Recent content by ohman
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New Dancehall
third gave me some interesting gossip he said he knows who omen is. he used to make 'wonky' and 'uk bass' music, i wont say the producer name cos im not vindictive, but he always hated me for not getting behind it. he blamed me for its failure and held a grudge ever since. a lot of people think... -
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New Dancehall
Lee introduced me to some people in their 20s and i made them cry without meaning to. just cos of how insecure they are. you state an opinion, eg, dubstep is for nerds and they burst into tears. they're not used to opinions or beleiving in their own perceptions -
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distribution points
something analgous happens when the record is manipulated with the hands and it does move past the blockiness and into a completely different condition that is very true -
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as speed smears objects, bike ride turns trees into green streak -
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in, for example, force applied (assuming a frictionless environment) -
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The more fluid the wave form, the less abrasive it’s timbre: -
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The still image, the stop motion, the Charlie Chaplin frame rate, the full frame rate. -
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four points is a quadrilateral. eight an octagon. keep going and eventually you get a perfect (fluid) circle There's more distribution points filled in, points on the graph plotted -
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Time as motion picture vs comic book panel or that strobe lighting effect. the 90s is rhythmically fascinating cos it’s taking that blocky 80s language but giving the dexterity of more fluid forms of music. There's more distribution points filled in, points on the graph plotted Not lego... -
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Very much so. So what’s great about the vocal cut ups in 2step, say, is that you’re taking the very fluid language of RnB singing and reconfiguring it into this morse code rhythmic langue. It becomes blocky, geometric. -
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my music listening is very informed by the progression between the straight line robotics as the assembly line 80s to the much more articulated robotics of the 90s, in which the graph of possible movement has many more available nodes