i like that this stuff is sort of tasteless but i also don't
none of the matoma remixes touch classixx/shwayze edit to me
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 September 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
I wasn't really feeling that Matoma mix although it had its moments. This thread title piqued my interest because it got close to my long-held non-existent fantasy genre that melds the syncopated, socafied end of post-UK funky dance music with the bouncier end of nu-Balearic, but then there's quite a bit of afropop tilting in that direction right now as it is.
― Matt DC, Monday, September 14, 2015 1:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its def just a strain of the broader technical genre of 'tropical house' that's worth listening to & fantasy genre is totally a part of its appeal...tim's right that matoma as a central figure makes better sense than anyone else, but even w/ him there's a few records which just don't work (any eminem remixes for example)...you def have to dig through crap to find the worthwhile shit but as DJ tools the best stuff is great as a kind of genre nexus imo
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
the matoma mix is just a bunch of his own remixes lined up right? that's obv not the idea way to experience this stuff ... I'm more seeing these as DJ tools where individual songs work & some don't but they're not afraid of incorporating rap which has been an issue w/ balearic zone of fruitless disintegration since the mid 00s revival
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
what is fruitless disintegration
― the late great, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
if only coyote records had rapping on them
― brimstead, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2015 2:11 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
an attempt to joke on 'fruitless intensification' but more implying castles made of sand falling in the sea eventually due to diminishing audience interest the further you go into the nu balearic essence
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
total wet blanket house
Not to be confused with Toadal Wet Sprocket House.
― MarkoP, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
as jordan noted on uk dance thread this song has a great & shameless tropical vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozx898ADTxM
― niels, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
GAH STOP WITH THAT SONG IT IS THE WORST
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
haha it's certainly the popularest, #1 in uk last week?
even though it's a bit fast&hard/housey compared to other t house tracks, it has a lot of core elements imo - throwback acapella, naive aesthetics, steel drum synth breakdown, joyous melancholy
― niels, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 08:36 (eight years ago) link
it is distilled shit
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link
the logical shit endpoint of the already shit "wish you were mine" by philip george
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Don't see that at all - "wish you were min" has a kind of minor key piano riff that's much more late 90s techno (I think?), no tropical vibe
they both xploit 70s acapella's though (but the MJ one is so much better than the weirdly pitched Stevie one)
― niels, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 11:25 (eight years ago) link
that's what i mean by "logical" - the sigala track is angled specifically to capitalize on summer 2015. i just don't see any creativity, originality, bangin-ness or guilty pleasureness here at all.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
well, I guess it is kind of vapid - and not sure I'm a fan
but I thought it worth posting since it's a smash belonging in this thread, in that respect completely agree it's "logical"
― niels, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link
ha ok fair enuff :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
hehe... also I guess it kind of follows the workings of tropical house industry - from what I gather this started out as an amateur Soundcloud post
― niels, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
i agree with j0rdan on this one
http://gawker.com/is-disclosure-a-victim-of-its-own-good-taste-1733745303
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 2 October 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
I don't.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Haha, that review was great
― niels, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Mind you, normally I'm on board with arguments that things with taste are bad and tasteless things are good.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Nice one J0rdan.
I had forgotten about that Ed Sheeran track.
― Tim F, Friday, 2 October 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
tasteful/-less really isn't an indicator of value either way
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 October 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Love that review, J0rdan.
― longneck, Friday, 2 October 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
I remember this argument about tasteful dance music when Everything But the Girl started experimenting with drums 'n' bass and house.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 October 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
My biggest problem with Caracal is that it sounds all too reminiscent of "Latch," not that it's too tasteful.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
ty guys
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 October 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
I think Disclosure's tastefulness was a big part of what drew me to them originally, but then its unabashed upward mobility felt like a reaction to an insistence on rawness/undergroundness/complexity. Now it's just pushing an open door.
― Tim F, Saturday, 3 October 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
did we have a thread about razrs? i def remember reading all the other ones
― r|t|c, Saturday, 3 October 2015 07:02 (eight years ago) link
lol ok i have fallen by "here for you" by kygo despite hating the vocals
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 October 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
ooh thanks for that tip, vox are not that great but instrumental rocks!
― niels, Monday, 5 October 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link
enjoying the "call on me" vibe on this one https://soundcloud.com/sigalamusic/sweetlovin
― niels, Monday, 5 October 2015 10:58 (eight years ago) link
most of the auth tropical by kygo et al feels so cold and clinical, but i love when it gets warm & is fronted by pop stars lol
― TheFatSJW (D-40), Monday, 5 October 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
any tropical eoy lists?
that bieber track sure is something
Justin Bieber – 'What Do You Mean?'
― niels, Friday, 4 December 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
oh well, I guess the Bieber and MØ tracks topping lists count
― niels, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
this is new and good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxdrus-I5c
― abcfsk, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
relatively new
― abcfsk, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Hits the spot
― niels, Monday, 14 December 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
http://www.magneticmag.com/author/ben-houston/https://soundcloud.com/bhoustonla/sets/the-trop-15-the-15-best
i mean u kinda have to hand it to this guy no. like why does everyone come online now to read/aspire 2 be some uselessly generalist dork-at-large when the post of Tropical House and Chillwave Editor is available
― r|t|c, Saturday, 2 January 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Haha I love this post, best music writing 2015
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 2 January 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
So many lines I want to c&p into every thread.
― Tim F, Saturday, 2 January 2016 11:48 (eight years ago) link
Some writers may think that tropical house is a bubble that will burst, and even some artists like Thomas Jack are coming in hot saying that they want to distance themselves from the sound. To them I say, it’s just getting started and evolving outside its stereotypes so sit back, grab a cold brew and quit trying to bring down music that has the inherent ability to make you smile and want to run into the ocean butt naked.
― niels, Saturday, 2 January 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
RIP guru josh
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
I contend The Magician's Magic Tapes has been the curatorial center this subgenre for 5 years now. Among 200k listeners, he surely had a few producers.
My favorite 2015 thisthready thing was Cyclist - Heartbeat Speed (ft. Jocelyn Alice).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVG7iMb8dY
For 2016, I await the Darius album like the Second Coming (of Aeroplane).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JckhXz8aktY
― Flesh emoji (Sanpaku), Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
classy stuff!
matoma is playing my town in two weeks, kinda thinking abt going... small venue, 20 $
― niels, Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
gospel mentasm trop-step
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NaEg8lTZXUg0TgYOiqSzN
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure that's true, about the magician, but then the trop house pulse is like lab designed for me not to find
did anyone take anything from bhouston bro's list
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 January 2016 11:32 (eight years ago) link
i liked mazde - pitch black a lot, it scratches a similar itch that goodbye by feder feat. lyse does, but it's not really trop house
so much of this stuff just sounds like slowed down euphoric trance - trance-bahton? - even down to the insistent chugging one-note basslines
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 January 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah try pitching terje's remix of balearic incarnation up, it's totally progressive trance
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Sunday, 10 January 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
cue Tim F for the obligatory reminder that 'the differences are more interesting than the similarities' which is probably true in this case too i guess? as far as the uses to which this music is put, if nothing else
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link