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2000-05-23 19:36Arne Van Petegem [idm] re: funkstrung/intelligent hiphop
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2000-05-23 19:36Arne Van Petegemanybody ever came up with the thought that funkstörung didn't necessarily set out to 'fuse
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[idm] re: funkstrung/intelligent hiphop
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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 if we're lucky they can even stay in tune with the beat, sample an outdated musical ('it's a hard knock life'???)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" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org