anybody ever came up with the thought that funkstörung didn't necessarily
set out to 'fuse' hiphop and IDM, didn't plan to make the big fusion that
would change the course of musical history forever and open new roads into
exciting new sub-genres. maybe they're just two guys making music who like
to throw in whatever they're listening to at the moment. just for fun, you
know, or simply because that's what they're into while making this or that
track. somebody earlier calling funkstörung's use of hiphop
'neo-colonialist' is no more than a stupid remark from a person who's had a
bad experience with his anthropology teacher.
quoted 5 lines "The problem is I think they are just two very different genres of music
>"The problem is I think they are just two very different genres of music
>listened to for very different reasons. A good rap track can have steady
>beat (usually a typical 4/4 or otherwise), a funky baseline, hopefully an
>original sample, and an MC whose rhymes flow in tandem with the beat and
>rhythmn. (When it's done well, that is.) And that's fine."
yeah, that's fine. let's leave hiphop to the brothers to shake booty. if
we're lucky they can even stay in tune with the beat, sample an outdated
musical ('it's a hard knock life'???) and be funky. you know, those black
people have a much better sense of rhythm. hiphop couldn't even begin to
touch the great levels of intelligence that 99% of the IDM producers are
capable of. and you know what? the neptunes using IDM beats on the Kelis
record, Dead Prez going all bleepy and analogue on their new album, or DJ
Premier getting more cut-up and glitchier with each new track he's
producing (check Common's 'Sixth Sense' or Afu-Ra), well i suppose that's
just some new form of inverted neo-colonialism.
sorry for the cynicism. i'm in that kind of mood.
arne
"pulled from the edge of ruin"
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