On Tue, 23 May 2000 Neujinn01@aol.com wrote:
quoted 3 lines I just got finished listening to the new Funkstorung as well, and for me
> I just got finished listening to the new Funkstorung as well, and for me
> it begs the question that I must ask: Does the fusion of IDM an Rap really
> work all that well?
i think it can work. it relies, i think, on finding middle ground between
the skittery jumble that most IDM is these days and the more solid
ostinato of hiphop. if you just bring some MC into the studio after
creating Your Very Own Chiastic Slide track #342,224 and expect him/her to
drop science over your skitchies, you gots another thing coming :) but it
doesn't have to be that way...
the key thing to recognize is that in hip hop the "interesting" part of
the music isn't the music (well of course it is sometimes), but they
words. a good mc keeps the flow shifting around and doesn't accent the
same beats over and over again. rhythmically the words can become as
interesting as any sounds you'd hear from the bedroom buffoons that
usually are the subject of this list .. the important thing for the
IDMsters backing up an MC on a hiphophybrid track is not to clutter up the
rhymes with all kinds of extraneous syncopation/noise.
i think the first track off the new bola 12" works great ... it's still
skittery but it has a backbeat that lets the rhythm of the lyrics take the
foreground. i think the background might actually be a little dense but
the processing on the vocals blends them nicely into the mix.
i think idm and hip hop are neighboring bands in the continuous spectrum
of electronic music ... there is plenty of middle ground shared between
them, and personally i'd like to see more collaboration between artists
usually pigeonholed into these slots.
sjoh
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