What's with all the Africa threads?

Is this the new musical hot spot, or do we have members living there?

I'm confused too.

watmm users being retards i assume. it's a shame, as this forum desperately needs some decent discussions

racists

drugs

come to think of it I should probably post something on Rock Konducta

Not sure but it's the reason I now get Toto's Africa stuck in my head whenever I browse Music Discussion.

i see three threads. maybe people are bored of talking about shitty electronic music?

And one of the threads is from 2011. We should broaden our musical horizons a little. There's new music popping up all over this planet, it's hard to locate though. I thought that there'd be some wisenheimers that would illuminate us all.

We did have a brazil thread for a little bit, that had a couple of wicked tracks in it.

Its because of john wizards.

Africa will be the new ibiza

Are there any visit Africa type travel-tip threads? I'm going to Kenya for a month

most of these african artists try to mimic american rappers/rnb and do a poor job, no sir i don't like it

also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM_RMHvPhio&feature=player_detailpage

Wow, that's so racist.

Haven't you heard? Africa is the new cool.

(no racist, just wanted an excuse to post this video)

Are you serious?

  On 8/11/2013 at 12:36 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

most of these african artists try to mimic american rappers/rnb and do a poor job, no sir i don't like it

the stuff i heard yes

well i don't care for it, i'm not like zomg true kvlt african music! i should so get into this

i wasn't either. Just something different isn't it. And certainly a different groove to US hip/hop. Most of which isn't some magnetic paradigm, but rather self referencial dross. You rummage around enough though, and you find something intresting. And like a garage sale, you might think that you want it, because in relation to the bleek background noise it stands out. But then you get home and wonder why you have a 60's plastic lampshade on your kitchen table.

heh.

@ paranerd, ivan is occassionally terrible. Some ancestor must have cross bred with a troll.

yes i am terrible for not liking african music

  On 8/11/2013 at 12:36 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

most of these african artists try to mimic american rappers/rnb and do a poor job, no sir i don't like it

wow the level, of ignorance... this statement can't be fo real, is it pun intended?

anyways...

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jezus wept

blood diamonds! Lol

  On 8/11/2013 at 2:27 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

yes i am terrible for not liking african music

no you are terrible for trolling, i couldn't care less what is your pickled fancy. ;-]

  On 8/11/2013 at 10:41 AM, flurobox said:

Are there any visit Africa type travel-tip threads? I'm going to Kenya for a month

I'm going to Madagascar for three weeks.

Stockhausen On Aphex Twin:

I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy’s voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.

re: stockhausen

There's no shame in expressing interest in music and culture from other continents. Although WATMM's demographic is predominantly Western, that doesn't mean we have to confine our interests to only Europe and North America.