g. wrote:
quoted 14 lines On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:58:08 -0500, you wrote:>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:58:08 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Hiphop has an interesting role on this list. A small portion of the
> >music spoken of here is DJ music which sounds like hip hop without a
> >rapper (Food, Krush), but the vast majority of the musicians spoken of
> >on this list have almost no discernable hiphop influence whatsoever. I
> >think I detect a slight note of scorn when people refer to "downbeat"
> >stuff and "trip hop". Any thoughts on this?
>
> ???? i would say the majority of warp artists are hip hop infuenced in
> one way or another.
>
> g.
I would say that the entire music industry is influenced by hip-hop and
that the american film/MTV industry is too. It is difficult to
imagine that contemporary western culture has not been influenced by
hip-hop. I would say that Warp and almost all other labels that we speak
of on this list have been influenced by hip-hop in a major way, whether
they know their influences or not. It is of major importance to me as a
programmer or writer of electronica. I probably receive more inspiration
from hip-hop, architecture and design than I do anything discussed on
this list.