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| Vinyl
records |
Vinyl
records are not just refusing to die – they are positively
thriving.
In 2005 sales of 7in vinyl singles reached 1,072,608, compared
with only 178,831 in 2001.
Sales of singles today though are still very small compared with
1979, when singles sales in Britain peaked at 89 million. Most
chart-toppers today sell around 30,000 a week, with sales of as
little as 13,000 putting artists in the top 10.
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Surprisingly
over 60% of Arctic Monkeys’ singles sales have been
on vinyl and similar figures lifted the last White Stripes
single into the top 10. Even Lily Allen broke through on
flat black plastic with her single ‘LDN’ being
launched on 500 limited vinyl copies and immediately selling
out.
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It’s
mainly independent labels that are fuelling the vinyl boom
and they often release something by a new group with artwork
and packaging that represent them stylistically.
Where the 7in vinyl was once the only format, downloads and
the much-derided CD single have taken over. However the CD
faces
imminent extinction in probably a year’s time.
One of the main saviours of black plastic has been the company
Simply Vinyl, which Mike Loveday started in 1997, licensing
vinyl rights from record companies that had given up on the
format.
Before long high street stores such as Virgin and HMV were
restocking vinyl albums alongside their extensive 12in dance
records section.
EMI can sell 10,000 vinyl copies of a Beach Boys re-release
of ‘Pet
Sounds’ immediately.
Many believe that vinyl's analogue sound has a richness lacking
on CD and MP3 digital files. Cutting engineers get maximum
loudness and minimum distortion when carving the sound into
the lacquer
from which the record is made - an art form in which Britain
leads the way.
Vinyl is back but the truth is that it never went away.
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| The Beatles |
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The
Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
and Ringo Starr. The group had more than fifty top 40 hit
singles and were the biggest musical act of the twentieth
century.
They were the first British band to achieve major success in the United States,
having twenty-seven Number 1 hits in the USA & UK alone. EMI estimated in
1985 that the band had sold over a billion records worldwide. Their ballad ‘Yesterday’ — written
and sung by Paul McCartney — is the most-covered song in the history of
recorded music (about 2,500 versions of it exist). |
In 1957 Paul McCartney and John Lennon met at a church fete and
later formed a band. George Harrison joined the band shortly after,
followed by Pete Best - their original drummer. The group was known
as The Quarrymen and began to play gigs around Liverpool. The band
had several different names before settling on The Beatles.
The group gained a lot of experience playing in Hamburg, Germany
and in November 1961, during a Cavern Club concert in Liverpool,
the Beatles were spotted by Brian Epstein. By the following year
Brian, in his role as the band’s manager, secured a record
contract for the group.
Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr and the Beatles recorded
their first single 'Love Me Do', which reached No 17 in the charts.
Their second single 'Please Please Me' was the first of many to
reach the number 1 spot. Beatlemania reached America in 1964, with
73 million viewers tuning in to watch the band play on the Ed Sullivan
show.
Following this, The Beatles made their first film - "A Hard
Days Night", before going on a world tour taking in Australia,
the Far East and again, America. Eventually hysterical fans made
live performances impossible. The Beatles performed their last
concert in Candlestick Park, San Francisco on 29th August 1966.
The psychedelic period followed - flower power, hippies, drugs,
The Maharishi and Indian music. After the death of Brian Epstein,
The Beatles decided to form their own company, Apple. In 1969 The
Beatles made their last live appearance on the roof of Apple's
Saville Row building and the group finally broke up in 1975.
On 8 December 1980, John was murdered in New York by a crazed fan,
putting an end to the hope of millions of fans that The Beatles
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| Elvis Presley |
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Elvis
Presley is known as ‘The King of Rock 'n' Roll’ and
remains a popular star. His legendhas grown even stronger
since his early death at the age of 42 in August 1977.
Elvis was born in a two- room house in Misssippi in 1935 and moved to Memphis,
Tennessee in 1948. His musical influences were the pop and country music of the
time, the gospel music he heard in church and the black R&B he absorbed on
historic Beale Street as a Memphis teenager.
