official "beat scene" / wonky / los angeles thread

aslope!

My two cents, I'm suppose this might be more on the trip hop side of things:

Sixtoo

Also, I didn't see any one post this yet. I always felt it was a formative classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzBXC64XFVI

I love me some Flying Lotus, and the rest of his Brainfeeder posse is pretty damn ace (The Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, Daedalus, Mono/Poly, MatthewDavid, Teebs, Lorn, etc...) I've been on a real Brainfeeder kick lately. The AllCity LA series is pretty damn great too, and I really reccomend thier 7x7 comp for those just getting into this style or looking for more lesser-knowns.

Prefuse 73 is still great, although seems to be falling out of the glitch-hop thing into more experimentation with the last couple albums (still great stuff tho.) Eskmo's LP has been getting a lot of play lately too.

Madlib continues to be prolific as fuck, in fact I've fallen behind lately cause the guy releases so much stuff. Honorable mentions also to Dimlite, Dorian Concept, Exile, Fulgeance, Mike Slott, Nosaj Thing, Onra, and Take

Hudson Mohawke's Polyfolk Dance EP was pretty cool but the LP is kinda weak.

flying lotus should turn quantize back on.

You ain't got no funk white boy

Matthewdavid. the new album is more or less the true thing in the wash of trite arising

it's a mixture of Bladerunner era Vangelis [oneohtrix point never / tapes] and Flying Lotus. and lets be honest, this is a good thing. a great thing. It's everything good about Oneohtrix without any of the bad, IMO. and with beats.

Brainfeeder has been on a roll lately... Tokimonsta's Creature Dreams EP, Matthewdavid... and the new Samiyam album is bangin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OE8BuO7AiA

epic on so many levels

  On 2/27/2011 at 7:17 PM, vamos scorcho said:

it's like green eggs and ham sliding down the coolest fucking wall in downtown manhattan. it's like the Grinch strutting slowly through the boulevard.

  On 2/28/2011 at 11:41 PM, Awepittance said:

that Samiyam stuff is better than a lot of other 8-bit /electronic stuff i hear these days. but lets move on from 8bit now, onto 16-bit i say motawesomepm9:

^this! As someone born in 86' my memories of VG music are heavier on 16-bit and later. Yet kids 5+ years younger than me can't get enough of it and act like they grew up on Super Nintendo. False nostalgia is all the rage huh?

Ikonika discussed/acknowledged 16-bit influence in this interview. Not to tangent to dubstep or anything, it's just a good read.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK8ZMD8oS1c

^Samiyam sampler, apologies if repost.

http://digital.vlekdata.org/album/vlek04-will-o-the-wisp-ep

heavy production here, sounds a bit Clark/Amon Tobin

favorite as of late is Dibia$e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4uuQiZaDLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tirfFuLhCMQ

is it safe to say this sound has already sort of fizzled out as being in-fashion?

I'd agree that the post-Dilla™ un-quantized beats and xxxtreme sidechaining have been played out at this point - although I don't see there being a shortage of hip-hop/beat-inspired producers anytime soon. Stoned Throw and Brianfeeder have diversified their rosters pretty well by now too.

  On 8/8/2012 at 4:15 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

I'd agree that the post-Dilla™ un-quantized beats and xxxtreme sidechaining have been played out at this point - although I don't see there being a shortage of hip-hop/beat-inspired producers anytime soon. Stoned Throw and Brianfeeder have diversified their rosters pretty well by now too.

It's kind of reached that point where the "good" producers are all over the map style-wise and the stereotypical un-quantized beats are something of a gimmicky staple of new, unoriginal producers. I feel like there's a lot of mediocre, cookie-cutter instrumental hip-hop coming out now, inspired by beat scene artists over the last few years but no where near as diverse or interesting. But as far as the original artists and labels, they're still top-notch for me as a fan.

This happened with dubstep as well, just in a much uglier manner. All the sparse, sub bass heavy tracks, the real distinctly "dubstep" tracks that lead to the genre being hyped fizzled out, and in its place "brostep" exploded. All the decent producers have moved on. Novel sounds (at least seemingly novel) seem to be "in fashion" for shorter and shorter periods. I guess I can lazily blame social media and the internet for that. I'm not old enough to compare it to older "scenes" and genres like d'n'b, trip-hop, IDM, etc but I feel like those rose up and burned out in terms of attention and hype over much longer periods.

*jots it down*

no but really, the fact that we are all here on watmm still listening to some sort of electronic music still means something doesn't it?