intellectual properties

lazer what?

an answer to the question what kind of music is this?, which i am often asked by people who aren’t entrenched in the scene:

Megasoid calls the music “psychedelic robo crunk remix action,” Rutledge has called it “future-blap,” Poirier uses the phrase “bastard bass” (click that link for an excellent forty minute mix Poirier put together for Pitchfork magazine) and the Glitch Mob’s edIT offered the phrase “digital crunk shit.” One of the scene’s widely acknowledged godfathers, the Los Angeles DJ and producer Daddy Kev, defined the connection this way: “The affinity comes down to bass. Ridiculous bass.”

–Lazer-Guided, Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker (!)

i’m going to be seeing some lazer bass tomorrow night – Modeselektor and the Glitch Mob @ MightySF.

(btw, we usually just call it “glitch”. lazers not included.)

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