In 1954, he began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in
Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956,
he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that challenged the
social barriers of the time. As a result he started a whole new era of American
music and popular culture. |
He starred in 33 successful films, made history with his television
appearances
and specials, and performed at over 1,000, often record-breaking,
live concert performances on tour and in Las Vegas. Globally he
has sold over one billion records and his American sales have earned
him gold, platinum or multi-platinum awards for 150 different albums
and singles, far more than any other artist. |
| Cream |
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Cream,
the 60’s super group, was thought by many to have revolutionised
the sound of electric music forever. The group’s lifespan
was an all too short three years but it contributed greatly
to the evolution of electric music paving the way for the
hard rock of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.
Cream was
well known for great studio songs such as the hits ‘I
Feel Free’, ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ and ‘White
Room’, not to mention the world's first record ever to
go platinum, the 1968 ‘Wheels of Fire’.
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However
Cream’s
hallmark sound developed and shone through during their high-powered
live tours. Cream would play extended
solos, which sometimes lasted for more than 20 minutes. Employing
great improvisational skill, Cream had a pent-up energy that
it applied to a new approach to music.
Though Eric Clapton was to become the best known of the three
musicians, Cream was a group of equals. Clapton had long been
recognised as a genius of modern blues guitar. His masterful
solos floated over the powerful pumping of Jack Bruce's electric
bass and the rolling sea of percussion that was the trademark
sound of Ginger Baker.
All three musicians soloed simultaneously during live sets.
After establishing a basic rhythm pattern and singing a verse
or two, the group would explode into extended, complex free-for-alls.
Clapton described their live sets as sometimes teetering on the
brink of open warfare.
No single
member of the band dominated over the others. As the lead vocalist,
harmonica player, and main composer of the group’s
material, Jack Bruce was closest to being a front man for the
group. He proved to be a masterful composer, and was without
doubt the greatest bass guitarist of the time.
But the musical personalities of Clapton and Baker were much
too prominent to be overshadowed. The stage would serve as a
musical battlefield for three players with vast differences in
personality and background. It was these differences, which would
fuel the flames of the fire that was the improvisational glory
of Cream.
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| Carlos Santana |
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Legendary
guitarist Carlos Santana was born in Mexico, the son of a virtuoso
violinist who taught his son to play the violin by the age of
5. This early exposure to a musical instrument began a lifelong
relationship with music.
Carlos began playing guitar very soon
after learning to play the violin, spending any spare time he
had trying to copy the sounds he heard coming from his music
heroes – John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and T. Bone Walker.
Listening to these early ‘greats’ gave him the inspiration
that helped shape today’s musical culture and, like his
father, a virtuoso musician was born. |
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In
1961 Carlos moved to San Francisco, forming the Santana Blues Band
and playing cool, Latin-based blues to his ever increasing number
of fans in the US and Europe.
The
early 60s were a breeding ground for the emerging music giants of
today. Massive success followed these early beginnings and by the
end of the decade, Carlos had helped define an era by playing at
the now legendary Woodstock festival of ’69.
Santana has sold over 90million records and performed ‘live’
to more than 100 million people worldwide. He
continues his tradition of collaborating with a diverse mix of fellow
groundbreaking artists and to embody his unique brand of playing,
using his music to speak to new generations worldwide.
By
R.Linley, Sunderland
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| Rap |
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Today’s
rap has its roots in the ‘toasting’ and dub, talk-over
methods of reggae music.
In the early 70s a Jamaican DJ, known
as Kool , brought his particular brand of music to New York’s
West Bronx
New Yorkers were not quite ready for him or his music,
which involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions
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Kool
had to adapt his early rap style by chanting over the instrumentals
of the popular songs of the day. Because these instrumentals were
short, he had to find a way of extending them by using an audio
mixer and two identical records, replacing the chosen segment over
and over to extend the track.
Early
DJs began to elaborate on this early form of rap by incorporating
little rhymes and adding their own versions of popular street talk.
