Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer
This is a thing I've recently got into, my library for it isn't huge yet.
Here is a Spotify playlist that I'm building up so you dudes can just listen to some cool shit. Turntablismz, dawg
Among the ones you posted, this is the only one that has been sticking with me. Except for the DJ Shadow one, but I already have that album among others. I have a really hard time explaining this genre, and it's related genres, but I do enjoy it quite a bit at times. I think when I first heard Daft Punk what must have been 10 years ago or more is what started me down that rabbit hole (not sayin it's the same genre at all btw).
Originally Posted by Boss1000
$5 album, glad to finally get an excuse to own it.
When I first heard this song, I can't really describe what my reaction to it was. I guess I just thought it was really phenomenal, unlike anything else I'd ever heard. It made me nostalgic in a weird way. I should really pick up their newest album, both Room On Fire and Is This It? where quite good. First Impressions of Earth didn't strike me quite as much, but it was still solid.
Among the ones you posted, this is the only one that has been sticking with me. Except for the DJ Shadow one, but I already have that album among others. I have a really hard time explaining this genre, and it's related genres, but I do enjoy it quite a bit at times. I think when I first heard Daft Punk what must have been 10 years ago or more is what started me down that rabbit hole (not sayin it's the same genre at all btw).
When I first heard this song, I can't really describe what my reaction to it was. I guess I just thought it was really phenomenal, unlike anything else I'd ever heard. It made me nostalgic in a weird way. I should really pick up their newest album, both Room On Fire and Is This It? where quite good. First Impressions of Earth didn't strike me quite as much, but it was still solid.
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Wikipedia includes as one of The Avalanches' genres "Plunderphonics". It's cute, but I question if it gets to the core of what makes their music. Electronica might be the best you can get for now.
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I get the same feeling about "Hard to Explain", and I think the reason is similar to the feeling I get when listening to chiptune:
See, this isn't even from a video game, so it doesn't bring me back to playing an old Zelda or Mario game specifically. But the style does evoke certain qualities from those games and from that time (for me). The sound is deliberately simple, synthetic, and blocky. The song itself is very... safe. You know where it's going, there are no surprises. (In contrast, I just bought The Doors' greatest hits, and you never know where Morrison is going. Or take Lawn Wake for example. I would call that a more "challenging" song that evokes some uncertainty, but yet is rewarding for it.)
But back to chiptune. I believe that the qualities of old video game music, like the limitations of the sound, length, and complexity, are mirrored in those that played them. Personally, I associate this kind of music with a simpler, safer time. A game is a contained adventure with boundaries. It's a closed, secluded experience. It is unlike uncertain, continuous, unbounded reality. It's comforting to be the master of a digital universe, to set things straight and be thanked until the princess gets kidnapped again or something.
And "Hard to Explain" does the same thing. If you listen to it, it's... muffled. It's not clear. There's a static-y quality to it. And the old-timey drum machine, too. Just compare it to any other song on the album (Example: "Someday"). It's evoking a previous time, I say. And not a particular decade, even. Just... past. The subject matter is unclear, but not particularly complex. I interpret it as a somewhat childish exchange or confusion, an inability to say what you mean to say. Which happens when you've got things broiling inside you without the eloquence to express them.
So your nostalgia feeling is totally justified.
This is something I've been wanting to put into an article, so that's why I leaped at the chance to talk about it.
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Originally Posted by B-Ferret
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