It's almost the end of the year, and i have just signed up for an adventure. I bought a ticket to a psytrance party, spread over multiple nights during the Chinese New Year break
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Man, being a show booker/promoter/producer is such a high-stress job!
I love the stuff that comes out of SE Asia, Middle East and across Africa, since they use rhythm patterns that really catch me as an ingrained Westerner totally unawares.
Synths and equipment like loopers and programmed beat pads means people can be a one-person band, and I think that just gets SO MUCH MORE music get made.
Total cosign on how loopers and other electronic kit can really open things up for performers of traditional instruments. It's really cool to hear what people come up with when they have a chance to take every neat little noise they can coax out of their instrument and combine it back together into something new.
The rhythms on the Jantra album are definitely unexpected coming from western background. They have that dubby feeling where the percussion is twice as fast the base groove, which gives the sense that it's both too fast and too slow to comfortably dance to, but then his keyboard playing is in triplets which seems to balance it out again. Judging from the pictures it's a scene only enjoyed by men, which kinda figures in that part of the world, so i wonder what the women get up to?
Here is something i found with similar beats presented in a more accessible pop-y context:
U (مالو) - DJ Teddy Jam & SAL Feat. Aisha Aljabal , Damby & Dynasty
The accessibility and breadth of possibility of electronic sound production equipment just makes anything possible!
I've enjoyed watching videos from Red Means Recording and a few other people who have done similar live-production videos (not personally endorsed... just their newest vid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSP36Ecmk0Q Using small programmable tracking/looping workstations.
There is just so much music being made everywhere... by almost everyone. And I am always dismayed that what ends up being heard POPULARLY is so damned lame compared to everything that the nameless masses have been creating in their basements.
Have you ever seen Rico Loop before? He's a Berlin one man band who is just a wizard with a looper. I've seen him live a couple times and it's amazing. Check it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWc3W8WgFWw
I finally broke down and rejoined Instagram because that's where all my raver friends share party details. The cool thing is that most of them dont really post pictures. If they take a good pic while we're out (mind you no cameras on thr danceflloor) they'll either send it directly to you or post it in the group chat in Signal.
I would never have expected someone on LJ to know about suomi! I guess the context is "suomisaundi" genre of psytrance? That genre really turns up the silliness to 11. I think it's hilarious, but i never heard it at a party before. To be honest i'm not sure if it would remain as funny for a full set! That said, in the late 90s in Australia there was a trend of "let's trip everybody out" gimmicks where DJs would play psytrance of gradually increasingly silliness before eventually dropping some tacky 60s Mexican pop music or 80s hair metal or anything they could find that was entirely opposite to techno. I can't say it was always the funnest stuff to trance out to, but it definitely made for memorable moments, which is part of the magic of these events.
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I love the stuff that comes out of SE Asia, Middle East and across Africa, since they use rhythm patterns that really catch me as an ingrained Westerner totally unawares.
Synths and equipment like loopers and programmed beat pads means people can be a one-person band, and I think that just gets SO MUCH MORE music get made.
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The rhythms on the Jantra album are definitely unexpected coming from western background. They have that dubby feeling where the percussion is twice as fast the base groove, which gives the sense that it's both too fast and too slow to comfortably dance to, but then his keyboard playing is in triplets which seems to balance it out again. Judging from the pictures it's a scene only enjoyed by men, which kinda figures in that part of the world, so i wonder what the women get up to?
Here is something i found with similar beats presented in a more accessible pop-y context:
U (مالو) - DJ Teddy Jam & SAL Feat. Aisha Aljabal , Damby & Dynasty
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I've enjoyed watching videos from Red Means Recording and a few other people who have done similar live-production videos
(not personally endorsed... just their newest vid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSP36Ecmk0Q
Using small programmable tracking/looping workstations.
There is just so much music being made everywhere... by almost everyone. And I am always dismayed that what ends up being heard POPULARLY is so damned lame compared to everything that the nameless masses have been creating in their basements.
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I finally broke down and rejoined Instagram because that's where all my raver friends share party details. The cool thing is that most of them dont really post pictures. If they take a good pic while we're out (mind you no cameras on thr danceflloor) they'll either send it directly to you or post it in the group chat in Signal.
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There's definitely something cool about the broad human appreciation of dancing to those sounds, arrived at however it's arrived at.
Hope you really enjoy the finding out what this experience'll be like, and the along-the-ways too.
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