Rolling Dance Partisans 2012

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.

Lunice, sounding like a twat

“(Mohawke) was saying, a lot of people on major labels, they know we’re around. They’re very well aware of us, but don’t even bother trying to contact us. They just straight frickin’ rob us, almost. I wouldn’t say ‘rob’ – (they) just get the idea, then get another producer to do it. And for a while we were like, ‘Whatever, we’ve got our own little scene going, I don’t mind and it’s all good”. But after that we were like, “Okay, okay, hold up, it’s getting a little too obvious!”

“We didn’t think about breaking in fully until we did the TNGHT project together, and the response we got from rappers from that. We were like, “You know what? Let’s just straight bring it in. Straight bring it in. We’ve been doing this shit for years, and it’s not like we’re new or anything, it’s not like we’re new money shit, it’s not like we came out of the blue and we blew up like crazy. We’ve built a whole foundation of our work. So it’s about that time. I feel like that sort of movement is backed with all of our homies together, like: “This is us! You can’t do this shit! You can’t just take our ideas and come up with it all after all these years. We’re coming for you!’ (Laughs). That kind of thing.”

xxxp eh i am nothing like a tru grime soldier and couldnt really give a stuff how it gets dressed up these days. grime lifers are p much the worst tbh

just inchoate contempt and eye-rolling for chillwave 8bar and the wonderful world of fact music debasing every currency available as usual is all

i know i shouldve been grown up enough to resist straying onto this terre mavaise again

nngh mauvaise even

never misspell the 10 cent word, kids

at least they're unapologetic/direct about wanting to make rap beats and do production work for mainstream vocalists, that's kind of refreshing.

who would want to apologize for making $$$$$ is what i want to know

i was more talking about the "they're stealing our ideas" bit

Didn't Kanye just commission a remix from them?

dunno? Mohawke contributed "additional instruments" to "Mercy"

who would want to apologize for making $$$$$ is what i want to know

i mean wanting to engage with u.s. rap artists rather than just making their own insular/instrumental version of it.

i was more talking about the "they're stealing our ideas" bit

yeah that's ridiculous. i don't doubt that lots of u.s. producers are aware of them, but clearly a ton of ideas have flowed the other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETdeV8nvmVs&feature=player_embedded#!

I guess this is what I was thinking of, just an edit.

On a brighter note, Eprom's take on this sound is kind of more my thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-RXu_pDFQ

is that danton eeprom?

I don't know if any of you follow SergDun on twitter but his rants about "nerds ruining trap" have been entertaining.

No, I think this guy is Bay Area.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=h0_rY4_rbkQ

this is the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVjfKuN3TM

also v. good in a similar vein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DymGi9f7g

I love Shigeto, thanks for the heads up on that one. You're the Jordan that lives in Madison, right?

yup - are you in town?

Yeah, I thought it was funny that we both listen to and make the same general kinds of music in the same city and haven't ever met.

Unless you hang out at the DJ shop or know Wyatt Agard, I used to go to his Ableton classes.

yeah that is crazy given what a small town this is, although i don't go out to a ton of shows/dj nights unless i'm playing or a friend is. i might have met wyatt once through my friend nate, but don't know him.

we should hang though, lemme know if you have a gig coming up or whatever.

I pretty much gave up deejaying when I started to get serious about making beats again, I've got the Traktor setup but its been gathering dust for a while.

Need to get back on that horse soon, I guess.

word. we should probably take it off-thread but i've been doing Chants shows at least monthly, come say hi sometime!

this Arca record is inspiring