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here's a nice article about the emerging new obscure genre in music called sometimes "witch house" - some of this music sort of attracts me somehow, when i want to listen to something more on the mysterious side. there are a number of songs towards the bottom of the above article that show perhaps what it's about.

interesting that they say that this genre is influenced by a darker side of dubstep and hip-hop (salem include more direct hip-hop chanting in some songs) as well as synth pop and current electronica, and by albums such as "untrue" by burial (never knew this is actually characterised as dubstep...) and "silent shout" by the knife

went to wikipedia and read some about dubstep (finally!) - the question tortured me for a while - what on earth is this dubstep? but the style they used on the posters and stuff sort of "polarized" me against it, i wrote it off as something of a cross between hip-hop and dub - well, which is not entirely wrong - it is certainly adventurous and varied as a style, or a movement - and there are also dark and bright sides to it - for example, indeed, burial that i mention above are quite dark and organic, what i'd call the real modern urban sound - but there are many dubstep musicians that are unlike burial - i mean - they are sort of closer to reggae, to something african, although they use heavy sampling, cut-up drum loops and stuff, and may be brighter, in that sort of smoked up manner (takitizy maaan..) - well that was my one-day long foray in dubstep - i went to that forum they talk about and found some clips from utube. introductory...?

this Pitchfork thing is actually good to maybe discover & listen to new stuff

marvellous zoopark today



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