{"id":670,"date":"2005-01-26T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/26\/periodic-music-update\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T18:14:11","slug":"periodic-music-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/26\/periodic-music-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Music Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few very random observations prompted by the music in my life these days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithjarrett.org\/\">Keith Jarrett<\/a> is a bloody <strong>genius<\/strong> (dug the K\u00f6ln Concert&#8217;s vinyl boxset last week-end in Koenji.)<\/li>\n<li>Sometime during the late 90&#8217;s, there was a point where it seemed House was about to break into the mainstream: radios started playing House tracks, cross-over successes appeared, major venues featured House acts.<br \/>\nEventually, the trend fizzled out and, instead, Hip Hop became the music of choice for the average dance-impaired suburban white kid&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I take a deep hard look at any random Hip Hop producer on TV nowadays and thank the gods that House never made it to that level of buffoonery&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>My personal theory regarding Drum&#8217;n&#8217;Bass is that it is a project gone out-of-hand, developed in the Secret Research Labs of the British Dentistry Association aimed at removing patients&#8217; fillings without anesthesia.\n<p>An alternative theory would be that somebody once decided to make a music so caricatural that it begs to be used for one of these <em>60 Minutes<\/em> special on The Youth of Today and the barbaric music they are into nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>Note: My current appreciation of that thankfully near-extinct musical genre is possibly biased by the fact I was just handed such a massively retarded piece of washing-machine rhythm with mission to make the sound &#8220;Phat&#8221; and to compress the bass more (you stupid tweakhead: if I throw one more inch of compression into that track, it&#8217;ll pretty much become one single pulsating bass sound with a few signature d&#8217;n&#8217;b, motorcycle-on-the-highway, sound effects here and there).<\/li>\n<li>Also among the insanely cool picks of that last vinyl hunt to Koenji: <strong>Cymande<\/strong>, probably one of the best funk band of all times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few very random observations prompted by the music in my life these days:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}