Wankiest musical genre?

[fudgefactorfive]

What other cultures do you indigeniously understand enough to comment on?

what, I have to live there to talk about it?

bleeptastic

 

[fudgefactorfive]

what do you like? dnb?

no, that's a fucking horrible noise, like being stuck in a metal dustbin rolling downhill

i could stand trance and some techno when i'm completely off my face, but then, nothing really matters when you're off your face, i could dance to a lorry reversing in that state

 

[fudgefactorfive]

anyhow, i've said my bit, off now to listen to some fascist overlord oppressing the masses with his pan pipes

 

[sleaterkinney]

fff, sleaterkinney: decry techno/anything made on computers at your peril. electronically produced music is the future.

i agree with chin dildo - lyricism is often proportional to wankery

I wasn't, I am heavily into techno, dnb, dubstep, lots of stuff, and it is just as valid and good music as anything else. If anything it is better than traditional music because nowadays it is more original and new, besides the same old stuff repeated again and again.
I was laughing at it the idea that techno is modern day folk music made by wc people.

 

[Pigeon]

jazz-punk

Away n shite.

James Chance? Pop Group? Defunkt?

 

[Belushi]

Got to be acid jazz. Thank fuck that's one genre that's died a death. Stuff like fucking Corduroy and JTQ. Shitty crap for people too uncool to be 'funky' by themselves, they have to put this shit on and stand their clicking their fingers to look 'funky' and 'cool'

Innit.

I'm not keen on things like Indie or Folk, but theres at least some good asongs come out of those genres, I've never heard any Acid Jazz that wasnt utter, utter wank.

 

[Bazza]

what I especially love about popular electronic dance music is the way you get these proliferations of subdivisions that only a tiny minority of metaphorically-beardy DJ geeks pretend to understand

so you have hard trance, psychedelic trance, goa trance, hard house, handbag house, progressive house, deep house, trance techno, techno trance, trancey trance and housey house

all of it representing a marathon of wanking to cover up the fact that most of it barely qualifies as actual "music" in a huge sloping mound of jism

I love certain "subdivisions" of dance music and hate others, I also DJ...I have to say though, this post hits the nail on the head pretty well.

Turntablists aside and creative DJs, lets be honest, DJing is an absolute piece of piss.

A few years ago, 200 dance records were being released a week. It's bound to have rapdily risen....which explains why I can spend over an hour in a record shop and come out with nothing.

 

[Pigeon]

I've never heard any Acid Jazz that wasnt utter, utter wank.

The Sandals were good.

 

[DrRingDing]

Turntablists aside and creative DJs, lets be honest, DJing is an absolute piece of piss.

So is knocking out a few simple chords on a guitar.

 

[Dubversion]

Turntablists aside and creative DJs, lets be honest, DJing is an absolute piece of piss.

i dunno if that's true - skills aside, surely there's a real talent in reading a crowd, selecting the right tune for the right moment, that sorta thing?

 

[lights.out.london]

Turntablists aside and creative DJs, lets be honest, DJing is an absolute piece of piss.

I'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye, but I do so love throwing this one out at my mates who have decks at home.

Lights Out - let's have a go on yer record player.

Mates - fuck off

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't think DJing, ie actual beat matching is a piece of piss - it takes some skill

 

[Belushi]

Lights Out - let's have a go on yer record player.

Mates - fuck off

And dont forget to refer to the sound system as a mobile disco

 

[Bazza]

OK, maybe I was going a bit too far. Dubversion makes a good point as to me the most important skill is reading a crowd and track selection. However, if you're a music obsessive, have an open mind and know your stuff, even that's not going to be the hardest thing in the world.

Regarding dance music though, playing loud music to a crowd of drugged up people isn't exactly rocket science though is it?

Chin Dildo, it did take me years to master the art of beat-matching, however, that was with hip hop......I found it to be very simple with house and other dance as records were made to be DJ friendly. However, that put me in good stead for mixing hip hop.

It irks me it when people who don't DJ rant on about someone like Sasha who is great because he mixes "in key".....give me the likes of Derrick Carter and Jeff Mills going beserk anyday.

 

[Orang Utan]

That's because Sasha plays boring records and mixes them so smoothly, that's it just one long snoozathon

 

[Bazza]

and you'd have to be a spanner to not be able to mix many of those records.

Regressive house. Always reminds me of clubs with a 9:1 boy/girl ratio.

 

[lights.out.london]

And dont forget to refer to the sound system as a mobile disco

Aw! You got it! You know my lame blag...

I also ask them if they have strobe or if Mate #1 nods and Mate #2 runs to the light switch and furiously turns it on/off. Lmao.

No wonder they wouldn't let me come clubbing with them last time I asked. I think it was the fear of me asking the Disc Jockey if s/he had any Metallica or Motorhead, as "that's pretty hard core, innit?"

 

[Orang Utan]

and you'd have to be a spanner to not be able to mix many of those records.

Regressive house. Always reminds me of clubs with a 9:1 boy/girl ratio.

Well call me a spanner then - I've tried beat matching and it's too hard for me.

 

[milesy]

Well call me a spanner then - I've tried beat matching and it's too hard for me.

you need commitment, time and patience. which i haven't really got. so i gave up after a year or so of trying to get to a reasonable level. and as for making music on a PC - same thing, it's not just a case of pressing a key and voila you come up with an ace tune - you need to work at it, you need to have skill and talent and creativity. same as with "traditional" instruments.

 

[Bazza]

Well call me a spanner then - I've tried beat matching and it's too hard for me.

Well....it's not an overnight kind of thing so apologies for sounding patronising. Perhaps I take it for granted as I've done it for so long and I do remember wondering if I'd ever get the hang of it. You'll master it though and once you do it's like riding a bike.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm gonna get Ableton eventually and save me the bother!

 

[RockandorRoll]

Innit.

I've never heard any Acid Jazz that wasnt utter, utter wank.

Not that i'm a big fan of the genre, but apparently cissy strut (the version with jaco pastorious in) counts. And thats a bitching song..

 

[Brother Mouzone]

Prog.

Defend and be forever damned.

Progressive House?