On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Phonopsia wrote: > Alright, I used the "s" word.... :) > > I listened to the new set on Betalounge from 7/28 yesterday, with Don > Shtone, > Mannequin Lunge and Jan Jelinek. There's some straight hip hop with really > nice > lush beats in there. I'm way removed from the hip hop world these days. I'm > curious > about what some of it might be. If I'm tracking it down right, it's going on > around the 2-hour mark and moves about from there for at least an hour. Is > this a new, new school?
There's a sound coming out from Britain called "2-step." Only reason I'm familiar with it is that there is somebody on MTV with a 2-step video. Like a mixture of Usher and....I don't know, Steve Hurley or something. > This stuff segues from there into what I can only describe as slow > electronic soul. It has sort of a heavilly electronic hip-hop flavor with > beautiful vocals. All of this stuff interests me a lot and I have no idea > where it comes from or what to call it. It's distinct from what I'm hearing > out of the West London New School sound, although both evoke > the same return to an older variety of soul or funk for me. More of a direct > link up with that sound than what we'd normally think of from techno, but > very techno in spirit. Sorry for being so vague and non-descript. These are > the best words I can come up with to describe these sounds. Is the West London sound what I was referring to above? > I'm hearing a lot of these sounds on the betalounge these days. Beyond all > of this, is anyone else noticing a really prominent focus on musicality > versus minimalism in 2001? I feel like people are putting a lot more effort > into writing music these days. It's really prominent in deep house, and > seems to be infecting everything else. I've noticed this too. A LOT of the sets I'm listening to now have got a strong and deep musical component to them. A lusher disco sound. I'd imagine that we've now got a generation of kids who are now djs...and their ears are very sophisticated and they need more than NO WAY BACK. So they made it themselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
