what's your recent favorite aesthetic?

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my main aesthetic of late has been repetition. most of it has been clean, crisp, chiming repetition - steve reich's music for 18 musicians, harmonia, neu!, cluster, the last track on oneida's new ep. but some has been less clean/crisp/chiming. i cant really stop listening to dj assault, either.

whats your recent aesthetic of choice?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

really really harsh or strange sounds which are somehow transformed into shiny pop tunes.

POP!grime (Shystie, Lady Sov, new Crazy Titch single, Kano)
crunk'n'b (Ciara, Nivea, Brooke Valentine)
Bpitch Control
Vitalic (hoover noises!)
much of the Gwen Stefani album

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Rockism.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

crunk'n'b/pop-go-go is another of mine, lex. ciara, amerie, and that rare essence ashlee simpson cover have all been totally ruling me.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

hippie folk psychedelia

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

music for dancing to.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Monophony. I just want to hear the root note of every chord on pulsing delay until the chord changes.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

fast beats/slow melodies, or dirty beats/pretty melodies

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

No beats, no melodies, no nuttin'

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Sunshine pop, especially that with male-female harmonies.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

dance music for sitting on the couch.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

suburban california 1970
marseille 1968
hollywood 1947

― ilkley lido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Muted, strummed guitar strings.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

the Endless Boogie record I'm listening to right now, first thing in the morning, with this cup of coffee in my hands.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

south east london 2005.

― scg, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I'll second "music to dance to". My aesthetic quest is to make vocals sound digital and wierd without using or sounding like a vocoder. It's hard.

― why must we cut onions? (Lynskey), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Occasional scraping of snow ploughs.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Spastic, herky-jerky thrash.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

music that sounds like it has too many instruments.

― ebrecht, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

After an all over the place binge via the DC hub...I have no idea. But those late sixties/early seventies Beach Boys albums are happily settling into my soul, once again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Very orchestal, sort of muscial theater-esque pop music. The new Fiona is a prime example.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

drrrrrrrooooooooonnnnnnnnnesssssss with all kinda staticky crazy noises going on around them.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

pastoral

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

i only listen to music by people that i either want validation from or want to sleep with.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Distorted off-kilter pop.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Stop talking about your dad that way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

― Distorted off-kilter king of pop, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

skrewdriver.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

60s bubblegum pastiches

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

just gimme indie rock

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

niggery suggestions

― rssgnl, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

hey zack - trivia tonight - what was ac/dc's first top 40 single? no looking it up! i got it wrong.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

top 40 in the US or anywhere?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

i've been really into female vocalists for some reason. cocteau twins, breeders, vespertine and select galaxie 500 have been at constant blare around here.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Wailin' vocals.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Psych and noise. I don't think I'd have understood something like the Black Dice a year ago and I've definitely been listening to Animal Collective in a different way recently.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

back on a hyper-minimal tech darkness tip (dexter, each and everyone, timecode). indie dance that errs on the 'dance' side (recent outhud, tommie sunshine yeah yeah yeahs remixes, m83 remixes, jaques lu cont shining up the killers). hyphy.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Very slow metal.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Indie salsa.
Modal, microtonal, maximalism.
Jazz made by (some) people who have collaborated with William Parker.

― RS, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.progarchives.com/

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Clavinets, just Hohner clavinets. (Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Physical Graffiti-era Led Zeppelin, etc...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

...)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Schizophrenia

("recent")

― BARMS, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

"Rescuing Dance Music From the Blahs"
"Accordions Are the New Guitars"
"Now I Wanna Play My Harp"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Not an aesthetic, but I can't get enough mash-ups these days. Particularly anything with Top 40 vocals and classic rock. I love it when rockists and anti-rockists are forced to make out.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

swooning

― elwisty (elwisty), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

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