For hip hop that's expanding boundaries and
minds, check Live Human's _Monostereosis_
on FatCat (just reissued in the US on Hip Hop
Slam) and their forthcoming album on Matador, _Elefish
Jellyphant_. They combine turntablism with live
bass, drums, cello, jaw harp and other unconventional
instruments to create a mutant strain on
this genre. El Stew are also working with a similar
m.o. to slightly less interesting effect.
Dave Segal
Managing Editor/Alternative Press
Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux
Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST [www.wcsb.org]
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quoted 29 lines From: "Scott McKeating" <mckeating23@hotmail.com>
>From: "Scott McKeating" <mckeating23@hotmail.com>
>
>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