Below and mile off-topic... On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Julian Leviston <jul...@leviston.net> wrote:
> > On 23/01/2012, at 8:26 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: > >> Below. >> >> On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGB <cr88...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. >>> say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with rap-style lyrics sung >>> using a death-metal voice or similar, without "the man" (producers, ...) >>> demanding all the time that they get a new album together (or that their >>> fans and "the man" expect them to stay with their existing sound and >>> theme), and if they just gave them something which was like "and so >>> wub-wub-wub, goes the sub-sub-sub, as the lights go blim-blim-blim, as >>> shorty goes rub-run-run, on my hub-hub-hub, as my rims go spin-spin-spin" >>> or something... (all sung in deep growls and roars), at which point maybe >>> the producers would be very unhappy (say, if he was hired on to be part of >>> a tween-pop boy-band, and adolescent females may respond poorly to >>> bass-filled "wubbing growl-rap", or something...). >>> >>> >>> or such... >> >> This is probably the raddest metaphor that I have ever seen on a mailing >> list. >> >> BGB FTW! >> >> P.S. >> >> If you want to get this song out the door, I'm totally in. Dubsteprapmetal >> might be the next big thing. I can do everything except the drums. We should >> write an elegant language for expressing musical score in OMeta and use a >> simulated orchestra! > > Oh come on, Dub Step Rap Metal has been done before... Korn is basically what > that is... Just because you're not CALLING it dubstep doesn't mean it > doesn't have the dubstep feel. > > Interesting, also, that you chose dubstep here, because that's a genre that's > been basically "raped" in a similar way to what has been done to the ideas in > object-orientism in order to get it into the mainstream :) People think > dubstep is just a wobble bass... but it's actually more about the feel of the > dub break... <shrug> > > Julian > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc Julian, Generally good points but I'm pretty sure the Korn I've heard wasn't dubstep. It's also crap. T.M. :D _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
