eh Speedy Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 is anybody else completely uninterested in this broken beat thing, with beats tripping over themselves trying to be hip and dropping out of time. it really just sounds like a fucking mess to me. i can't even feel the funk. i'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong w/ my timing. it's just that this stuff is ass, no? did it come w/ dubstep or something? i can see it being dated in years to come like "why were we doing this?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 What? Broken beat has been around much longer than dubstep methinks. And no I'm not tired of it. Unless I'm thinking of something different than you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 I think Steve said it pretty well: Pitchfork: Has [the L.A. music scene/Low End Theory] changed for better or for worse in some ways? FL: Well, I feel like a lot of kids, a lot of halfway kids, come out here, kids who started making beats six months ago, thinking they can get on stage because their drums are off. This kind of stuff annoys me. But we're able to throw this Sonic Warfare party [for Kode9's new book], which is crazy. We have a forum to do things that benefit bigger conversations. Pitchfork: You're known for looser drums and rhythms, and with the new album and the move towards more live instrumentation, it shows there's so much more to it. That sense of rhythm is hard to master. FL: It is. It's organic. I just don't quantize the stuff. You do what you feel and that's what it is. You don't try to out-feel yourself. Some of this shit is so straight on the beat, it's hilarious. The Thom Yorke thing is so on the grid. I get kind of frustrated by people who talk about that all the time. I just want to step away from that. http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7793-flying-lotus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 I kinda hate most of it, sounds like a mess indeed, it's annoying imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 i've said this a million times on this forum: all genres of music have shitty artists/music. very few, if any, genres are completely lousy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AcrossCanyons Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 i've said this a million times on this forum: all genres of music have shitty artists/music. no genres are completely lousy. this. also i am a fan of the broken beat sound. always have, probably always will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest illfly mandog Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 I like some of the early stuff...before it was every really considered "broken" Dilla, Madlib, Amon Contact, stuff like that.(if thats what you mean by broken) Samiyam needs to shut the fuck up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 what's wrong with samiyam? btw, dilla, madlib... that ain't broken beat. that is called hip hop, which is another very obscure genre with both wonderful and terrible artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AcrossCanyons Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Samiyam is brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 i like flying lotus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colunga Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jmidBMRPw In all seriousness though, can someone post some shitty broken beats? I dont know many artists considered Broken Beat" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretstik Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 btw, dilla, madlib... that ain't broken beat. that is called hip hop, which is another very obscure genre with both wonderful and terrible artists. Although according to Stones Throw, the DJ Rels album was a deliberate tribute to Broken Beat. But I don't think I'd ever associate that with all the wibbly wobbly wonky stuff knocking about over the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr12000 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 If your taking about the LA beat style that's goin' down, then please recognize that these beats are not broken. "Broken Beat" has been around before any of this shit hit the scene. Please don't call this new shit Broken beat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_beat Yeah, the beats are loose, and sometimes "offtime" but that doesn't mean its broken beat. I've always heard that tied with glitch music anyway.... which this is not. Now... ya muthafuckas need to recognize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCC0loDlDY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 In all seriousness though, can someone post some shitty broken beats? I dont know many artists considered Broken Beat" Why the FUCK would you want us to post shitty music? you want your introduction to a genre to be based off the worst artists in that genre? WTF? If your taking about the LA beat style that's goin' down, then please recognize that these beats are not broken. "Broken Beat" has been around before any of this shit hit the scene. Please don't call this new shit Broken beat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_beat Yeah, the beats are loose, and sometimes "offtime" but that doesn't mean its broken beat. I've always heard that tied with glitch music anyway.... which this is not. Now... ya muthafuckas need to recognize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCC0loDlDY so are you saying that this guy is broken beat, or no? BTW, I think there is often confusion between "Broken Beat" and "Wonky". Flying Lotus, Samiyam = Wonky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr12000 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 No, he's not broken beat, but people made this thread about LA Beat or.... "wonky" so I posted some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 No, he's not broken beat, but people made this thread about LA Beat or.... "wonky" so I posted some. Cool, just wanted to clarify. Yes, "wonky" is one of the dumbest genre names of all time, second only to IntelligentDanceMusic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 wonky is the new dubstep is the new idm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr12000 Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 "Wonky" is way cooler than dubstep, or at least wayyy more appealing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Backson Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 if this is about the whole beats being out of time thing, it goes without saying that some is good and some is bad. i guess its a reaction to the fact that so much electronic music is almost fetish-like with its precision, so naturally there was going to be a backlash. Burial said something about it, how he thought that Jungle was killed but its own rigidness. Anyway, Clark has avoided quantising recently, and he's come up with "Nordic Wilt" and some stuff on Totems Flare. So its just the other side of things really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eh Speedy Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 i think what mainly set me off is that ever since the trend came around i can't listen to Mark Pritchard anymore, and that sucks cause i really liked the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrofen Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tEi-KVIrkc Is that broken beat? This too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyHzMI39ko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magdog Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Strange to bring this subject up now as "Broken Beat" came out of West London in the late 1990's thanks to 4hero, Kaidi Tatham, Orin Walters and a few other amazingly talented musicians. Strange because since around 2005 the true Broken Beat sound has kinda died off along with the Co-Op club and Goya distribution. the real deal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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