Rolling not-usually-a-genre-I-listen-to-or-like-or-know-anything-about thread (for all genres) 2008

And genre experts are obviously invited to respond to genre-know-nothings.

I recently got into Nathan Fake but do not know what sub genre he falls into and cant find other music like his.

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I HAVE HAERD MUCH TALK ABOUT THIS SO-CALLED FEARTER, WHAT DO IT SOUNSD LIKE?

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I knew this was a good idea.

I'm just going to chill out to my Peter Visti mix.

I recently got into Nathan Fake but do not know what sub genre he falls into and cant find other music like his.

Depends on whether you're talking about his album, which I guess counts as some sort of IDM revival (in which case you'd want to get things like Minotaur Shock, Schneider TM, Freescha, Four Tet, and (James) Holden, plus the usual Warp roster (Boards Of Canada, Aphex et al). If you mean the earlier EPs, there's loads of stuff on the Border Community label which is almost all gold.

i haven't heard any recent dance stuff that i love. not that i've been looking that hard.

So, can anyone please explain to me, the dance neophyte/dilettante, what the heck "Balearic" is.

Btw, great thread idea, Rockist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_beat

The early-1990s Balearic Beat sound was typified by a distinctive, relatively heavy, slow (90–110 bpm), R&B-influenced beat consisting of bass drum, snare, and hi-hats (often produced with a Roland TR-909 drum machine) programmed in certain laid-back, swing-beat patterns; plus soul, Latin, African, funk, and dub affectations; and production techniques borrowed from other styles of dance music that were popular at the time.

So chill house, basically?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xYV7y8WfraE&feature=related

The only person I know who is listens to dance music played this over a dozen times on NYE. Is this pretty much what's going on out there?

That's just normal vocal house (albeit with an unusually long vocal breakdown section).

The stuff that's called balearic now is a bit different to the stuff that was called balearic in the late 80s/early 90s - for one, Soul II Soul-style R&B is less of a factor.

Now it refers to really slow, somewhat dubby disco-not-disco with a host of non-disco sonic references thrown in (krautrock, post-rock, dub, early synthesiser stuff, post-punk, mid-80s MOR and art rock, world music, sometimes stuff like 70s california rock, folk, blues-rock, ambient etc.). Also flamenco guitar is big.

Check out this promo video for the band Studio.

Here's A Mountain of One playing live.

Thanks Tim!

I'm also interested but clueless re: Balearic.

Also check out the music on these myspace pages:

Mungolian Jetset - http://www.myspace.com/mungolianjetset
Ronny & Renzo - http://www.myspace.com/ronnyandrenzo
Aeroplane - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=156396502

Now I know what Balearic is, I can't help feeling disappointed. I was expecting it to sound more like Altern-8 and less like Dreadzone.

No such luck - but surely "I was expecting it sound more like Altern-8" applies more to nu-rave?

Sadly Balearic is old Woodentops records rather than anything as wasome as Altern8.

Where do you guys get this stuff (besides record shops I mean)? Are there specialized torrent/P2P networks for Baelaric/Minimal/etc or do you just surf MySpace?

this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

Right, but when I'm on that thread I'm thinking "ok where is all this stuff you guys are discussing coming from?" Is it really all from MySpace?

I guess we will have to wait for Tim or somebody to return. But there are links to mixes and that sort of thing there (beyond myspace).

For mixes:

http://www.coolinthepool.com/
http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/

I'm gonna be doing a balearic entry with downloads in my year-end wrap-up at some point soon.

soulseek is pretty good for dance music.

i don't have myspace but i'd imagine that listening to a lot of current dance music (minimal) on it would be terrible because that stuff is all very subtle sound design and the myspace player is lo-fidelity.

yeah, especially through my crappy speaker monitors :-(

Kalefa Sanneh had a surprisingly comprehensible piece about "dubstep" (which I know nothing about, though I thought the Burial album last year was boring) in this morning's NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/music/21dub.html?ex=1358658000&en=54f536963f79f647&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I also don't understand what the dancefloor subgenre called "bassline" is, but I just noticed that, in 1998, I reviewed an alleged "speed garage" compilation from Moonshine Records in Rolling Stone, and it was called Basslines, so now I'm obviously wondering if that's a coincidence.

I want to get this dubstep CD (which appeals to me at least partly for the well-chosen samples of Arabic music--like what I would have liked Muslim Gauze to sound like):

http://www.emusic.com/album/Skull-Disco-Soundboy-Punishments-MP3-Download/11101838.html