anywhere in between. Its popularity peaked in the 1970s and declined during the 1980s, only to find a new generation of fans in the worlds of acid jazz, hip-hop, and garage. Although the Yamaha CP70 electric grand became widely accepted and a new generation of digital pianos has emerged, for many players there were only two main ...
and played the records – turned into an instrumentalist in his own right, by mixing different records together and exploiting a number of effects from the turntable. Rap and hip-hop also exploits music technology, using rhythmical speaking over drum loops and samples. As the influence of pop music has spread across the globe, countless new ensembles have been ...
mass-market sampling instruments has given rise to numerous developments in musical styles and techniques – from the stuttering, re-triggering effect of Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ to the drum loops of hip-hop and the often-overt lifting of whole, recognizable musical phrases into new compositions. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Vibraphone | Electric & Electronic ...
Like so many of black America’s most enduring musical genres, hip hop was born out of invention. When, as the 1970s came to a close, a combination of disco and big record company involvement had diluted funk and soul to the extent that it had become boring to go out to a club on a Saturday night, something rumbled out of New ...
an all-star cast for Supernatural (1999), which won nine Grammy Awards. It was followed by Shaman (2003) and All That I Am (2005), which mined the same vein, mixing hip-hop and pop with Santana’s familiar lyrical Latin guitar. In 2008, Santana worked with Marcelo Vieira on the album Marcelo Vieira’s Acoustic Sounds. Santana performed at the 2009 ‘American Idol’ ...
Hill, which may have been mostly about getting stoned, remains overtly Latino. Most interesting in this area of late are Orishas, Paris-based Cuban exiles, who combine hip-hop techniques and rapping (in Spanish) spectacularly with traditional Cuban music (scratched-mixed) and singing. Today, although gangsta seems to dominate, there are still plenty of alternatives. Rap and rock ...
– all white, middle-class boys – borrowed even more heavily from black music than their predecessors. Monstrous hits such as 1999’s ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’ showcased their melodic synthesis of hip-hop, R&B, soul and pop, while Backstreet clones such as *NSYNC emerged throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Given the current popularity of R&B-infused acts such as ...
to play, disco DJs would cut between two copies of the same record to create a funky drummer mélange. In the mid-1970s, too, Kool Herc invented the hip-hop technique of looping breaks into a continuous groove by using two turntables. The basis for future rappers’ street-poetry polemics had been laid. Seething Percussive Polyrhythms Hip-hop producers began using new ...
successful of a slew of British rappers – The Cookie Crew, Wee Papa Girl Rappers, Overlord X and She-Rockers included – who failed to equate sales figures with hip-hop credibility. Although, perhaps in Overlord X’s case sales and credibility did run in tandem. Derek B, the self-styled Bad Young Brother, had all the attitude, but ...
disco remained quite open: essentially, it referred to what would work on the dance floor. Even non-disco songs would become disco tunes, such as the Sugar Hill Gang’s hip-hop prototype ‘Rapper’s Delight’‚ or Blondie’s ‘Heart Of Glass’. Some artists even seemed to become disco for one week only, and not simply to revive a flagging career – the ...
Rumbling out of Los Angeles with different beats, a different look and a very different attitude, gangsta rap was hip hop’s belligerent street child. This new sound grew up at black discos and parties away from mainstream interference, and so, much as the original hip hop had, it quite literally pleased itself and harked back to ...
When The Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow made an impact on the mainstream pop charts in 1979, rap was immediately palmed off as a novelty. However, the style not only survived, but has proved to be so influential that, in varying degrees, pop, rock, heavy metal and reggae have all borrowed from hip hop ...
As the 1970s played out and disco took over, a new generation reacted against the commercial homogenization of black music by creating a completely new sound. This sound came from the streets and was accompanied by its own dress code, language, dance styles and attitude: hip hop was a way of life. Whereas disco was symbolized by ...
a film based on the life of the Mexican-American singer who was tragically shot by a former employee in 1995. Lopez’s musical debut had more to do with urban and hip-hop beats than Latin music, but by virtue of her Hispanic name, she was thrown into the ‘Latin explosion’ category. Equally importantly, her stature as a film star ...
It used to be easy to talk about rap or hip hop, because essentially everybody knew where they stood: the artists made 12-inch singles that didn’t get played on the radio; they dressed in acres of brightly coloured leather, with people break-dancing and body-popping around them; and nobody came from farther west than New Jersey. Back in the day ...
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