Rolling Dance Partisans 2012

da da da-da da

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQMaUGmEn0&feature=related

Seriously listen to the last minute and a half on that one.

forbidden rhythm =

1   2   3   4
x-x-xx-x-x-xx-x-

super curious why it's forbidden

yup, especially the first half:

1 2 3
x-x-xx-x-

it's like the go-to unfunky clave for fake latin beats. sure it can be voiced well or disguised/extended but i try to stay away from it when possible.

aka 'the white man's rhythm'

is there a link to an mp3 where i can hear that rhythm? i am terrible at reading tab for beats.

It works well in that track.

yeah agreed.

my mind is going blank for classic examples but i will post one when i think of it.

Those mala tracks sound great. I was wondering what he's been up to, so bring on the album.

I guess I should listen to those Mala tracks now. I only had time to listen to one track before I left for work and I was intrigued by the forbidden rhythm, which now that I think of it, might be kind of similar to a montuno rhythm in how it switches from on- to off-beat?

ha ok, here is an audio example of the forbidden rhythm: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h3JFEfdK_Ls#t=145s

don't know why that didn't embed, but check the piano lick in chorus of billy joel's 'my life'.

ha

I think the difference is it being just one layer of polyrhythm in the Swindle versus being the sole point of rhythmic interest in the Billy Joel.

can't believe nobody's ever sampled the first minute of that billy joel track, never heard that part before

oh, you're just talking about the hat rhythm at the beginning of the swindle track?

bum bum badabum bum?

can't believe nobody's ever sampled the first minute of that billy joel track, never heard that part before

had the same thought

oh, you're just talking about the hat rhythm at the beginning of the swindle track?

nah, the main handclap rhythm that comes in at :38 and then gets passed around to the bass > synths > everything

heh that rhythm is quite overused in grime

i mean ffs how often do you hear a wide-open break like that?

re: billy joel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqTz2mMwNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDNrvZI7jkc

Billy Joel and the Great Forbidden Rhythm Swindle.

http://www.djtechtools.com/2012/06/17/the-age-of-the-edm-rockstar/

Finding the sudden popularity of "EDM" sort of depressing, but not nearly as depressing as all the crappy articles popping up in my Facebook page. This doesn't feel like winning.

Let's combine all the worst excesses of disco, rave and festival cultures and call it a trend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZDF7nqCF0

Need some easy listening music to relax.

super bangin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBo0ZlVIbZw

This might have a little crossover with the Interzone Bubblers thread, but the new LOL Boys Enter the Unknown mix for UTTU is pretty stunning: http://boomkat.com/cds/533842-lol-boys-enter-the-unknown

It's got a lot of stuff going on in the mix but what strikes me most is how it reminds me a lot of 92/93 hardcore.

"Moments In Heartbreak" sounded better the first time I heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4j52okTgO8&feature=related

But yeah, UTTU really is a great label.

some nice rave vibe here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJtq5oL8Q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4aEvXZGwAo&feature=player_embedded

Sonic the Hedgehog grime with Atlanta inspired snares.

I absolutely refuse anything that wasn't made in Atlanta "trap" music.

you're in for a fun year then

Currently holding my hands over my ears and yelling "La La La".

purely and simply music for dickheads

Generally I prefer Slackk's slightly housier productions to his stiff, stop-start grime-influenced bits but Blue Sleet has grown on me a lot, I like the way it builds up.

it's a fun little tune, doesn't seem especially "trap"-influenced to me compared to a lot of 2012 productions.

i love the new Airhead joint ("pyramid lake").

the best thing about that video is the old school cgi which of course they fail to credit

http://www.nataliastuyk.com

My first attempt at 3D - an aerial odyssey over mountains, cities and mirrored deserts for Slackk's track Blue Sleet, produced by Local Action Records.

WUT WUT WUT WUT~~~

^ I get your point (erm or at least I think I do) but I feel that with Slackk and a lot of other recent stuff that draws on early grime the point is that it's done as an almost scholarly exercise you're supposed to recognize the reference points. To me it's almost the dance/electronic equivalent of 'record-collection rock', where informed listeners will take pleasure in spotting all the classic building blocks and the way they've recombined.
In general I think a lot of the fans of Night Slugs and stuff with a similar aesthetic value it because it combines elements of stuff they were already into - grime, r&b, US regional club genres - and the fact that they've managed to achieve critical and dancefloor popularity with those elements feels to the long-termers like a kind of vindication.

Obv there's loads of projection and supposition in this argument - part of prob comes from my online interaction with Slackk who in his tasted comes over as an almost obsessively 'proper grime' kind of guy so it's hard not to see his doing genre exercises like this as an act of tribute on his part, paying homage to his roots. And obv the response will vary from listener to listener, and there will be some people out there going 'woah this is so fresh, how on earth did he come up with such striking synth and drum sounds?' in which case yeah you're perfectly entitled to point them straigh to things like the TNT mix (which I'm banging out right now).

Should be 'scholarly exercise where you're supposed to', posting in a bit of a rush.
More generally I admire the certainty and purity of your tastes in these things, but for better or worse it's not how I am, if I were to draw lines with that degree of confidence it would feel dishonest.

i think rtc is mad because an online music magazine called slackk "future grime"

Nah, nah, he's hyper-grime. Intelligent grime for dickheads, right?

g^2

I think I may agree with Lex in that Ikonika's newest overshadows this one considerably, similar sound palette.

Still the CGI is cool, and 99% of juke/trap/whatever coming out of the UK is just annoying.

i'm surprised it's contemporary cgi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HzyUHxmkg0&feature=relmfu

Ehhh.