Techno vs Rap vs Disco vs Country Music
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Topic: Techno vs Rap vs Disco vs Country Music
Posted By: jude111
Subject: Techno vs Rap vs Disco vs Country Music
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:21
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I imagine these genres might be among the most despised by many here at PA. I'll admit that the one genre I have no interest in is country music. Otherwise, I'll listen to a lot of music from the other genres. I'll go with techno as my preferred genre (disco and hiphop are both dance-oriented as well and often intersect with techno).
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:25
Disco very much. The Trammps, The Bee Gees, boy, that was a sexy era.  Some New Wave/post-punk guys really took from that genre.
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:26
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sh*t, I thought it was what i hated most. I voted country. the one I like the most is Disco ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:27
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:27
Those early Bee Gee disco records have really aged well. I love the album Main Course. (I think that was their first disco album.) That and the Saturday Night Live soundtrack were hard-hitting; unfortunately, I think the band became too soft-sounding as time wore on. But Jive Talkin', Nights on Broadway, Tragedy... Good stuff! ;-)
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Dayvenkirq wrote:Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:32
Definitely Techno. Some of my favourite music is Electronic. I'm not necessarily overly fond of the styles you posted up there jude, but I still love some D'n'B and House every once in a while. IDM of course is my thing, but of course you know that.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:34
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Hip-Hop's great too, in selected doses. I'm casual on it, mostly a recent interest. Death Grips are one of my favourite bands to come out in the last couple of years. I aslo really like classic stuff like Nas and Big L. Nujabes is great too. -------------
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 22:41
I'm the same way; if the mood strikes me I'll put on some old Tribe Called Quest, or Kanye, or some 90s French rap that I like (Fonky Family, Saian Supa Crew, MC Solaar, NTM, IAM, Ministere Amer), or some instrumental rap such as Clams Casino and DJ Shadow.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 23:20
It's just one of those genres that has such heep load of crap, you really have to dig in to find the good stuff. Fortunately the really good stuff is well represented. Like you said, Dj Shadow. DJ Shadow is awesome. He had some really great beats and a unique approach. -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 23:44
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techno ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 23:46
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Of those, I'm going to have to go with disco. I actually like a few disco tunes "I Will Survive" being my favorite, but "Play That Funky Music White Boy" and some Abba is pretty cool. Don't like rap, or country or techno at all, although I will give country a shout for having some very funny song titles "Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares" "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life".
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 26 2013 at 23:50
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I don't despise all country, I don't despise all techno (though more), I don't despise all disco (though even more), and the closest I get to all-around despise is rap, with just a few, really few, exceptions. ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:09
| Techno, closely followed by rap/hip-hop. All country has that I like are Jay Munly, 16 Horsepower, and Wilco (if you'd count them) and I can't say I like any disco. |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:23
| Hip to the Hop, been listening to it more recently with artists such as MF DOOM (and all his other stuff), alot of Madlib projects, and the Killah Beez of course |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:26
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I like some old school rap like Grandmaster Flash and The Sugarhill Gang. And I like some experimental/avant-garde hip hop like DJ Shadow and Nicolas Jaar.
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:31
| DJ Shadow's the bees thighs |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:36
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Does that mean he's good?
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 01:47
| Yeah he's good |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 02:24
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country, bluegrass and related, there are many many good artists in this genre, which is far from being true in other genres listed.
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 02:29
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I like some old hiphop, especially turntablism. I like some old disco, and have a 3CD set of 70s disco hits. But I have a 20 CD set of country music, which runs chronologically starting in the 1920s and ending in 1953. So I'll vote for Country - not the post-Hank Williams stuff though, of which I only have time for Johnny Cash really. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 06:23
Fon... Fonky Family? You heard about the Fonky Family?   I thought they were unknown outside of France! For me, I would rather chose rap/hip-hop, but especially oldies like Afrika Bambaata or 90's stuff like Black Sheep or De La Soul. |
Posted By: zeqexes
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 06:46
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Techno for me. I don't really care at all for the others, apart from perhaps disco. ------------- 
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Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 08:48
| Techno, just because the instrumentation itself I find pretty cool. Just not the repetitiveness. |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 09:09
That's why I like Burial, and also the best stuff that's come out of the Kompakt stable. They have a kind of pop music approach to techno: Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFoJM2tTFlY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFoJM2tTFlY Closer Musik - Departures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dmwiLCWK4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dmwiLCWK4 Dntel - (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Kompakt Superpitcher mix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVorE74HfA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVorE74HfA Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDmktYlMjM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDmktYlMjM Nathan Fake - The Sky was Pink (James Holden Mix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_voht-3HKvA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_voht-3HKvA Great mixes too can help break it up. My favorite mix is James Holden's Balance 005. There's 2 discs - it's the first disc that's a legend. It's like the Dark Side of the Moon of mixes. Okay, it's not even remotely close to Floyd, but the flow of it's just brilliant and amazing, from the brilliant opening track to the stunning last 20 minutes. (The entire disc 1 is actually on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MrBs6Bkwkk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MrBs6Bkwkk ) |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 09:27
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Ummm easily Drum and Base over the lot. I can take some of that style of music. The others....well that is not happening all together cause that is how you could kill me. Lol I do not want to die ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 10:18
