Not aimed at anyone!
I see there's a lot of comedy banter on how formulaic hip-hop/rap/RnB is,
you know if you only dig 2 feet deep you aren't going to find anything
useful. It's as diverse as you can be bothered to look for.
Hip hop is a genre like "electronica" which doesn't appear to have any set
rules. I know hip hop is considered to be vocals/samples/beats but a lot of
it doesn't conform to this. Eg as far as i know the "turntablism" movement
is as big a part of hip hop as the leftfield antics of the Anti pop
consortium CD, much maligned Puff Daddy, breaking and graffiti. So its a big
field to play in, you could even suggest that it's more diverse than IDm, as
it's concerned with (mainly) audio only. Cue avalance of disagreement and
laughter at my naivity.
I would class some of Killah priest's "Heavy Mental" as IDM, not as in the
bleepyambientthing but as in dancable music breaking newish ground sonically
and lyrically.
And like the Roots may hark back to an underground gone by, it's still
breaking barriers for the genre. Just like some of the new IDM stuff
probably harks back to styles gone before. The question could be asked has
the IDM movement ever shifted that far forward at all.
C'mon, let me have it.
Scott
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