Re: OT Re: DEFINING CULTURAL YEAR of the DECADE

["Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

 Wow - someone else listens to WREK! I listen at work in the mornings frequently - they have one of the best jazz shows I've ever heard, because they play a *lot* more of the outside stuff than you normally hear on jazz stations. I listen via iTunes rather than their web site because I can see the song names and artists as they play that way.

And Matt - thanks for those links to indie hip-hop. I'm gonna have to check those out.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:

"The music industry has settled on a pretty cost-effective

model" [snip] >"Most of the radio stations across the

country have the exact same playlist"

That brings me back to good ol' WREK Geogria Tech radio. They were the first on the net in '94, well sort of....   you can get the story here http://www.wrek.org/?q=wreknet-first . I remember picking an apt. just because it was in their limited broadcast area. I didn't get int ernet until '97. I love this station. They have remained steadfast in their vision all these years. Between public radio and them I survived for years. I see they are going to 100,000 watts finally.

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Davignon" <mattdavignon@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: OT Re: DEFINING CULTURAL YEAR of the DECADE

I think if you're looking for earthshattering trends of the last 2
decades, you're not going to find them on most terrestrial radio
stations. The music industry has settled on a pretty cost-effective
model: rather than trying to guess which music people are going to
like, they just put out stuff and do all they can to see that people
don't hear anything else. Most of the radio stations across the
country have the exact same playlist. If you listen to a pop station
in Los Angeles, you're going to hear the exact same stuff in Maine.

When I think of things that happened in the 2000's:
--Glitch pop: The idea that a computer can be an instrument, and that
sequences and samples you program at home can be the new "folk" music:
The Books, Tujiko Noriko, Tuung

--Indie Hip-Hop has grown by leaps and bounds this decade, and now has
a completely different identity than the mainstream
2-notes-on-a-$10,000-keyboard stuff on the radio. Take a listen to the
record labels Stones Throw (Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No, Aloe Blacc, Guilty
Simpson, etc) and Definitive Jux (El-P, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Mr.
Lif, etc). Another collective, Anticon, put out several albums of
their more avant-garde take on it earlier in the decade, including the
excellent first Clouddead record.

--Grime as a genre didn't become as popular in the US as it allegedly
did in England, but it's usually characterized as a funky "dirty"
combination between dancehall (reggae), rap and techno, often using
"affordable" equipment: MIA, Dizzie Rascal, Lady Sovereign

--New services on the internet, such as myspace and iodalliance.com
make it easy for independent artists to get just as much online
distribution (even more) than major label artists get.

Matt Davignon
www.ribosomemusic.com

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