questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?
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Freakaholic
not just an addiction
Freakaholic
not just an addiction
right, theres the performing art, "magic".
but there also seems to be a musical genre..... does this have anything to do with the magic?
but there also seems to be a musical genre..... does this have anything to do with the magic?
"now im really confused.
why was that funny?"
Sorry for the parochial link.
When I was at school in the early 80's, "mental" was a playground/schoolyard pejorative for dumb, stupid etc. As in "XXXX you're a mental case. And a bender"
Rave, with its love of juvenelia, resurrected the use of the word.
"Mentaaal!" or even "Mental, Mental, Radio Rental*" were cries of appreciation, yelled through car windows on the way to parties or on the dancefloor.
Joey Beltram's world-famous and ever popular "mentasm stab" fed into the whole thing.
An easy jump, therefore to "Mentalism".
* A high street store
why was that funny?"
Sorry for the parochial link.
When I was at school in the early 80's, "mental" was a playground/schoolyard pejorative for dumb, stupid etc. As in "XXXX you're a mental case. And a bender"
Rave, with its love of juvenelia, resurrected the use of the word.
"Mentaaal!" or even "Mental, Mental, Radio Rental*" were cries of appreciation, yelled through car windows on the way to parties or on the dancefloor.
Joey Beltram's world-famous and ever popular "mentasm stab" fed into the whole thing.
An easy jump, therefore to "Mentalism".
* A high street store
DigitalDjigit
Honky Tonk Woman
Mentalism is just a descriptive term meaning "craziness".
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
is it ok for me not to enjoy listening to model 500?
Depends how old you are. If under 30, then why are you listening to that old fart anyway? If over 30 you're judgement should be entirely clouded by utter reverence for the Originator.
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
i'm 18, so i guess it's ok. I dunno, maybe i just listen to way too much minimal but shit that jumps around too much makes me nervous haha. Nah, that's not true, I just think i'd rather listen to freestyle/early house than early techno/electro if i was forced to choose one from the same period.
That's been around for years, surely? Look there's even a webring dedicated to it...
http://members.tripod.com/~XOH/index.html
Guybrush
Dittohead
Oh yeah. I’m not particulary fond of the general output of Atkins (or the other founding fathers) either. I tend to greatly prefer the period up until 1984-ish and the period after 1991. Horses for courses. That being said, if you are at all into modern dance music you are bound to find at least a couple of tracks of theirs that speak to your heart.
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
oh yeh i definitely do - i don't mean to seem like i'm wholly discounting an entire period of generally amazing music. I'm just being a miserable git. 
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
True, but I always thought in hardkore/dnb it was 'amentalism', a pun on the ubiquity of the amen break.
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
What's ruffneck mean, as in
'it's me, the lyrical ruffneck Roachee, and i'll standardly bore a man in his knee'
and i'm sure ive heard it in loads of jungle tunes. I know it means badman/don dadda/gargan etc. but wondering about any more accurate etymology.
'it's me, the lyrical ruffneck Roachee, and i'll standardly bore a man in his knee'
and i'm sure ive heard it in loads of jungle tunes. I know it means badman/don dadda/gargan etc. but wondering about any more accurate etymology.
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
What's the thinking behind an advert five minutes into a program?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughneck
bore a man in his knee doesn't mean he's so boring he'll go for a persons knee, cos that's the only part that might listen, a rebore is a shitty gun and bore is shoot.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
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