just listen to old music
Also good advice. I just got a 2CD set by Anthony Braxton, originally released in 1991, and it's great.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
how do actual us rap djs play actual us rap these days?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
It feels as a wrong scene when the whole point is to find music unblemished by PR, but discovering K-pop was as electric an experience as any I've had. Later replicated by delving into afro-beats/azonto/afropop/pop-music-mostly-from-anglophone-West-Africa-but-now-also-quite-a-lot-from-francophone-West-Africa-or-even-from-East-Africa-yay-Sauti-Sol or whatever you want to call it. In other words, I think there are as many scenes as before to dive into, they're just located somewhere else. Or they're digital, like NON or Quantum Natives or something like that. But they exist.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
my question was where!!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
also idk what it'll take to be sold on kpop but i think short of learning korean ive yet to 'get it'
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:21 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
through serato?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
im not really clear on what that question is. there are lots of rap djs in every major city in america
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), 17. april 2018 22:44 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sure :) Just a general observation. If you want my best advice, it would be to follow the rolling afro-pop thread on this board, that's kinda keeping me alive through rainy days.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
just responding to your "but never like actual us rap DJs" - i interpreted it as "but never like actual us rap DJs do" but I'm guessing now you meant that the djs who were playing rap were not actual us rap djs, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
yah just that they never book them, it all feels much more filtered through a uk lens (w/ a couple exceptions)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
I guess because most of those internet stations are located in London, although NTS has an L.A. studio too.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
American House and Techno DJs have huge inbuilt audiences in the UK, tour here all the time, etc. - US Hip-Hop DJs not so much.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
its funny my favorite records of 2018 are Andrew W.K. and Cornelius. these are old acts i followed for around 20 years by now.
i'm never one to listen to the new popular stuff. i've never heard an Arcade Fire album. there are some acts i follow but mostly i am interested in listening to recorded music. there is so much music already made, made in a time when it was way more demanding to make and record music, incredible things just waiting to be discovered. i love discovering classic albums i am only just getting around to hearing, like Cheap Trick's debut.
as for current pop music, i never know what to expect, what really excites me is the internet, the idea that someone could create a song so massive that it becomes a global phenomenon. a song detached from the previous music industry, which doesn't need promotion or payola to become popular, a song that blows up and isn't just a one-day meme but a globally recognized Classic Song. the post-internet global market is new, it may only be a matter of time before someone strings together the right chords/words/sound combinations.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
The rolling experimental misfit thread is really good rn, interesecting a bit with a lot of things mentioned here (non records, sounds of sisso comp)
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
Music with a spring in its step, its hat askew, and a glint in its eye. long raking passes into dream state also allowed.
― saer, Saturday, 12 May 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
I was super into music with a spring in its step, its hat askew, and a glint in its eye in 2016 but lately the scene seems a bit tired.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
This thread was a pretty good predictor of my tastes this year
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 3 January 2021 07:37 (three years ago) link
How about another vibe check on this.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 10:36 (one year ago) link
agreed
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 15 June 2023 07:52 (ten months ago) link
Coupe Decalé is the most out-there "whoa I haven't heard anything like this" music I've heard in recent times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2jjSf2T2kc
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:55 (ten months ago) link
francophone africa seems to consistently produce great & unique sounds
― ufo, Thursday, 15 June 2023 10:53 (ten months ago) link
I still think this stuff is really excitingThraed of Nigerian Cruise / Freebeat
I find it a little weird how 'the west' seems more interested in dj tobzy imole giwa than dj yk mule, considering the latter is clearly bigger & more central to the sound locally. feels like outsiders getting into whats Weird instead of whats good. Not that weird is bad
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link