Posted on 09/09/2014 8:35:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
A data alchemist has split music into over 1,000 bewildering microgenres. But what lies out there beyond witch house, and what on Earth does skweee sound like?
(article excerpted, here's the list; descriptions at the link)
...Well, here are 10 genres (we could have nominated about 50) that even mouth-breathing indie record-shop blowhards (full disclosure: I used to be a mouth-breathing indie-record shop blowhard) would be hardpressed to help you find
1. Vaporwave
Check: Food Pyramid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhBg9vAsDGk
2. Blackgaze
Check: Alcest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIEAW65H5o
3. Duranguense
Check: Reencuentro Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmdVmmk-yk
4. Deep filthstep
Check: Denis Mash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSQYhkLbYU
5. Skweee
Check: Baba Stiltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq6KeQLCQpM
6. Fallen angel
Check: Sanctorium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfIxjQWBADg
7. Chalga
Check: Slavena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8kYzNGM9g
8. Charred death
Check: Crow Black Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ra40Pvvy0
9. Laboratorio
Check: "All of them"
Valentin Clastrier au festival NoBorder 02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ftvK1xfs4
10. lowercase
Check: Tetsu Inoue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YoeeNe0swQ
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Yes, but not in the category "music." I think her genre is classified under "sound effects."
I like all kinds of music but my favorite is latino. While I don't understand a word they sing, I can't keep my feet still..........LOL!
I spent two years in Panama, vacationed many times to Honduras and saw lots of night life in both places.
The common theme in both countries seemed to be that the outside bars and warm nights with music were more social events with dancing than sitting around with the guys and getting drunk. Virtually every girl not on the dance floor was approachable and willing to dance with anyone asking them, even me........LOL!
I had wonderful times there.........
Yes.
Rutting chalkboards.
"YEEEEOOOOWWARRRGHHHEEWWWWWWW!!!"
#YOUGOTDABLUES
Silver Apples (1968 album ~32min) (it was a drummer and a man with oscillators singing vocals).
They jammed with Hendrix at their studio in the summer of 69 (both happened to be adapting the Star Spangled Banner at the same time frame for different projects, sadly it's about the only bit of tape that didn't oxidize).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhYsoUSkahg
I call it ‘maraca classic doom gaze step dub’ to fit in with the cool kids. Actually I’m digging it, the next album I purchase.
Freegards
In the 1990s, Foetus/Clint Ruin/(and whatever else he called himself going back to around 1981) recorded something I could best describe as Industrial Big Band (heavily influenced by 1940s Warner Bros cartoons)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0GzEiZYJa0
Let it be said that without Foetus there is no Nine Inch Nails and without NIN there is no Mary Manson (but don’t blame all that on him).
The other tracks on that album/EP cross genres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ldVyfJE6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZFN2HHfPc&list=PLMOtsT-XJoSmBOW1uS7fHbsSpw_rK_5Se&index=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2VTP0rll6g
From a decade earlier...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfygeIxYwuw
I like both kinds of music....country AND western...
I actually only know Foetus from Peter Steele always saying that’s who he was into. I’ll check it out, thanks.
Freegards
BFL
“Psychedelic electronica” I guess you’d call it - “the Simeon” their homemade 8 oscillator synthesizer - was brilliant. That Silver Apples stuff is pretty awesome given the age of the tapes. I wasn’t aware of the Silver Apples in 1974 though - no internet!
I have a friend that tours with the reformed Hawkwind that builds all of his own synths, some really weird ones.
I was very lucky to spot the EMS Synthi AKS for sale in our local newspaper - I bought it for $700.00 - sold by a California couple passing through town who owned two of them. I spotted a Synthi A on ebay a couple years back and it sold for $57,000.00.
“The EMS Synthi A, first available in May 1971, and then in March 1972 a version of it with a built-in keyboard and sequencer, the EMS Synthi AKS, is a portable modular analog synthesiser.”
Most notable for its patch pin matrix - the “pins” are resistors that jack into the board matrix - all done with resistance! The fact that I had one of the first “samplers” drop out of the clear blue sky was amazing to me back when.
My “Grand Ol’ Opry” Dad wondered about my interest in electronic instruments I can tell you.
The history of EMS is well worth reading up on. I wanted a VCS3 way back when I was a young pup in high school, but it was way too expensive and I couldn't play a note. Now I have 3 or 4 vst VCS3s, I would recommend the vcs3 from XILS-Labs or the iVCS3 for the iPad. Both are quite faithful to the original as far as their sound.
While not quite a 100% clone of the original, running multiple vsts at once can approximate a Synthi 100 and I've had over 100 oscillators running at once using SynthEdit.
Thanks for the info - I have Peter Dewald’s emulation synthi - but I will be getting the XILS-Labs vsti - much thanks! The synthi I got from those travelers was the first time I took out a bank loan - man, was I itching to get it and thank God my parents encouraged art and music!
This is what Cage's opus 4'33" brings to mind;
Sitting On a Backyard Fence--Paul Whiteman
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