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From:
kent williams
To:
Sham Beam
Cc:
do id
Date:
Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:59:49 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] Trap music recommendations
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Listen to whatever you want. I think that producers outside its original milieu appropriating trap style signifiers is suspect. I am in general very suspicious of fad genres. Dubstep had about 10 years of interesting, musically valid evolution until it became a fad, and now it is basically over, killed by joy-buzzer bro-step. People are embarrassed to admit now that there is good dubstep being made; or they tag it now as a different genre. Skrillex has started making house music. If Skrillex is embarrassed to be making dubstep, you know it's done. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Sham Beam <sham.beam@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 7 lines There is Trap as a hip hop style, which is inextricably tied to a> > There is Trap as a hip hop style, which is inextricably tied to a > > dire urban environment. > > Does that make listening to or appropriating elements of trap exploitative > if you're white middle class? > >