This was commonly known as ‘engineering‘. As this type
of customised track became more and more popular and the dubs became
more complex, today’s ‘Rap’ was born.
BY
Dj HouseSmith
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| JIMI
HENDRIX Profile of a ‘semi-demigod’ |
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The
Legend. Jimi Hendrix, real name Johnny Allen Hendrix was born
in
Seattle, USA on 27th November 1942. He was one of the greatest
and most influential guitarists of the 20th century. Left-handed
and
self-taught he used to spend up to 8 hours at weekends, on his
own practicing. He formed his unique style of playing before
he eventually
joined his first local R&B while he was still at school in the
USA.
After
school he enlisted as a paratrooper, and while he was training to
jump out of aircraft, formed a band group called The King Kasuals
with a bass player called Billy Cox. Hendrix' career as a paratrooper
ended when he broke his ankle, at which point he started playing
backing guitar on tours in various groups in the early 1960s.
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His
big break came in Greenwich Village in New York in 1966, when Chas
Chandler saw Hendrix (Chas was a fantastic bass player with
The
Animals – House of the Rising sun). He was knocked out with
what he heard and persuaded him to go come to London in September
1966.
Chandler introduced Hendrix to the British music scene and became
his co-manager along with Mike Jeffries. Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend
and the rest of the UK music legends of the 60s were all influenced
to some extent by Hendrix' showmanship and sound. In December The
Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first single ‘Hey Joe’
which climbed into the ‘UK Top Ten’ followed by ‘Purple
Haze’ which got to number 3.
Over the next few years he took the UK, Europe and America by storm-
burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival, ‘bending’
The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock and leaving a legacy on guitarists
of all generations. Lots have imitated him but no one yet has surpassed
his style and technique - he played left-handed on a re-strung right-handed
Fender Stratocaster played upside down!) For me and thousands of
others he remains the greatest guitarist of all times!
His live performance at the Isle of Wight festival a few years later
was his last. On September 18th 1970 his girlfriend, Monika Dannemann,found
him dead in bed. The inquest recorded death caused by suffocation
due to inhalation of vomit.
By Jon Randall , Bolton
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Today
Dance music is any kind of electronic music specifically designed
for dancing, from the usual 120 beats per minute of House music
to the myriad of morphed combinations you can hear in local
night clubs most nights of the week.
In the mid-1930s when ‘Live’ music was played
to the ‘masses’, live music was usually played
by bands in dance halls. These bands played mostly popular
traditional jazz or swing music of the day. You either went
to a dance hall or bought a 78” record of the same music
to play at home.
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One
of the earliest innovators of pre-recorded dance music played in
the clubs, was an ex-miner from Yorkshire , Jimmy Saville. In the
1940s he hired a room above a working men’s club in a sleepy
town called Otley in Yorkshire to play his 78” records on
his home–made mobile equipment. There was no ‘live
band’ – the first DJ in club land!
Saville used two record turntables, an innovation at the time and
toured the Northern circuit of pubs and clubs. The culture of Dance
music exploded from these early beginnings exposing people to new
trends and sounds. Jukeboxes and DJs are all part of this culture.
As
technology advances improvisers of dance are constantly morphing
and reinventing with as many combinations as can be imagined creating
new genre sounds and tribes.
DANCE
STYLE: Dance music has a strong, steady beat, usually performed
on electronic instruments or computers. New sounds and styles are
being created almost weekly and being produced by well known DJs
such as Judge Jules (see picture) as well as future stars as yet
unknown using software and home computers.
DANCE GENRES: Disco / House / Acid / Progressive / Tribal / Hardcore
/ Trance / Happy Hardcore / Bouncy Hard House / Jungle / Drum’n’Bass
/ Techno / Gabba / Breakbeat / UK Garage / Tech-House
BY Paul Giddens, Leeds
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| Moog
Synthesiser |
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Bob
Moog, the grandfather of electronic music, died recently at
the age of 71.
