Showing posts with label Vogue/Ballroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vogue/Ballroom. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

"Gran Reserva" - A rougher AmericanPupusa Mixshow #6

 The latest installment of the AmericanPupusa Mixshow focuses on the more rough and tumble side of my musical taste. A lot of shuffling breakbeats, chop ups, experimentation, filters, and atmosphereics coming your way with that thumpy boom boom that I dig. It's a close to get to ____core without going overboard on the music for music sake tip. I don't remember the tracklistings, but if you comment and ask, I can find out for you. Check the tags to be sure.

#baltimoreclub #drake #remix #wobble #futuregarage #tropicalbass #dubstep #machinedrum #frenchfries #ballroom #changotuki #roska #2deep #trap #bass #juke

Friday, November 25, 2011

Introducing the new "New Thing" - Vogue, Ballroom, etc...

Another manifestation of the soundsystem culture. We got the usual elements; strong speaker based sounds, danceability, chatters/toasters/rappers screaming on top, and dancing. And again, its coming from the marginal, intersectional, and hybrid identity. Rooted in the ambiguous, Black, gay, trans, inter, whatveryoucallit, this is not new, its coming from the same social space where House and Disco began. There it's southern complement, Sissy Bounce. It's also reinterpreting the "Vogue" era of the 90s with a stronger, industrial sound. Chatters scream on top of clangy-metallic beats, in the same way as Fatman Scoop or DJ Kool for instance. The dancing is elegant, with a nasty smear of skanking and BBoying... elegant sex dance. There is some element of the cypher/circle as you saw in old-school Bboying, watching this vid reminds me of seeing D.C. Beat your Feet or Chicago