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English punk e.g. Yelowcard, Amber pacific, etc.
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English punk e.g. Yelowcard, Amber pacific, etc.
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Lady Gaga??Originally Posted by Knoxville
Look at my avatar and take a wild guess
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Classic.
But if you'll excuse me, I'm now going to retire to a discrete distance, and hide behind a large, solid object. Like a main battle tank.
Or better yet, Saturn.
As for favourite genre? I don't really have one. In 'pop' terms, anything from skiffle to about mid 80s. Well, not anything , by virtue of there being a lot of garbabe in there too, but much later than that is more of a passing notice than real interest. It's about when I gave up listening to music radio much .... except classical.
Oh, and I like a lot of classical, but by no means all. And, some forms of jazz, but a LOT is just a discordant cacophony to me. Opera? Some, but not that much.
My favourite genre is Soul music as quality is timeless. Listened also to Jazz-Funk, P Funk, Funk, Latin Jazz, Jazz, Upfront, Go-Go, early House and Garage. One of the biggest disappointments from the last world cup was not hearing more Brazillian Jazz music. Shocking to hear Stevie Wonder's A star is born for the BBC's world cup theme. Well this is what happens when you have tory run corporation lacking in ideas!
I wish modern artists would stop sampling music I listen to in order to give themselves musical credibility. No pop tune would ever enter my music collection.
You know swaves of the best Opera and Classical music draw heavily upon each other, fashion creates that kind of gravitation of ideas. The fact is the vast majority of modern music isn't sampling, sure you have stuff like Daft Punk, which whilst isn't to everyones cup of tea, I still think Discovery is a brilliant album. It's in effect just samples of existing music with vocoding.
The fact that a lot of Jazz in particular is playing with themes, some of these you know because they are famous, some are things that just make sense I enjoyed reading http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Mathem.../dp/0199298939 where they rather elegantly and rather simplistically, lay out the beauty of the maths behind the music, the datonic and pentatonic scales all have a very distinct beauty in maths, but have appeared throughout so many cultures, there is obvious beauty we've evolved to appreciate. There is a theory, that in the same way we appreciate symmetry as a means of showing genetic accuracy, we appreciate the other natural patterns and ratios.
Given this predisposition, there are certain things that just sound right to use, they have the symmetry, this is why with something fairly simple like the A Train, people who had not heard it before, would like someones jazz interpretation, but not someone playing completely random notes. There has to be the beauty to the pattern. This is true for say drum n base, it's the same techniques, we know what available patterns there are, and we want to be teased, held on the edge of climax. So with sampling it's the same kind of thing, just rather than being a stanza that you are hammering out on a panio, it's a sample. That doesn't diminish the skill, we don't lambaste pianists for not being skilled like violinists... Well actually every musicians bar I've been in they do that to each other, but no one seriously means it.
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Biscuit (09-08-2014)
I strongly suspect Daft Punk was heavily influenced by the club music scene in the late 70s and early 80s. Vocoding isn't exactly a new concept either. Bands like Zapp and One Way used them to great effect in the 80s. Daft Punk is okay but it wouldn't enter my music collection. As for sampling, I do have an in-depth knowledge of soul, jazz and funk music up to the 90s so I know straight when modern bands sample music or not. I guess in your case case wouldn't know unless someone told you.
I do agree there is a link between maths and music. So you haven't told me any thing new here.
Interestingly, I remember a James Brown interview where he described all aspects of all black contemporary dance music as a derivative of funk.
Now that you mention it I do like a bit of Bleedarazzi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU63P50ag0c
I tend to be into most of the 80's stuff, especially Nu Romantic stuff like Haircut 100, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, ABC and so many others. Also like U2's stuff from the 80's before they went weird with Achtung Baby, just tuned out after that one.
Three days grace.
A day to remember
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Hence the name of that album. It was about music that had shaped and defined them growing up. Made with the fashions of the time. In the same way Jazz played around, evolved, with existing music to create something that was contemporary.
Well that's a fairly big assumption, and you know what people say about those! The point I was trying to bring in, is do people complain about someone using a key on a keyboard to generate the music when it's hammering a string, is it different when it's a pulse down a wire, a loop. Whilst like anyone who has played a real instrument it's effortless for me to tell synth from real, it doesn't mean synth has no place. They are just different points of the same spectrum.
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Music takes places back in my life. So from punk to ska to reggae to cheesy Aus rock to I dunno. I've not found anything new for a while.
Trouble is I keep meeting music nazis who disparage what ever I happen to be listening to at the time. I have to admit to loving some Beethoven 9th on the car. Ode to Joy cranked high !
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
I guess this argument is akin to those who like their Dr Dre headphones and claiming they offer great sound quality despite the fact that an audiophile grade headphones are so much better.
Not sure where you're going with the synth argument as if I didn't grow up listening to them. All what I'm saying is that there is a world of difference compared to the pioneer musicians to the copy and paste generation.
I'm afraid the modern cut & paste music generation doesn't offer me musical integrity in any shape or form. I think the reason behind this is that marketing has replaced quality. Where singers are chosen for their looks rather than their vocal ability and the cut & paste technicians are chosen for their ability to identify with their genre.
Don't want to get into a music era slanging match, but the sampling thing feels like a lazy generalization. Same as Depeche Mode aren't real musicians from ageing 70s rockers back in the early 80s. Sure there are lazy sampler types. But, say, Skrilex is SO much more than a lazy computer generated rehash. Or listened to Gary Numan's last few albums in the noughties? What about the Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The Kills?
Every generation has unoriginal tat. In the 80s we had bland consumer American hair metal. 90s we had every bloke with an Atari ST being a dance producer. Noughties we had TV show generated instant pop-stars. Now we have gym dance remix artists. All suck.
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