what about post-uk-swampcore-terror-step?
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Connor Higgins <connor1higgins@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 99 lines Well said Kent.
> Well said Kent.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:38 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Every genre defines conventions. Every genre, furthermore demands a
>> different sort of listening if you're going to understand and enjoy it. To
>> say "The genre that sounds like some kid forgot to add a snare to his
>> half-assed Fruity Loops rap instrumental" is to dismiss a whole musical
>> culture based on a very shallow listening experience, and no understanding
>> of the culture in which it grew up.
>>
>> Juke/Footwork music is very much the product of kids with cracked copies
>> of Fruity Loops; they work with the tools they have. The motivation was to
>> make music whose purpose is to accompany footwork dancing, which is
>> competetive, athletic and intense. The idea is to have the freshest,
>> trickiest rhythm, often played back on shitty boomboxes or Frankenstein
>> sound systems.. Footwork, like Jit in Detroit, is both dance and stylized
>> warfare; it sublimates the violence and frustration of life in "Chiraq."
>> It is something positive in an environment where people are confronted
>> daily with unrelenting negative things.
>>
>> There's a billion footwork tracks and thousands of people making it.
>> Inevitably most of it is not very good, but like any other genre, when it's
>> good it's great.
>>
>> It's OK not to like musical styles. I bet you're not so hot on bluegrass
>> music as well. But like my grandmother always told me about cream corn,
>> "it's better to say you don't care for it than say you hate it."
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:26 PM David Bohan <madvlad00@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Kent,
>>>
>>> Why does Jared have to be ignorant to not like Footwork? It seems like
>>> Jared just thinks this kind of music does not require much effort or much
>>> of it is the same.
>>>
>>> I listened to the compilation album "Bangs & Works Vol. 1" and have
>>> found his sentiment to be true for most of the tracks on that release, with
>>> some exceptions of course.
>>>
>>> Now Jlin's release here is much more experimental and fresh sounding
>>> than the long tracks of TV show themes spread out over lazy beats.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ignorant or silly? Either way, I can't help myself, Kent! Honestly,
>>>> Jlin's stuff isn't that bad. But for some reason it all sounds a bit
>>>> unfinished to me. But if peeps want to call it minimal, so be it!
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:18 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jared, stop being ignorant.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:04 AM Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah yes, Footwork. The genre that sounds like some kid forgot to add
>>>>>> a snare to his half-assed Fruity Loops rap instrumental. Yay world!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:51 AM, David Bohan <madvlad00@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't heard of "Footwork"... is this a new genre of music or
>>>>>>> something?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The tracks you linked to sound interesting to say the least. Find it
>>>>>>> also curious that Jlin works at a steel mill in Gary, Indiana... Not much
>>>>>>> music prides itself on coming from Indiana
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, kent williams <
>>>>>>> chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm surprised footwork/juke hasn't been a bigger thing on the IDM
>>>>>>>> list. This new record on Planet Mu is revelatory.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 22tape/jared dunne
>>>>>> listen <http://22tape.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 22tape/jared dunne
>>>> listen <http://22tape.com>
>>>>
>>>
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