Go, Monkey, Go
Sep. 12th, 2003 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyFollowing yesterday's SHOCK REVELATION, I am looking for more music.
I'm interested in broadening my musical horizons a little, because I have something of a contradiction in my head. I have always rubbished Techno and Dance music (the former moreso than the latter) as uninspired and repetetetetetive. Listening to the same thumping bass line sixteen times in a row may be entertaining when you are out of your face on drugs (something of which I have no experience), but that is not a selling point for me. Quite the opposite.
However, I have come to the worrying conclusion that some of the music I like may in fact be techno of a sort. I'm talking about the music of Mr James Venable, in his work the Powerpuff Girls TV series (and movie). There's a specific style, a light, rapid, varied drumbeat accompanied by a variety of orchestral and electronic melodies that I really enjoy. Good examples of it on Venables' Listen page are Monkey On The Loose and Mojo & Girls Build. If somebody could tell me if there's a name for that particular genre, or link me to a band that plays it, I'd be much obliged.
I'm interested in broadening my musical horizons a little, because I have something of a contradiction in my head. I have always rubbished Techno and Dance music (the former moreso than the latter) as uninspired and repetetetetetive. Listening to the same thumping bass line sixteen times in a row may be entertaining when you are out of your face on drugs (something of which I have no experience), but that is not a selling point for me. Quite the opposite.
However, I have come to the worrying conclusion that some of the music I like may in fact be techno of a sort. I'm talking about the music of Mr James Venable, in his work the Powerpuff Girls TV series (and movie). There's a specific style, a light, rapid, varied drumbeat accompanied by a variety of orchestral and electronic melodies that I really enjoy. Good examples of it on Venables' Listen page are Monkey On The Loose and Mojo & Girls Build. If somebody could tell me if there's a name for that particular genre, or link me to a band that plays it, I'd be much obliged.
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Date: 2003-09-12 04:32 am (UTC)Since music is one of my hobbies, I really ought to take a stab at this one, but I'm not sure where to start. I dig it too, though, so I'll try and find out with ya at some point (if nobody else beats me to it).
Incidental music, bordering some sort of power-tech-bubblegum-j-pop? Or something?...
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Date: 2003-09-12 06:55 am (UTC)Mmm, power-tech-bubblegum-j-pop... I don't know about bubblegum, but power-tech sounds about right. It's definitely got to have an energy to it. J-pop ... well, I object to the genre. Not because I don't like the music (I haven't heard enough to judge) but I think it's an inaccurate term. The "J" stands for Japan, but does all pop music that comes from Japan really fall into the J-pop category?
I've heard some J-pop that I really liked (there's one called "Angel", which probably doesn't narrow it down, and another which I think is the theme tune to an anime called Gravitation?). I've heard some others that I don't like at all - actually I think that stuff was too frenetic. It was just full-on, 240bpm musical diarrhoea (sp?).