Dear list :every one of those examples reached a wider audience. Face it
Other than surf music , no primarily instrumental music has scored pop hits
regularly. "rockafella Sksnk "at least was catchy. Portishead is the
biggest selling trip hop group for the same reason. What this scene(all the
undergrond dance genres on this list) need is tunes! even in vocalgenre
like speed garage., there is a lack of GOOD tunes. My favorite uk?speed
garagetune is actually the remixof En vogues's "Whatever" rerubbed by TUff
jam(uk). one of the things that struck me about Eurythmics new unplugged
sets is that they demonstrate that their songs started out as tunes
composed on guitar that can make sense apart from the track. I have
mixmags special giveaway cd that came with the most recent issue
spotlighting the scene. It is mostly crap! this stuff will never cross over.
Maybe ebtg had a chancew and ibet they still outsold all the other garage
depp house stuff of the past few years. I bet thier last cd outsold "goldies
"Timeless". Tunes and vocals! Your key to getting recognition.
>From: aspeitia axel arturo barcelo <abarcelo@indiana.edu>
>To: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
>CC: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: RE: FUTURE STATE OF ACID-JAZZ
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 02:23:24 -0500 (EST)
>
>Last night, I was thinking about some examples of dance tracks that after
>becomign successful in the 'undergound' were added English lyrics to
>make them more pallatable to mainstream audiences. I came uo with three
>examples of really cool dance tracks which were turned into pieces of crap
>just by adding inane raps and lyrics: Li'l Louie's 'French Kiss,' 2
>Unlimited's 'Get ready for this,' and Los del Rio vs. Fangoria's
>'Macarena'!
>
>-axel
>
>On Mon, 29 May 2000, Elson Trinidad wrote:
>
> > I think a great deal of it has to do with the fact that most of this
>music
> > is instrumental, or at the very least, has a repeating vocal sample that
> > does or doesn't really make sense at all in the context of the song
>("Right
> > about now...WHAT? Who is this 'Funk Soul Brother' in the first place?)
>And
> > it's clear that mainstream radio/labels want songs with verses and
>choruses
> > and hooks.
> >
> > www.mp3.com.etrinity
> >
> >
>
> :':.:':.:':.:':.:':.:':
> : www.mp3.com/drxl :
> :.:':.:':.:':.:':.:':.:
>
>
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