Maybe an Irish IDM artist will flirt a little with
Irish music, and it
might lead to interesting results, who knows? But then
again, look at
the Corrs - they've conquered the world with a load of
pop/rock ballads
cleverly disguised as Irish traditional music. I
hardly think that's
"regionally valid" or not "culturally weak" but by
your criteria
there's
a danger that they could be interpreted as such.
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good point. often the most earnest attempts at
"representing region" while working with a foreign
style produce the most nauseating results.
particularly when one or the other "side" of your
music (regional vs. foreign style) isn't what you're
really interested in.
on a related subject: prefuse 73 is good (i think),
but there's no reason to worship. It's a pretty
obvious response to "integrating idm/hip hop" (take
the beat of hip-hop and replace sounds with oval-ish
tones and ae-ish hi-hats, make the vocals all
"skittery" and "chopped up" - preferably illegible to
make it more radically different - etc), and certainly
not revolutionary, particularly with the sounds he
uses. but again, no diss intended. it's good stuff.
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