It helps that I lived in France for a few years  . I'll match the best French rap against the best American rap from the 90s (I'm not too sure about contemporary French rap, I lost touch):Stomy Bugsy - Mon papa à moi est un gangster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izstQnMbnFo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izstQnMbnFo Fonky Family - La furie et la foi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQiLT1tS7dM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQiLT1tS7dM Saïan Supa Crew - A demie nue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmopysli49A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmopysli49A NTM - Laisse pas trainer ton fils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUd-7hKBxw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUd-7hKBxw MC Solaar - Obsolète: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76riDb2o7Vg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76riDb2o7Vg Passi - Je zappe et je mate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0mXfPn2VQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0mXfPn2VQ Fonky Family - L'amour du risque: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGvSx-foo3E" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGvSx-foo3E Lunatic - Le crime paie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQOTC2zrHPg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQOTC2zrHPg Saian Supa Crew - Darkness IAM - L'école du micro d'argent |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 14:59
Indeed. Endtroducing.... is a top 20, maybe even 10 album of all time for me.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 19:25
| Country wins out thanks to my enduring love of the (admittedly small) alternative country/gothic americana scene featuring acts like Denver Gentlemen, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Lilium, Jay Munly/Lee Lewis Harlots/Lupercalians, Slim Cessnas Auto Club, Reverend Glasseye, etc... But there isn't really a genre in here I have written off. All have their gems. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 19:44
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Gimme Disco Now ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 27 2013 at 22:32
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I don't despise any genre, in particular. Metal's a challenge, but I've managed to take a liking to a few of those artists as well. |
Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: April 28 2013 at 15:58
| Love me some like 6 hour deep house and lounge mixes |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 28 2013 at 18:55
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both techno and hip hop take up a fair share of my listening time (more so than prog these days), with, at the moment, a preference for techno. first got into hip-hop via the east coast, jazz rap, diggin in the crates guys, when i was heavily listening to jazz and started picking up, identifying bits and piece from samples. then my tastes proliferated outwards.
i'd always liked the heavy repetition of techno; krautrock was my entry into prog. spending a month in berlin in '09 opened my eyes to dj side of the equation. i like disco but am not well versed in what's out there. And am not very familiar with country at all. |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: April 28 2013 at 19:00
C&W. Ever hear Homer and Jethro at the Country Club?  ------------- http://larree.ws" rel="nofollow - The Larree (dot) Website |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 11:13
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Disco
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Posted By: Elastic Murray
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 11:39
| There are some fantastic country influenced guitarists like Danny Gatton, but overall I'd need to go for disco because it is funnier. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 12:03
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Disco |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 12:12
Chic's back, by way of Nigel Rodger's collaboration with Daft Punk on a song just released this past week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 12:16
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 12:33
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Techno etc.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 13:54
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Hip-Hop: No love from me what so ever. Country: This would have been the worst two years ago but after spending a summer playing in a country band, I can at least tolerate some country. I don't listen to it, but I can tolerate. Disco: I do have a soft spot for Disco, I loved "Saturday Night Fever" as a kid, made my Dad wear out the 8-track. Abba and The Bee Gees are still great. Techno: With the various electronica sub-genres included, this easily gets my vote. At this point, I would say ten percent of my listening falls into the Techno category as it's defined here. I especially get into trance. I will say this, if we're including straight electronica here, the percent probably goes up to 20 percent. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 04:04
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I consider disco and (straight) techno to be inherently void of musical value. I respect legitimate country, but I've never been into it. My vote goes to rap for the real stuff and not that sh*t on the radio.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 05:34
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i love Techno, Trance, House and Rave more then Hip hop were only true hardcore and Outkast and Old school is the real deal for me Disco is okey but nothing i really listens to and I like Country filterd through rock so nah, i like Blue Grass and i have been to country bars and had a good time so its okey if the mood is okey. -------------  
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 05:47
Well, you're wrong,  . "Straight" techno comes from Detroit - in fact, the term was coined by Detroit techno artists, and it's pretty exciting stuff. It started out as black music. Here's Fact Mag's Top 10 Detroit Techno tracks as a primer, if you want to listen to them: http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/stacey-pullens-top-10-detroit-techno-classics/" rel="nofollow - http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/stacey-pullens-top-10-detroit-techno-classics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_techno" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_techno
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 05:50
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i like house more then techno! -------------
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 05:53
Great stuff too. I consider techno a label that kind of subsumed house (even though Chicago house came first -For Earendil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_house" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_house
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 06:01
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rave came from Essex right and Trance from Berlin and some schools came from Netherlands, and also acid house from Italy or something, Benny Benassy is said to have been one of the initiaters of using heavy moog lead house this is my favourite acid house tune to play on the dance flour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53mMbPQP8b8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53mMbPQP8b8 PS; i was a Trance/house DJ from 9th grade until high school, before i knew of prog i was a techno head (i am a child of the 90s, innetable to me to be consumed my the techno culture) -------------
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 06:06
Cool. Being American, I missed out on all that. It was only when I lived in Europe that I discovered how much music Americans miss out on, and how isolated that country is generally. There's a pretty big gap between Americans and Europeans of the same generation, as far as music goes. Even though techno and house were born in the US, it was ignored there, but highly influential in England and Germany. Strange how that works...
