On British Music
Posted: 2006-10-13 07:01pm
Why is it so fucking good?
This is a list of the groups I consider my favorite. At a mimimum, I have an album of theirs [if not in CD then mp3 at least]
-- Paul Oakenfold, Britain
-- The Prodigy, British
-- Audioslave, America
-- Darude, Finland
-- Juno Reactor, Britain
-- Lo Fidelity All Stars, London
-- Rage Against The Machine, America [defunct, but I loved them and their current aforementioned incarnation, minus the crazy Mexican national ]
-- The Chemical Brothers, U.K.
-- Pendulum, from Austrailia, relocated to Britain
-- Roni Size, British
-- The Crystal Method, America
------ Less than favorite, but enjoy --------
-- Junior Senior, Denmark
-- Darude, Finland
-- EZ Rollers, Britain
-- Total Science, Oxford, England
I actually didn't go as far as I could have, the point's clear though.
The amazing thing, this isn't through TYRING. I mean, once I hear a sound I like, certainly, I go out and add more of the same from that artist or in the case when I "discovered" Drum and Bass, a genre new to me in general. It's not like a lot of this is even accessable stateside.
A BIG creditor for a lot of this goes to the PS2 music game Frequency, that contained Roni Size, Lo Fi All Stars, The Crystal Method, Orbital, and Juno Reactor. The very latter in that group I was first exposed to in movies [Mortal Kombat: Annihilation most notably] but Roni Size in Frequency was a fortuitous find in that it was the launching pad to DnB.
Maybe my own perception of American music is unfairly influenced by Clear Channel Communications iron grip on American FM airwaves. The "Big Three" I grew up on, rap, rock and country, do nothing for me -- as soon as I heard the first electronica album pounding through the wall between my and my sister's room, I was hooked. Other genres I hear a lot in the states to a lesser degree such as popular hispanic oriented music, ska, reggae, and 4/4 house / techno all do equally NOTHING for me and time and time again, I will discover "a new sound" and only after having been sucked in by it, do I find out it's 7 times out of 10 British. I always find it hilarious reading anything critical about the state of British club music because though it may be tired over there, I find it refreshingly original and fun to listen to. Is there anything more to this?
It's worth noting my proclivities steer me towards electronica over everything else. This is a general taste and there are exceptions to every rule.
And I would hope it doesn't have to be mentioned, that the spirit of this post and thread is NOT this America bashing trend. I really don't think this needs to be said in this, the AMP forum, but I'm cautious and caution tells me: some people on this board have thin skin. That being said, in innoculation to any such levy against me, STFU IT'S MUSIC!
This is a list of the groups I consider my favorite. At a mimimum, I have an album of theirs [if not in CD then mp3 at least]
-- Paul Oakenfold, Britain
-- The Prodigy, British
-- Audioslave, America
-- Darude, Finland
-- Juno Reactor, Britain
-- Lo Fidelity All Stars, London
-- Rage Against The Machine, America [defunct, but I loved them and their current aforementioned incarnation, minus the crazy Mexican national ]
-- The Chemical Brothers, U.K.
-- Pendulum, from Austrailia, relocated to Britain
-- Roni Size, British
-- The Crystal Method, America
------ Less than favorite, but enjoy --------
-- Junior Senior, Denmark
-- Darude, Finland
-- EZ Rollers, Britain
-- Total Science, Oxford, England
I actually didn't go as far as I could have, the point's clear though.
The amazing thing, this isn't through TYRING. I mean, once I hear a sound I like, certainly, I go out and add more of the same from that artist or in the case when I "discovered" Drum and Bass, a genre new to me in general. It's not like a lot of this is even accessable stateside.
A BIG creditor for a lot of this goes to the PS2 music game Frequency, that contained Roni Size, Lo Fi All Stars, The Crystal Method, Orbital, and Juno Reactor. The very latter in that group I was first exposed to in movies [Mortal Kombat: Annihilation most notably] but Roni Size in Frequency was a fortuitous find in that it was the launching pad to DnB.
Maybe my own perception of American music is unfairly influenced by Clear Channel Communications iron grip on American FM airwaves. The "Big Three" I grew up on, rap, rock and country, do nothing for me -- as soon as I heard the first electronica album pounding through the wall between my and my sister's room, I was hooked. Other genres I hear a lot in the states to a lesser degree such as popular hispanic oriented music, ska, reggae, and 4/4 house / techno all do equally NOTHING for me and time and time again, I will discover "a new sound" and only after having been sucked in by it, do I find out it's 7 times out of 10 British. I always find it hilarious reading anything critical about the state of British club music because though it may be tired over there, I find it refreshingly original and fun to listen to. Is there anything more to this?
It's worth noting my proclivities steer me towards electronica over everything else. This is a general taste and there are exceptions to every rule.
And I would hope it doesn't have to be mentioned, that the spirit of this post and thread is NOT this America bashing trend. I really don't think this needs to be said in this, the AMP forum, but I'm cautious and caution tells me: some people on this board have thin skin. That being said, in innoculation to any such levy against me, STFU IT'S MUSIC!