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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Arturo Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In what ways do you think hip hop producers have pushed technology > forward lately? I don't think they've pushed that much on anything > for the last twenty years or so. I think a majority of popular hip > hop over the last few decades have just been a series of funk and soul > samples cut up for pop sensibilities, with a good amount of raiding > the electronic music side of things for instrumentation and software. > When 'new' sounds crop up to popular rotation in hip hop, it usually > just sounds like a specific kit on reason or something....Look at any > of the very top selling artists over the last 15 years or so, Dre, > Snoop, 2Pac, WuTang, Ghostface, Kanye, etc all the popular acts, they > have a good chunk of their best selling music that are repackaged > soul/funk songs with new lyrics. This doesn't mean it's not fun music, > just not really pushing. > > I guess I could say the same thing about the top selling electronic > artists though, that's mostly been the same boring sh*t remixed and > repackaged for years now.... hmmm........ > > -Arturo > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:14 AM, " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> fyi, just a few years back, juan atkins played a cutup of cybotron ala >> missy....and jeff mills, eg, samples a paid in full on shifty disco... >> examples of the interchange between between hip hop and techno >> >> although, at the moment, i wouldnt spend a buck on kanye's album, one >> cannot deny that hiphop producers certainly do push technology >> forward. >> >> ps, to all the naysayers of metro area's fabric cd...are you kidding me? >
