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Ok my learned friends, I'm needing some positive support and guidance from all you heads out there. If you would take some time to read on, perhaps you can help me?
As we all know, occassionally our tastes change and we find ourselves more drawn to particular musical styles, moods or even just sounds where producing [and more nerdy moments] is concerned. I have always enjoyed a very healthy love of the weird and twisted, particularly in music but have always had an excrutiatingly strict, subjective attitude too so it has narrowed my listening. I find that I'm really digging a lot of weirder, more abstract stuff, some of which I totally hated before, but this is what keeps our obsession with music alive and developing I guess! Anyways, I always had a fascination with electro and so when I was entrenched in underground soul and funk, all my mates were checking electro and some were into electronic-a [is there a difference?] and I always felt I could get into this big time one day.
Well, several years on and after ammasing quite a few records later, I'm seriously into electro sounding type ish but have a really tough time tracking down the kind of stuff I wanna hear. It's really odd, cos this sort of quest for one bloody difficult to define music is exactly what I was doing years back when I was trying to define the term psychedelic and searched for music which I really thought fitted into that often confusing genre. Not digging the typical flower power type nonsense, I had to do a lot of flipping work to get to shit like the Silver Apples, United States of America, Modulo 1000 and Piero Umiliani. We all have had to put in hours of sweat into this right? Well, everybody except David Holmes who squeezes a few of his vinyl pimps, but don't get me started!!!
What I'm after here is equally tough to define so it's driving me scatty cos it's out there and I just need to stick on my electro scoping shades and track the mother down!
It's electro by definition, but it has to have the funk. It's also deeply psychedelic by nature. Preferably hip-hop tempo type stuff or maybe a little faster and X-large twisted on the overall vibe. It has to have layers and layers of what I call treacley synths, very sticky, sweet sounding 70's style, mad squelchy, resonating, acid soaked moogs and rhodes, over heavy drums, either gentle fatback type funk rolls or banging high in the mix.
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What I'm feeling is the jam in the obscure electro-fied OST pudding, occassinally spread on library joints [cos the europeans were mad on this kind of shit, although I know precious little on Italian libraries and I'm guessing this is where the sweetness is, feed me Sermad!!!] and sometimes on really unlikely records like Krautrock or prog type ish, but you know the score with that, it's always a really nice and fat sequence within a larger, ultimately more noodly track which then turns into Jazz Odyssey for me!
So, I guess I should give a few examples, right?
Well, a few tracks which nail this sound down pretty damn well would be Sour Soul from The Flasher OST [still chasing an OG
] ; Alberto Baldan's Ali Ben LP [I NEED this record to live] ; Roubaixs' Astralement Votre flip with Elizabeth Tessier [thankyou so very much Ed, mind blowing music] ; Howard Wales' Rendevous with the Sun [The Perfect record. But once more, chasing the OG baby] ; Michel Gonets' Phasing News on Telemusic, [ Psychedelic funk: my definition......frighteningly deep with layer upon layer of squelchy synths and crisp percussion underneath real psych effects].
Head nodding type shit on LSD, you know?
Well, that's it really, didnt take much did it?
Now throw me some sweetness off your table, people.
I'm dying here!
As we all know, occassionally our tastes change and we find ourselves more drawn to particular musical styles, moods or even just sounds where producing [and more nerdy moments] is concerned. I have always enjoyed a very healthy love of the weird and twisted, particularly in music but have always had an excrutiatingly strict, subjective attitude too so it has narrowed my listening. I find that I'm really digging a lot of weirder, more abstract stuff, some of which I totally hated before, but this is what keeps our obsession with music alive and developing I guess! Anyways, I always had a fascination with electro and so when I was entrenched in underground soul and funk, all my mates were checking electro and some were into electronic-a [is there a difference?] and I always felt I could get into this big time one day.
Well, several years on and after ammasing quite a few records later, I'm seriously into electro sounding type ish but have a really tough time tracking down the kind of stuff I wanna hear. It's really odd, cos this sort of quest for one bloody difficult to define music is exactly what I was doing years back when I was trying to define the term psychedelic and searched for music which I really thought fitted into that often confusing genre. Not digging the typical flower power type nonsense, I had to do a lot of flipping work to get to shit like the Silver Apples, United States of America, Modulo 1000 and Piero Umiliani. We all have had to put in hours of sweat into this right? Well, everybody except David Holmes who squeezes a few of his vinyl pimps, but don't get me started!!!
What I'm after here is equally tough to define so it's driving me scatty cos it's out there and I just need to stick on my electro scoping shades and track the mother down!
It's electro by definition, but it has to have the funk. It's also deeply psychedelic by nature. Preferably hip-hop tempo type stuff or maybe a little faster and X-large twisted on the overall vibe. It has to have layers and layers of what I call treacley synths, very sticky, sweet sounding 70's style, mad squelchy, resonating, acid soaked moogs and rhodes, over heavy drums, either gentle fatback type funk rolls or banging high in the mix.
Â
What I'm feeling is the jam in the obscure electro-fied OST pudding, occassinally spread on library joints [cos the europeans were mad on this kind of shit, although I know precious little on Italian libraries and I'm guessing this is where the sweetness is, feed me Sermad!!!] and sometimes on really unlikely records like Krautrock or prog type ish, but you know the score with that, it's always a really nice and fat sequence within a larger, ultimately more noodly track which then turns into Jazz Odyssey for me!
So, I guess I should give a few examples, right?
Well, a few tracks which nail this sound down pretty damn well would be Sour Soul from The Flasher OST [still chasing an OG
] ; Alberto Baldan's Ali Ben LP [I NEED this record to live] ; Roubaixs' Astralement Votre flip with Elizabeth Tessier [thankyou so very much Ed, mind blowing music] ; Howard Wales' Rendevous with the Sun [The Perfect record. But once more, chasing the OG baby] ; Michel Gonets' Phasing News on Telemusic, [ Psychedelic funk: my definition......frighteningly deep with layer upon layer of squelchy synths and crisp percussion underneath real psych effects]. Head nodding type shit on LSD, you know?
Well, that's it really, didnt take much did it?
Now throw me some sweetness off your table, people.
I'm dying here!
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