Gorillaz, Prog Related Hip Hop?

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   I really dig their music, but they are in no way 'prog' in the traditional sense.
I'm so sick of genre labeling, though. Seriously. Who cares if your favorite band gets listed here or not? Does that somehow mean you can't like them any longer? 

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JLocke Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: November 18 2007 Status: Offline Points: 4900	Posted: June 26 2010 at 16:39
	I really dig their music, but they are in no way 'prog' in the traditional sense. I'm so sick of genre labeling, though. Seriously. Who cares if your favorite band gets listed here or not? Does that somehow mean you can't like them any longer?

Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: June 26 2010 at 16:00
	They're quite innovative, just a bit boring. That said I watched some of their Glastonbury set on the TV last night. Looked like quite a good show.
	Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

Nerd42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 26 2010 Status: Offline Points: 36	Posted: June 26 2010 at 15:41
	Not familiar with Gorillaz, but I think there is something that unites what I see as good hip hop and good prog rock. The Problemadicts "Dark Side of Oz,", a concept album that both raps about and samples Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz, is a great example of this. On my own recent project, It's Pronounced "Forty Two" I use samples from Pink Floyd and the Alan Parsons Project and I plan to use more prog rock in sampling in the future because it sounds so awesome.

RoyFairbank Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 07 2008 Location: Somewhere Status: Offline Points: 1072	Posted: May 04 2010 at 18:43
	That stupid anime band... urgh Not over my dead bloated body [Note: haven't 'eard a note from em']

paganinio Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 07 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1327	Posted: May 04 2010 at 02:26
	ProgArchives has a category called Progressive Electronic. Gorillaz is far from progressive eletronic. Hip hop is almost never accepted on this site. Actually if you google "progressive hip hop" you won't find anything, because nobody is producing anything in that genre. Gorillaz's related group Deltron 3030, however, are sometimes called progressive. You can hear a lot of exploration and intelligence in that music.


Marty McFly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2009 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 3968	Posted: May 04 2010 at 02:23
	Walter, we of course appreciate your opinion (ahem), but you're not right. He's not suggesting anything, otherwise he would have posted this in "Suggest New Bands" thread, or have rules been changes since I've last looked ? He's just thinking about if there are some elements of Prog, or at least that's how I understand his post. I too don't think that Gorillaz will ever be here, nor I want them here. But how I remember them (I listened them let's say 4 years ago), there are some nice soundscapes and when we're at it so also landscapes. It's certainly not normal hip-hop, it's not normal alt rock and even I don't listen this music anymore, I somehow appreciate Demon Days, album that I know.
	There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my

stonebeard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057	Posted: May 04 2010 at 01:53
	Electronic artists often use soundscapes. If that's the criteria for being in PA now, we're better get to work adding 100,000 artists.
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WalterDigsTunes Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373	Posted: May 04 2010 at 01:25
	Sorry, I just had swallow some vomit. What's next, is gonna suggest Blur?

clarke2001 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 14 2006 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: May 03 2010 at 19:33
	I don't think Gorillaz have enough credibility to ever appear on PA, but I certainly thought of prog rock while listening to some of their keyboard soundscapes.
	Percussion, sir!

TheLastBaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 07 2009 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 206	Posted: May 03 2010 at 18:37
	Just curious if anyone has ever thought this after listening to self titled, demon days and plastic beach? the main reasons would be that all albums throw a bunch of different styles and instruments together, the last two albums are thematic, and their is definitely some atmospheric soundscapes elements to the last two albums. But I guess one could just call them experimental or avaunt- gard hip hop Edited by TheLastBaron - May 03 2010 at 18:45
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