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Obā-san · 2014-07-13 20:47:53

(*yamaha pad sound and reversed drum samples*)

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-13 20:50:24

I know explaining the joke kills the funny, but I am seriously curious here.

Obā-san · 2014-07-13 20:52:49

i was thinking about that political cartoon that centie posted in her thread and then i was thinking about the gerogerigegege and then i was thinking about all the vaporwave and witch house albums with components of their cover art stolen from japanese CD packaging

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-13 21:00:56

You know, I've discussed this elsewhere with other people, but the line between witch house and vaporwave is pretty thin, isn't it? I mean, both are just species of chopped 'n' screwed with different but overlapping aesthetic aims and a strong Plunderphonics influence.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-13 21:01:56

I know there is no feasible way you (or for that matter, anyone) means harm by it, but it really bothers me when people call Chopped n' Screwed a genre.

lee4hmz · 2014-07-13 21:02:34

It's more of a production technique than a genre. It's almost like saying Autotune is a genre.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-13 21:09:41

Mo The Show said:
I know there is no feasible way you (or for that matter, anyone) means harm by it, but it really bothers me when people call Chopped n' Screwed a genre.

In the sense that it's a method or that you consider it the domain of the late producer?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-14 00:46:47

It's a remixing method, ye.

Elements of said method have made their way into certain branches of hip-hop but it's not a genre on its own.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-14 00:57:17

OK, I get what you mean. I was trying not to treat it as a genre per se, but it's hard to articulate that vaporwave and witch house are both built on a mixture of two distinctive sampling and production approaches while not technically falling into the genres that they are most associated with.

Hmm. Maybe like this: Vaporwave is chopped 'n' screwed incidental and lounge music with a neo-Dada/Plunderphonics-inspired aesthetic; meanwhile, witch house is a variety of dark ambient house that uses the same methods to similar ends.

Obā-san · 2014-07-14 00:59:23

witch house dont sound like house at all tho

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-14 01:01:28

The people who originally invented the term as a joke did make house music in that style, if I'm not mistaken, though it has moved in a somewhat different direction.

What is witch house, really?

Obā-san · 2014-07-14 01:06:43

lo-fi, usually instrumental hip-hop with dark ambient leanings and slowed down pilfered samples

Obā-san · 2014-07-14 01:09:47

generally they also have like super huge fuzzy pad sounds going on

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-14 01:10:02

witch house is a redheaded stepchild, no one will admit to it belonging to any wider genre.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-14 01:13:27

Looking up some of it to refresh my memory, it sounds like a halfway point between instrumental hip-hop and, well, slowed-down house music. The sampling style is clearly house-influenced as much as it is hip-hop-influenced, although the way the samples are treated is definitely within that chopped 'n' screwed tradition. And it is indeed very self-consciously lo-fi and druggy.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-14 01:14:14

There's potential in the sound here, but I feel like it tends to be wasted...

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-07-14 01:17:43

...fuck it, I might just make a song in a weird fucked up version of this style for kicks.

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