Good genre
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:07 am
so i don't know if this forum limb is strictly for what you listen to music on, in which case i'm going to ruin every chance of ever being in that club by saying that i listen to my music on a computer with 12 dollar speakers that plug into my usb port and the headphone jack. it's not pretty by many people's standards including my former and hopefully soon to be again boss, but at this point working part time and trying to pull together a move back to the other side of the country and hopefully meeting the love of my life all over again; trying to find something decent to listen to music on has taken a back seat.
i've been listening to a certain genre recently that's given a swing to my step and fortunately it's quality can't be influenced by the addition of tuned thousand dollar speakers with an tube amplifier of some kind.
electronic swing!
this is a movement that as far as i can tell that is becoming popular and it started in France of all places, and for the most part started back near around 2005 2006 ish. for the longest time my only knowledge of this genre or movement of music was through parov stelar, he's some guy over in Europe doing his electronic swing thing with amazingly good quality tracks such as; "booty swing, monster (album image nsfw), catgroove, chambermaid swing," and many more. i learned of a new group very recently though, if i understand right they are domestic to the united states; "caravan palace" takes the idea, brings it down a dark alley, then promptly mugs it for all it's worth. somehow it turned out really good in all that mess so if you listened to parov and want more then caravan palace is your group.
however i haven't been able to find more groups and individuals that are based around the techno swing genre, i've found some fantastic singles like "DJ shadows organ donor" which is a fantastically written techno piece with a b****in church organ playing in the foreground. granted it might not strictly be considered swing at this point, but i think that for how awesome and fantastic classical, jazz, and swing is by theirselves, they are not detracted in any manner by the addition of a few techno beats, beeps and the odd guitar squawks.
one thing yielded by putting these artists as seeds into pandora radio is the Yoshida brothers out of japan, they've brought their three stringed oriental instrument into this century without dishonoring it in the slightest by putting it in the back ground: it's in the foreground of the music where it belongs. unfortunately though trying to put all these people into pandora radio brings up a lot of dubstep. as everybody knows dubstep is the death of music so be ye warned; 3 hours wasted looking on youtube might be worth it when the alternative is listening to freaking dubstep.
i've been listening to a certain genre recently that's given a swing to my step and fortunately it's quality can't be influenced by the addition of tuned thousand dollar speakers with an tube amplifier of some kind.
electronic swing!
this is a movement that as far as i can tell that is becoming popular and it started in France of all places, and for the most part started back near around 2005 2006 ish. for the longest time my only knowledge of this genre or movement of music was through parov stelar, he's some guy over in Europe doing his electronic swing thing with amazingly good quality tracks such as; "booty swing, monster (album image nsfw), catgroove, chambermaid swing," and many more. i learned of a new group very recently though, if i understand right they are domestic to the united states; "caravan palace" takes the idea, brings it down a dark alley, then promptly mugs it for all it's worth. somehow it turned out really good in all that mess so if you listened to parov and want more then caravan palace is your group.
however i haven't been able to find more groups and individuals that are based around the techno swing genre, i've found some fantastic singles like "DJ shadows organ donor" which is a fantastically written techno piece with a b****in church organ playing in the foreground. granted it might not strictly be considered swing at this point, but i think that for how awesome and fantastic classical, jazz, and swing is by theirselves, they are not detracted in any manner by the addition of a few techno beats, beeps and the odd guitar squawks.
one thing yielded by putting these artists as seeds into pandora radio is the Yoshida brothers out of japan, they've brought their three stringed oriental instrument into this century without dishonoring it in the slightest by putting it in the back ground: it's in the foreground of the music where it belongs. unfortunately though trying to put all these people into pandora radio brings up a lot of dubstep. as everybody knows dubstep is the death of music so be ye warned; 3 hours wasted looking on youtube might be worth it when the alternative is listening to freaking dubstep.