Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

and dogg latin, to respond to your question, i think Salem can stumble across Boards Of Canada stuff, but it's not because they're sitting down with a laptop and being sound alchemists; its because dumb idiots who accidentally found an ambient preset in between smoking their cigarettes and staring blindly at their gear [see attached video]

wouldn't 'white crunk' be like sevendust or something

i love that Boards Of Canada song where dude is like all

SHE SAY I DOW WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALLLOOOOONNNNEEEE

no never mind, i take that back, i'm not getting into this

xp

okay, (ftr, I didn't wiki "screw music", it's not something I'm heavily into, but I am familiar with it) - Salem are influenced by screw, this is apparent. They are not screw though. Hell, I don't even believe they're hiphop. I'm just saying, there are many more things going on in King Night than simply a bunch of white guys making bad screw music. And while your post about BoC is also being facetious, it's missing the point too.

"making screw", LOL!

there are many more things going on in King Night than simply a bunch of white guys making bad screw music

hahah, this is basically where we're gonna disagree, so we should probably let some other people have the floor

there is really nothing more going on in King Night than simply a bunch of white guys making bad screw music -- but it turned out kind of interesting!

"dumb idiots who accidentally found an ambient preset in between smoking their cigarettes and staring blindly at their gear" is the majority of punky/new-wave/industrial electronic music anyway. Is it not acceptable to say that comparing Salem to just Screw is the same as comparing them to Cabaret Voltaire or whoever?

xpost, haha, sure thing Whiney - I'm not going to defend this band anymore - it's an okay album, but just okay.

AFA screw is concerned though, Whiney what should I check out, as I'm interested?

i love that Boards Of Canada song where dude is like all

SHE SAY I DOW WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALLLOOOOONNNNEEEE

loooooooool A+

doglat,

My personal fave is David Banner's Mississippi: The Album screwed and chopped version, which had a commercial release. Obviously DJ Screw is the king of this stuff, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pretend to be all Byron Coley about his 200+ releases, hahaha.

I like screwed and chopped music. I find the songs on the Salem album where the guy raps painful in almost every way.
I love many of the songs on the Salem album (the guy only raps on two of them, right?) - nobody would be talking about screw if the album was all like Redlights and Frost.

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did you make that?

;-)

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i'm guessing "thanks to god"?, but not ruling out "the tile guy" or "turkish trade guide."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT9C1GaBoDw

ah. ty.

so, i've been listening to this stuff a lot b/c...well, i read XLR8R's interview on the toilet the other day (i am a staff writer for them), and i was like, 'i've never really given their recordings a chance after that terrible show in brooklyn last january.' i like Redlights, but i really don't understand how people could like the album or anything else by them. yeah, it's kind of an original mashing of several sounds, but it is so TOTALLY FUCKING BORING and studied in its cynicism that i find it somewhat terrifying that they're '''''popular'''''.

i think cynical is the right word. Like if you watch the Fader Fort videos, this is literally a band with no passion, no ability, no drive and no ideas. They are an IDEA of a band more than a band. There's nothing to the music and were marketed and elevated solely on "hipster cool" to the pitchfork gen the same way that "party cool" is marketed to Ke$ha fans. I'm sincerely fucking embarrassed for 20somethings that chose this over emocore.

they're playing santos next week, I think i'm gonna go just becaause. never heard anything by them, should i listen first or let their LIVE SHOW be my FIRST IMPRESSION

is literally a band with no . . . ideas.

not sure how this can be true, if in fact, this band's sound is a "unique mashup of the basic elements of other genres." see, e.g., comments upthread. to be clear, that doesn't mean they're good, but it means they have ideas, or at least one noteworthy idea.

http://bit.ly/bQCqTK

trust me, i saw them at Glasslands last january and it was fucking abysmal.

then, three days later, i saw Teengirl Fantasy, Light Asylum, and Blondes play at Monster Island a few blocks away, and it was fucking awesome.

just sayin-- there are a lot of groups out there who are actually putting effort and energy into their sound.

Brainwasher that would be a rad experiment, plz report back

hahaha

xp to instant salem mashup

i wonder if part of salem's appeal is that their one idea IS so easily to replicate.

Whiney killin' it in this thread.

our choices are salem or emocore now? shit.

Whiney killin' it in this thread.

Yeah, that time he told somebody who disagreed with him to "eat me" was classic.

Was obviously referring to the Salem insta-mashup posted 10 minutes prior.

i have a kneejerk "yeah but you like sleigh bells" reaction to every whiney post in this thread

i detest pretty much every indie hype act of 2010 but salem are basically acceptable to me. i can well believe they're horrendous live but who cares about that.

sleigh bells at least have a creative aesthetic

"jangly indie mess w/bad singing" is no more creative an aesthetic than "screwy synths turned up to 100"

at least salem are effective in a basic kind of way when they get their sound right (whoever the post-gig dj was played "king night" tonight (after "whip my hair" o_0 ) - it sounded good! and big!)

bring back friendly ilxor imo, we have enough whinyeasayers to fill a tollbooth & that's plenty

haha lex defending this is basically the essence of my least favorite lex characteristics

rockism redrawn with synths in place of guitars and advertised as popism

oh great the gang's all back again

rockism redrawn with synths in place of guitars and advertised as popism
--trollin trollin trollin we aint slept in weeks (deej)

Screwming post

there's some weight to describing Salem as "shallow" and "obvious" but reducing this album to shitty hip-hop for indie kids is tantamount to admission of deafness imo

<3 that the Wikipedia entry "Rockism" cites Momus

Yeah we really needed a more elegant name for relativism. Thank u, "rockism".

i feel like the salem album was really easy to like when i first heard it. i didn't have to struggle with it. it just sounded cool to me. i didn't know anything about them. I STILL don't know much about them. i doubt i would go see them live if i had the chance. there is way better stuff to spend money on. i think druggy goth + beats is something that just agrees with me. i don't listen to anything like this though, so i'm not burnt out on hyped bloggy kid stuff. i'm just thankful to get a cd in the mail that i can listen to more than once. and i did think about, um, music and stuff when i was listening to it. it's a rock critic-y kind of record. and thinking is good, right?

bring back friendly ilxor imo, we have enough whinyeasayers to fill a tollbooth & that's plenty

Who, me??

O_O

does the lex like we are the world? (on the same label as salem)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrnTY9_KMQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLFzqlz4hsM&feature=related

jesus, the IAMSOUND roster is like across the board shit

* The Black Ghosts
* Suckers
* Telepathe
* Little Boots
* Sunny Day Sets Fire
* Cut Off Your Hands
* Florence and the Machine
* Get Shakes
* Men Women & Children
* Nico Vega
* The Slips
* Fool's Gold
* thecocknbullkid
* SALEM

Actually, I'll fuck with a little Florence/Machine and Telepathe, but Suckers and Little Boots are like ughhhhhhh. And Fool's Gold is zzzzz. And fuck whatever "thecocknbullkid" is

you've hEARD all those people? no wonder you are so sad about salem.