accidental genius

KJI

So I went and listened to Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat which is an album of house music made five years before house was invented and it's also a hybrid with Indian music!!!

So now I'm wondering how many people have accidentaly created songs or albums of complete artistic mastery without ever realizing it

Salix Babylonika

Honestly I sort of dispute that the man "invented house music". You don't invent a genre of music just by coming up with the technical properties of it, there's generally another element to it. House is only House because of the Chicago House scene. 

There's a Cracked article on this subject by the way.

Obā-san

Acid House, not House.

Corporal Forsythe

I like a lot of electronic music so I got a subscription to digitally imported and the selection is incredible even if I don't understand the difference between "house" and "trance" and "goa-psy trance"

Salix Babylonika

If it sounds like Disco, it's House.

If it sounds like you just took more mushrooms than Mario, it's one of the latter two.

Corporal Forsythe

Oh okay. Well that's three that I sorta know about now

Füschlatz

If it sounds like an Autobot orgy, it's brostep.

KJI

Now I just learnt that there's an album called Experiments in Calypso by the guy that may or may not exist and it's killing me to know for sure

Tanya

"accidental genius"

No such thing!

Imipolex G

Actually, earlier today I came to the conclusion that most genius is accidental.