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>===== Original Message From Neujinn01@aol.com =====quoted 5 lines I DO think it's a VERY difficult thing to pull off well, and I think
> I DO think it's a VERY difficult thing to pull off well, and I think
>that it'll probably be more prone to fail than fly at this point.
> But hey, like I said, IDM if ever moving forward. Maybe I just haven't
>met the artist who, for me, will bridge the gap between these two very
>divergent styles.
I actually agree on this. I try to track down as much hip-hop as stuff that
gets talked about on this list, and find that most anything I've heard that
was produced by this-listy producers falls down. I don't like Funkstoerung, so
I guess my opinion is coming from quite a different set of values than those
who've rated or rejected their recent mix efforts.
The thing I wanted to add to this follows what Andrew Schrock said re: the
production of eg. Blackalicious and the Anti-pop Consortium being really
contemporary with "electronic" stuff. Most people I know who are sold on
hip-hop see one of its key characteristics being that it pushes boundaries.
Because of that, hip-hoppers don't say "that's not hip-hop, it's IDM with an
MC", they say "this is taking hip-hop to the next level". So the stuff that
comes from within the hip-hop community isn't necessarily picked up on as
IDM-friendly, because the very characteristics of the genre include the fact
that it constantly changes.
Disclaimers: yeah, I'm generalising (obviously what the mainstream calls for
is the complete opposite of the above); I use the word "community" with
hesitation, etc. etc. :-)
Michael
np. 'Innervisions' - Stevie Wonder
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