whole though I think.
 
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