Poetry in Music - Dance music? Bang the base.
Modern poetry in 'dance' music. An example one of my all time BT favourites (I used the track frequently in my DJ "sets", its so powerful, emotional and beautiful with such uplifting undertones to quite a dark primary concept!)http://www.lyrics.ly/lyrics.php/B.T./Lyrics/Running+Down+The+Way+Up can't hear it here of course :)
Another album I recommend is BT's Movements in Still life. It starts of more break beat and hip hop (generally the 4 4 time is broken after the first or second beat to give a funkier sound - I'm no music expert though). It quickly moves into the more ethereal orchestrated sounds using both synth and analogue instruments. Tracks "Mercury and Solace" and "Dreaming" are more "housey" (in 4x4) when it gets to "Running down the way up" it moves into a much more developed epic sound with the emotional thread then moves back into the house, with a bit more techno - the album on Amazon now is actually not one I own because I had the 1998/99 version... he did an update, damn :)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TK6A/qid=1095719689/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/026-9343341-7498856
BT is on the Perfecto Label which is Paul Oakenfold's label. Paul Oakefold is one of dance music (house and trace) biggest names but is musical influence and involvement runs broad and deep. He even signed Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (i.e. he made Will Smith!) and Salt n Peppa when he was an A&R guy. He was also pretty much single handily responsible for the Ibiza phenomena. He was also involved in producing for the Happy Monday's and had a touch into the Stone Roses for a bit I believe... Ian Brown from the Stone Roses has some some great solo work and SR's "Fools Gold" is a fab tune!
So many of the people involved in the "banging" dance music clubbing scene reach much deeper into music and the music biz and gem's like Nick Warren, Paul Okenfold, Jon Seaman and BT are either making, producing or DJ'ing some of the deepest, most interesting "non 'acoustic' non rock" music on the planet... its where being a DJ is about sourcing great music people might not even have heard of and getting a sound by mixing together a bunch of such tracks... this isn't your average hit after hit mix DJ'ing :-)
"Dance" is really beat based music and is the oldest form on the planet... ever since we started banging on things to make them into drums... so the funny thing is that you don't need synths and samples to get some amazing beat based sounds... but of course we are in the 21st century so break out your Yamahas and your Roland 808's and get a producing :-)
posted by Matthew Woodget @ 3:51 AM
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