Re: the name game
Ninja Tune/Discreet (ninjah@generation.net)
Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:39:36 -0400
>
>Dear List:
>Im ticked off at the guy who got angry at the person who
>used the word "down-tempo. " Add that to the fact that many of
>these same people hate the word trip-hop , and you have a situation
>where people atre mad at any label you use for the slow
>(mostly), instumental break beat music ,with odd noises
>&scratching that we all have come to love.
>When I first heard this stuff on a mix-tape consisting of
>Mowax(Infux era), Cleanup and Dorado(dub mixes) in '93 . "I said
>this stuff's like (jamaican)Dub only with afro-american influences
>instead of warped reggae tracks. I called it funk dub or dub funk
>then I heard the t-word. It fit and it was being used in print . But
>noooo! this word was being trashed opartially because it lumped in
>the c-bros(dust then) and the Wall of sound gang who were faster and
>rockier. Plus there was .... something -- people just hated the word
>. Shadow says "Im hip-hop period." Tricky trashes all labels.
>
>Well,let me say that labels help to define as well as limit
>genres-usually in turn. still this music needs some name; how can you
>ask the guy at the wrecka-sto for more of "that stuff" . How can you
>buy blind when the stuff isnt grouped under some heading in the rack.
>Sure you can buy everyting on some imprints(any mowax) but hey, that can
>get you into trouble(Andrea parker, the Excursions series) . F#$@!
>it call it something d*****mit
>
>markeg@hotmail.com
Ninja Theory # 18 : TripHoptimism - used to be a bad word. Feeling of
euphoria experienced by those in the here and now; state of mind obtained
by Ninjas able to see beyond categorisation.
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