I'm a little late on this conversation...
quoted 4 lines When techno came along, everyone thought it was strange because there
> When techno came along, everyone thought it was strange because there
> were no vocals. Artists like the Prodigy and Moby slim broke into the
> mainstream by using loads of vocal samples or actual vocalists in they
> tracks. This is not pushing the envelope. This is complying to the >
demands of the corporate machine to gain acceptance and monetary success.
but now that instrumental electronic music is becoming more mainstream (not
that the music has changed much - rather that there are more mainstream outlets
for electronic artists - car commercials, for instance) doesn't it make sense
that electronic musicians are experimenting with vocals - pushing the
boundaries of idm by introducing elements of pop music, rap & soul? It seems to
me that people are making some very interesting music nowadays, and many of the
better 'idm' labels like chocolate industries, city centre offices, morr music
& even warp (lex imprint) also put out a good deal of rap & what could be
considered 'indie rock'.
quoted 2 lines As for my Soul music comment, I do understand that there are great soul
> As for my Soul music comment, I do understand that there are great soul
> artists out there, but the trend in POP MUSIC these days is to borrow >
heavily from Soul and do a real shitty job with it. Rap has already >
begun to take over IDM. I like a lot of Rap, but again, I feel if there > are
too many IDM acts that incorporate Rap into their tracks, it will > take
over and there will be less and less instrumental IDM.
not exactly. If you look at some of the better rap/idm crossovers, you'll find
that a good amount of the material on any given album is purely instrumental.
take pole's collaboration with fat jon, for instance - or funkstorung's
'appetite for disctruction' - even crossover projects like Urban Renewal
Program still contain a lot of instrumental music.
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