From charred death to deep filthstep: the 1,264 genres that make modern music

The Guardian ^ | Thursday 4 September 2014 12.30 EDT | Rob Fitzpatrick

[henkster]

Did Yoko Ono get her own genre

Yes, but not in the category "music." I think her genre is classified under "sound effects."

[Hot Tabasco]

But #3 "Reencuentro musical" was fun - disco tejano.

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.........

[Salamander]

Yes.

Rutting chalkboards.

[RansomOttawa]

So it's not enough to just say you sound different from someone else anymore—you actually have to invent a new label for whatever it is you do. Yeesh.

[a fool in paradise]

. It came to me when I was walking in the yard right after the neighbor’s dog had made his daily visit. I thought, “there needs to be a musical style that accurately reflects my emotions right now.”

"YEEEEOOOOWWARRRGHHHEEWWWWWWW!!!"

#YOUGOTDABLUES

[a fool in paradise]

What was Silver Apples' 60s music called?

Silver Apples (1968 album ~32min) (it was a drummer and a man with oscillators singing vocals).

Contact (1969 album ~40min)

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).

Anthem

[Ransomed]

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

[a fool in paradise]

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

[machman]

I like both kinds of music....country AND western...

[a fool in paradise]

Which country?

[Ransomed]

I actually only know Foetus from Peter Steele always saying that’s who he was into. I’ll check it out, thanks.

Freegards

[TrueKnightGalahad]

BFL

[februus]

“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.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Re: Silver Apples Our local record store / TV repair shop had it on vinyl when it first came out. It came with a poster of the Apples set up on the roof of a building in New York City, with some closeups of the Simeon. The oscillators were standard issue audio test equipment (RCA?) that were triggered by Simeon (the human) closing a variety of metal contacts that were attached to his arms and legs. The band and the music were way before it's time.

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.

[februus]

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!

[Fiji Hill]

John Cage named a piece 4’33” and defined a genre unto itself.

This is what Cage's opus 4'33" brings to mind;

[Fiji Hill]

No, that honor goes to the first tomcat that got in a fight with another tomcat out by the back fence.

Sitting On a Backyard Fence--Paul Whiteman