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We're snowed in here, and my girlfriend has been watching downloads of "Skins" all day on the computer, so there's fuck all else to do. Might as well turn an email thread only of interest to me into a blog post.
I usually feel like I have a pretty good grasp of what the fuck is going on, but you can never be sure in this age of made up trend names and phony sub-sub-sub genres, so I asked my one DJ buddy who reads the List for an impromptu tutorial on the brand new esoteric electronic shits I'm supposed to be able to talk about now. I still don't have a clue, but I do know that this Girl Unit Wut is blasting my dome off, so go check it out yesterday if you haven't already.
Here's the rest of the shit I'm going to pretend to like for the next few months based on his recommendations:
Wonky Weirdstep
James Blake's CMYK
Technoz
John Roberts' Glass Eights
Modern 'Purple' Dubstep
Girl Unit's WUT
Heartfelt Tropicalia "But not wack like Vampire Weekend," he says.
Tanlines' Real Life
BONUS:
Memory Tapes' Seek Magic "This album is a major grower," he says. "Insert dick joke here."
What kind of blog do you think this is, sir!?
So what else do clueless people like me and my mom need to know?
"Dubstep started with shit like Skream's "Midnight Request Line," which was the first dubstep song I'd ever heard, and was actually dub influenced using elements like delay and speed to change the way people were moving on the dancefloor."
"Then it ended up in the shitter like with Flux Pavilion's "I Can't Stop" which is now termed 'bro step.'"
"It's basically like drum and bass, the outsider genre that got co-opted by everyone and their social worker in the UK and is totally played out there. It's still an oddity in the US and I suspect it will remain so."
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5 comments:
take that shit off the list, if you will.
That Girl Unit track is for real.
Everything you said is wrong.
why bother
That doesn't sound like something the real Cadillac Macelroyce would type.
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