one werd, ANITCON, one link -
http://www.anticon.com one message - piss off.
At 12:16 PM 7/1/2001 -0700, winblad.donald.ichiro wrote:
quoted 49 lines I didn't grow up the 'hood, but I find that rap is an
> >I didn't grow up the 'hood, but I find that rap is an
> >outlet for rage and anger geared towards young black
> >males that don't know any better than to 'buy' scads
> >of cds by artists that churn out mindless amounts of
> >repetitive drivel speaking of some woman's 'bootie'
> >they 'boned' last night.
>
>i think that's a bit of stereotyping don't you?
>there's plenty of hip-hop artists, both vocal and
>instrumental, that don't fit into your view of what
>hip-hop is. it's true that a lot of commercialised
>shit you hear on the radio is crap but there's plenty
>of underground material that doesn't fall into the
>"bling-bling" category.
>
> >I find rap to be complete crap quite plain and
> >simple. The days of creativity have obviously run
> >out with todays rap, and if you think electronic
> >artists should look towards rap as influence, the
> >genre itself will be ruined.
>
>to me it seems that some electronic artists aren't
>even really making the music anymore. they're more
>programmers that develop software that "randomly"
>makes their music for them. i think that it is much
>harder to make an album that is 100% sample-based ala
>dj shadow than it is to buy some drum machines, a
>keyboard/sequencer or an all computer-based system and
>make music.
>
>obviously both sides look to each other for
>inspiration. people like autechre and boards of
>canada have nothing but good things to say about
>producers like the rza and they admit that their
>background is hip-hop based. obviously early hip-hop
>(electro type shit) was heavily influenced by
>electronic music (i.e. afrika bambaataa looking
>towards kraftwerk, etc...) i think that it all goes
>hand in hand. both are musics based on technology,
>just different approaches.
>
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