Sunday, April 7, 2013

Glitch-hop and related genres; a sample selection

Big Gigantic - Sky High
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwFXNOD8LY

interstellar crossroads between the Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack, bass-infused hip-hop beats, and a little flair of jazz funk. What?


Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_POkOLy2rM

beautiful, glitchy, laid back trip-hop/Bonobo-sounding stuff with piano and strings, more minimalistic than most of the songs in this note but not any less affecting.


GRiZ - Smash the Funk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsSzq5h2-tc

killer hip-hop/glitch-hop/dubstep beats, laser melodies, and more jazz interluding.


Heyoka - Two Sea Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PlVXfTqFac

an addictive main synth line complemented by nice, heavy undulating bass and lighter melodies. Dude has some dreads.


KOAN Sound - 80s Fitness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllm-XHQwIY

'80s fitness audio samples and big, catchy, glitchy beats, plus some great and sometimes hilarious retro-sounding melodies.


Minnesota - Breathe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROCOj7uTcY8

repeating, spacy, hypnotic main melody progresses and builds to a heavy, bassy synth line that continues underneath evolving melodies.


Opiuo - Bill Bro Baggins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=floj4GL3log

saw this guy live recently, ultra funky, love the organ-sounding melodies and the off-beat rhythms.


PANTyRAiD - Jail Bait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewh0bZ0oV7Q

brilliant bass and synth lines, great use of the keyboard synth. Makes me want to use adjectives like 'sick' and 'dope', must be good.


Tipper - Higgins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2HRcqWX2uM

alien and unpredictable, swirls and thunks and I don't even know, the dude is crazy.


Vibesquad - Janitor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAdIGfLwhk

saw him live with Opiuo, less funky but really inventive and original, and he was smiling hard the entire set.

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