Into the Shade

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The reggae/dub thread got me thinking about how so many genres, often unrelated to each other in geography and time, have mutated to a sparser, brooding, skeletal version of their former selves.

Why there and then? how does it reflect on the audience and environment at the time, is it just another oscillation of taste? What, if anything, can can tie these transmutations together.

What are the exemplars?



 
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pattycakes_ said:
funk can go pretty avant mnml for a music as popular as it is. ahead of the game really
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Yeah it was actually around the time I think I first heard gqom I discovered this relatively new progression in baile funk with this super minimal style. its interesting how things can develop like that independently . both coming from fairly sonically dense and colourful origins and just stripping almost everything away.
 
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Can it be kinda analogous to sampling and looping? In that when you take a sample, you cut temporally to find the best bit and then use that best bit to build another tune. And then other people make tunes that sound like that but without starting from a sample.
Here you're not cutting temporally but instead you listen to everything that's going on at once and then you (metaphorically) cut it down to the best bits and make a whole song out of that.
I mean that sort of makes sense as a description of what's happening but it doesn't tell you why.
 
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Yeah it's a nice way of looking at it, choosing the elementals of the soundset, what the essence of it is and just playing with that for maximal effect. That extra space tends to sound "darker" for some reason (but not always, Jerkin' for example) which is also interesting just that its a kind of universally shared synesthesia.
 
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i get the technical side of this music. it's a continuation of the distillation, reducing down to the bare necessities to get people moving.
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been going on a while as trend. skeletal is a good way to put it
 
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