No Offense, But Why...

Yeah but the fun part is to Guess Who To Be Tee O or not to Be Tee O, that is a question .

what reputation?

TV on the Radio has some faint aspects of hip-hop (luckily without any rapping), but that's as far as I'll go...

I do enjoy trip-hop, though!

It's a branch of hip-hop employing mild minimalism and psychedelic elements to make it 'trippy'. I like the idea.

Shakespeare wrote: It's a branch of hip-hop employing mild minimalism and psychedelic elements to make it 'trippy'. I like the idea.

Yes it's trippy - that's characterized quite good - it's a blend of HIP-HOP (not RAP), PSYCHEDELIC and DUB and there are some goods acts like Massive Attack, Smith & Mighty, Fila Brazillia, Nightmares On Wax ... 

Edited by Rivertree - April 19 2008 at 12:01

Trip-hop is more a branch of electronica than hi-hop.

To Ivan: You keep going on about how Rap doesn't change samples, but that's just not true. Sure, there's plenty of older rap that does, but nowadays samples are very, very rare, and there's an equal amount of Rap that does use samples in inventive ways. Groups like Public Enemy often use more than one sample per song, and without exception the Bomb Squad adds in it's own production touches. They also have many songs devoid of samples like By The Time I Get To Arizona (Basically the best production ever). In Aesop Rock's No Splash the producer, Blockhead, uses multiple classical samples, an eerie female spoken word excerpt with a backbeat . Blockhead also composes his own sythesizer parts for most of Labor Days. I could sit here all day making a list of producers that do use samples in inventive ways, or come up with totally original beats, but you'll never like rap, so not much point is there? You don't like rap. Fine. But don't 'criticize what you can't understand'.

MHDTV wrote: To Ivan: You keep going on about how Rap doesn't change samples, but that's just not true. Sure, there's plenty of older rap that does, but nowadays samples are very, very rare, and there's an equal amount of Rap that does use samples in inventive ways. Groups like Public Enemy often use more than one sample per song, and without exception the Bomb Squad adds in it's own production touches. They also have many songs devoid of samples like By The Time I Get To Arizona (Basically the best production ever). In Aesop Rock's No Splash the producer, Blockhead, uses multiple classical samples, an eerie female spoken word excerpt with a backbeat . Blockhead also composes his own sythesizer parts for most of Labor Days. I could sit here all day making a list of producers that do use samples in inventive ways, or come up with totally original beats, but you'll never like rap, so not much point is there? You don't like rap. Fine. But don't 'criticize what you can't understand'.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 23 2008 at 01:21

Here's an example of sampling that I wholeheartedly approve of in a somewhat different vein. (Of course that may be because it is my own work.  )   Mash-ups are just plain boring, any 7th grade kid with Garage Band or Audacity could do that. 

This, thankfully,  is not rap but the entire audio track is made up of samples (spoken word and music) that are subsequently cut, twisted, and otherwise manipulated in a wide variety of ways.  Some will be immediately recognizable to members here, but I doubt strongly that even the most fanatical members could compile a complete list of the samples used in this A/V piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zznaHTtAyL8
(part 2 is being uploaded as I type)

This piece was presented at a national conference in October of 2006 and received a standing ovation from the audience of roughly 600.

P.S.:  Don't worry admins, all the requisite permissions from all the parties involved were requested and granted so long as the piece is presented in a "non-profit" format.


Edited by Trademark - April 23 2008 at 22:56