What I have always wondered about these sorts of blogs is just how far you can go before someone cuts you down to just another pretentious “post-boasting wanker”. Its true, to blog requires an incredible sureness of yourself, or so it seems. To post your opinion of some piece of music,film or art as an almost objective truth leaves the impression that this blogger (aka me) is probably not going to be someone you want to pick flowers with on the weekends. Yet by own admission I often find myself trawling through pages upon pages of such pretentious smut in search for latest sound or the missing link to my next “super-mix”, and I reckon so too are you if you are reading this. I think for me this blogging adventure with my French counterparts is not to post-boast but to find out why people obsessively search through blogs on a daily basis despite this aura of arrogance that surrounds them. Everyone loves music and being creative right? Surely that's the reason...
Hmm well i suppose I should say something about who I am and where I came from...
Today I find that electronic music stands at the foreground of my music mind, though I still claim and have always been a bit of an eclectic mess. Born in South Africa to hippy parents meant every morning was a “good morning starshine morning” for me on the farm.
ube.com/watch?v=qVNy1Miw18Y
Everyone is influenced by their parents tastes in one way or another, for me this is not an exception. My dad is perhaps more to blame for the hippy fire-side, you know the “old man take a look at my life, I’m a lot like you” side of things. Where as my mum is something of a reggae connoisseur and as a result since moving to England with my mum, means every Christmas for the last 9 years has been a reggae Christmas. Lee Scratch Perry, Jah Cure, Gregory Isaacs are familiar “riddims” to be heard round the house.
Despite this,the first CD I ever bought was a South African Dance compilation - “Bump” to which I'm not sure I could accredit to anyone’s influence, something of an inspiring mystery as to this day no music has ever made me feel so cool. But i have been through all the other stereotypical come of age music phases-
The hip-hop phase, which I like to call my “Fubu wearing days”. Dirty south crunk style was how I thought I would roll as apposed to classic G-man style, YEAAAAAH!
Then the indie cindy stage, during my my 6th form days, where I worshipped Bloc Party and questioned my beliefs on life in a casual teen way.
But for me electronic music has stood the test of time its a form of music that has captured me by it limitless boundaries in what can and cant be done. It is the accessible nature of electronic music that allows producers to sample anything and everything,to not only evoke emotions through rhythm,synth and tempo but promote feelings of nostalgia through particular sounds.The craze in sampling old arcade games has no doubt captured some form of nostalgia to electronic music fans in someway or another.
Kwaito music was always around in South Africa and it is funny to see that this beat has followed me to the shores of western dance music. It is only just being uncovered as a diamond in the ruff to music producers such as Diplo and has maybe taken another form in afro-beat by Club Cheval and baile funk by Man Recordings.
Dj Mujava’s “Township Funk” was a great success and example of a well incorporated kwaito-western electronic track.
In this blog I would like to give an open look into the music I have come to love, this is just a grounding into perhaps why I have come to love what i love. Up to you.
Hmm well i suppose I should say something about who I am and where I came from...
Today I find that electronic music stands at the foreground of my music mind, though I still claim and have always been a bit of an eclectic mess. Born in South Africa to hippy parents meant every morning was a “good morning starshine morning” for me on the farm.
ube.com/watch?v=qVNy1Miw18Y
Everyone is influenced by their parents tastes in one way or another, for me this is not an exception. My dad is perhaps more to blame for the hippy fire-side, you know the “old man take a look at my life, I’m a lot like you” side of things. Where as my mum is something of a reggae connoisseur and as a result since moving to England with my mum, means every Christmas for the last 9 years has been a reggae Christmas. Lee Scratch Perry, Jah Cure, Gregory Isaacs are familiar “riddims” to be heard round the house.
Despite this,the first CD I ever bought was a South African Dance compilation - “Bump” to which I'm not sure I could accredit to anyone’s influence, something of an inspiring mystery as to this day no music has ever made me feel so cool. But i have been through all the other stereotypical come of age music phases-
The hip-hop phase, which I like to call my “Fubu wearing days”. Dirty south crunk style was how I thought I would roll as apposed to classic G-man style, YEAAAAAH!
Then the indie cindy stage, during my my 6th form days, where I worshipped Bloc Party and questioned my beliefs on life in a casual teen way.
But for me electronic music has stood the test of time its a form of music that has captured me by it limitless boundaries in what can and cant be done. It is the accessible nature of electronic music that allows producers to sample anything and everything,to not only evoke emotions through rhythm,synth and tempo but promote feelings of nostalgia through particular sounds.The craze in sampling old arcade games has no doubt captured some form of nostalgia to electronic music fans in someway or another.
Kwaito music was always around in South Africa and it is funny to see that this beat has followed me to the shores of western dance music. It is only just being uncovered as a diamond in the ruff to music producers such as Diplo and has maybe taken another form in afro-beat by Club Cheval and baile funk by Man Recordings.
Dj Mujava’s “Township Funk” was a great success and example of a well incorporated kwaito-western electronic track.
In this blog I would like to give an open look into the music I have come to love, this is just a grounding into perhaps why I have come to love what i love. Up to you.
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