Neon Screams

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• Brooklyn drill — contrary to its borough-specific name — arose from two transatlantic cultures interacting online: American rappers using UK beats. At first glance, this kind of Internet-driven globalisation of ideas is worrying; you can’t shake the feeling that it’ll ultimately result in the emergence of a drab, homogenised global monoculture. There’s a fear that all the world’s fascinating sub-cultures — in all their glorious distinctiveness — are going to be completely diluted as they’re engulfed and ensnared in the Internet, to the point where you can’t recognise one from another. Luckily drill has shown that global interconnectivity can actually have an invigorating effect on music and relatively regionalised scenes. Through the Internet, drill has traversed the globe, but it’s been ... (查看原文)

  耳田 2022-02-17 18:42:44

• Listen how far dancehall’s come in a decade. In 2009 Vybz Kartel released his anthem “Dollar Sign”. As if to announce the emergence of a dancehall dynasty, ten years later his son Likkle Addi released a trap dancehall track of the same name. Vybz Kartel’s “Dollar Sign” is tough, muscular and imposing; Addi’s — which uses the “Fully Gaza Riddim” — is woozy, fumous and hexing. On the track Addi interpolates the chorus of his dad’s “Dollar Sign”, creating an eerie impression that it’s the same song, but at a later, more advanced stage of dematerialisation. If Kartel’s song had left behind the physical body and real space for the digital realm, this is what it would sound like. This all takes on an extra poignancy when you factor in the life circumstances of the father and the son. Vybz Karte... (查看原文)

  耳田 2022-02-17 21:46:52

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