Max Gudmunson (m_gudmunson@yahoo.com)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:56:18 -0800 (PST)
I think one explanation of independant rock labels
broadening their outlook (i.e. electronic or hiphop
fused projects) is simply that people are getting
bored with traditional rock music. Took 'em long
enough. ;)
Still, these labels/artists/audiences are, for the
most part, conservative in how far they are willing to
go out of rock's boundaries. Most downtempo/acid jazz
is (IMO) very similar to old soul/funk and fusion,
which formed rock as we know it in the first place.
Big Beat, of course, is just rock music produced with
samplers, which is why it's so commercially viable.
The type of Northwest artists who are being discussed
on this thread- icu, Violent Green, Modest Mouse, Land
of the Loops, the Replikants- usually stick to their
own circles, which means you won't be seeing a Derrick
Carter remix of their stuff anytime soon. Generally,
the attitude is "lo-fi or bust." Not coincidentally,
digital hardcore is really coming up on the punk scene
because it's so cheap to make and stresses the same
philosophy.
-max
--- aspeitia axel arturo barcelo
<abarcelo@indiana.edu> wrote:
> It is really interesting how downtempo is attracting
> so much attention
> from indie rockers, at least here in the USA. Kids
> who are into the
> whole Chicago post-rock scene are not only devouring
> the whole WARP!
> records catalog and getting a steady diet of German
> electronica (To Rococo
> Rot, Funkstorung, Pole, Mouse on Mars, etc.) but
> also picking up on Kid
> Loco mostly because of his remixes of people like
> Mogwai, the High Llamas
> and the Pastels. Matador Records is releasing
> hip-hop bands the Arsonists
> and Non Phixion plus Khan Oral's (Turco Loco)
> 1-800-Khan which is all
> downtempo. Up records (a division of Sub Pop)
> is also erasing the
> boundaries between post-rock electronica and what
> this lists calls Acid
> Jazz with bands like Modest Mouse and Violent Green
> (who look live like a
> Punk band but sound on records like a downtempo
> electronica band).
(snip)
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."
- George Bernard Shaw
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