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 06:11
i also have a theory that lots of childrens music ends up fitlerd through composed music, music from Sesamy Street might subconsiously end up in bands like DT or even Kayo Dot, for the simple reason that it is probably something they enjoyed ass kids. -------------
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 06:48
I find that's particularly true in Eastern Europe, where people remain closely connected to their folk musics, even when they're going to discos in the city. (Once I went hiking through the mountains in Bulgaria for a week with people largely from Sophia and other cities like Shumen and Varna, and man, out came the flamenco guitars and the folk dancing and the mountain songs and the rakia [strong alcohol made from a fruit].) But Western European music's so futuristic - musically, it's like stepping into a world that's 100 years ahead of America. Coming back to the US was like time travelling into the past, you expect to see wagon trails, and where people are still listening to Appalachian music like in the film Deliverance
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 06:58
easternh feel/sound has a strong rom/gypsy feel, or even hints of jewish maybem and also to folktones from their Slavic or Romantic origins, western is as you say more futuristic, but i also sence a stong classical feel to it, classy, elegant, victorian, industrial, (mainly Germany, France, Netherland, Austria, Great Brittan, and Belgium), Northern is more chilly , more natural sounds, simplistic, but rich, more archaic, but also lyrical, and mediteranian is more temperamentfull, fast and exotic, elements from both arabic, spanish, Turkian, and middeleastern, and India has its Goa, which is a different beast. -------------
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 11:04
 get yourself that Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 11:15
Or, even better, start with Moroder, something a bit out there, familiar and unfamiliar at the same time :-) . I find this review of Moroder's classic album to be a fine defense or apology for why disco *doesn't* suck: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5639-from-here-to-eternity/" rel="nofollow - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5639-from-here-to-eternity/ Or, one could start with something more recent (I'd go with Daft Punk's Homework and Discovery), and then work one's way back...
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 07 2013 at 22:18
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I like quality Rap once in a while. (geez I probably sound really white as I just said that) anyway I really like the Canadian due, SWOLLEN MEMBERS. Great Rap group. Huge fan of the album BAD DREAMS and it was actually the first rap album I bought. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 08 2013 at 04:50
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jude1111 you should check out Lars Vaular he is mixing rap and trance in a cool way
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 08 2013 at 05:04
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I'm not a fan of Techno, Rap, Disco or Country (though I appreciate some George Jones, Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons) HOWEVER - my favorite album of ANY GENRE from the LAST 10 years is this one:  and I still can't really articulate why (It just seems to tick every conceivable Lemming box..Dunno) |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 07:46
| Country, Modern Country, and Bluegrass requires more technique for guitar than what I've heard in Techno, Rap, or Disco. Modern Country deals with open tunings and slide playing on acoustic. Earlier Country music on electric guitar requires a precise and developed technique of alternate picking, lead chord work, and a "Travis' right hand finger picking technique found in "Ragtime". A "Ragtime" style displayed by Steve Howe on "The Clap" surfaced through guitarists like Chet Atkins and Roy Clark. Scotty Moore who played with Elvis had a percussive approach which influenced Bill Bruford to form independent ideas on drums. Country music in general is sometimes mixed with a guitar technique found in Jazz. I don't personally like Country music , but it's more challenging to play than the other styles mentioned in this thread. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 10:01
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Why don't we have the four genres all wrapped in one genre? Okay, I'm not sure it will be very edible, but it has to be tried! |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 10:45
Yeah you're right... most of the stuff I've heard that's popular, like any other genre I guess, was pretty lame, but I'm sure all of it isn't
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 11:03
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Techno. Pretty simple really. It's not that I dislike the other genres here(maybe apart from country - even if I love Dolly Parton's Jolene) - I just dance better to electronic music is all. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 09 2013 at 11:09
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Funny, I'm so anti-country (my dad loves it though :-) - and on today's PopMatters website, there's an interview with Karl Hyde of Underworld, a British electronic group whose albums I quite like, and he says he came close to making a country album, LOL: "You probably wouldn’t think it from his work with Underworld, but Karl Hyde is a bit of a country music fan. Indeed, during recent time away from the band, he even considered recording a collection of what he refers to as ‘drinking songs’." Brilliant article by the way, referencing everything from Brian Eno to Fredric Jameson to James Joyce, urbanism, and the link between country and folk music, and electronic music: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/170522-karl-hyde/" rel="nofollow - http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/170522-karl-hyde/ |