His
iconic Moog synthesiser was used by the Beatles, the Grateful
Dead and The Doors among many others to create distinctive
music on many albums of the 1960s and 70s. Recently many musicians,
including Brian Eno, The Cure, Fatboy Slim and Stereolab have
kept the sound alive, even though analogue synthesisers are
being overtaken by digital instruments.
Moog
built his first electronic instrument called a Theremin when
he was 14 and eventually he sold around a 1000 Theremin kits
from 1961 to 63 out of his apartment in New York. In 1964 Moog
exhibited new circuits that could produce sound at the Audio
Engineering Society Convention in 1964. Shortly afterwards
he began to manufacture electronic music synthesisers. |
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It was Wendy Carlos' Grammy award-winning album, Switched-On Bach,
which brought Moog to prominence. It made making electronic music
popular and the Moog synthesiser a household name. Before long many
musicians and groups, were using Moog synthesisers including he
MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser"
that was introduced in 1970.
" The sound defined progressive music as we know it,"
said Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
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| Fender Guitars |
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Fender’s
iconic guitars such as the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision
Bass and Jazz Bass are known the world over as the instruments
that started the rock revolution.
These
instruments were, and continue to be, highly prized among
the hottest guitarists - from Buddy Holly to Kurt Cobain to
Eric Clapton (see picture of Eric playing a Stratocaster)
and everyone in between.
In
the 1940’s, a California
inventor named Leo Fender looked at the way electric guitars
were being made and realised that he could improve the process.
In 1951 he introduced the Broadcaster, a solid-body guitar
that was eventually renamed the Telecaster guitar.
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Leo
then introduced the revolutionary Precision Bass guitar and for
the first time ever bass players were able to amplify their playing.
The importance of these two instruments is that, together, they
were the foundation for the modern rock group. The electric Fender
instruments made it possible for smaller groups of musicians, not
just big bands, to get together and be heard.
In 1954 Leo introduced the Stratocaster guitar that was to become
the most popular and most influential electric guitar of all time.
It incorporated many design innovations that were based upon feedback
from professional musicians.
The most important
was the addition of the new Fender vibrato, or “tremolo” bridge.
This innovation was originally intended to allow guitarists to bend
the strings to achieve a sound similar to a pedal steel guitar, which
was very popular at the time among guitarists playing country music.
In 1965, because
of poor health, Leo Fender sold his company to corporate giant
CBS. In 1985, a group of employees and investors
bought the company back from CBS. This sale put the name Fender back
into the hands of a small group of musically dedicated people committed
to creating the world’s best guitars and amplifiers.
When artists first started requesting specific features for their
guitars, they were looked after on an individual basis. Today, professional
guitarists and enthusiasts can work with the renowned Fender Custom
Shop in Corona, California, to create their own dream instruments. |
| Gibson electric guitars |
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By
the time the Gibson company began work on its first electric
guitar in 1935 , the company had a 40-year tradition of quality
and innovation to uphold.
The
first Gibson electric had to be nothing less than the best
electric guitar the world had ever seen. In the spring of 1935,
Gibson enlisted musician Alvino Rey to help develop a prototype
pickup with engineers at the Lyon & Healy company in Chicago.
In the years after World War II, the electric guitar came of
age and Gibson entered a golden of age of innovation developing
a wide range of electric guitars. Gibson introduced the Les Paul
Model in 1952. The Les Paul quickly grew into a family of four
models-the Junior, Special, Standard and Custom-all of which
would become Gibson classics.
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Gibson's top models sported a new
tune-o-matic bridge, which was introduced on the Les Paul Custom
in 1954 and is still the standard Gibson electric guitar bridge.
Gibson pushed on into the 1960s with two more bold, modern solidbody
lines-the double-cutaway SG models of '61 and the reverse-body Firebirds
of '63. By the end of 1965, a foundation of classic models had been
laid that would carry Gibson through the rest of the century.
The
home of Gibson electric guitars today is 'Gibson USA' a business
built in 1974 in Nashville specifically for the production of Gibson's
Les Paul guitars. Two legendary guitarists joined Gibson- B.B. King
in 1980 with the Lucille model and Chet Atkins in 1982 with his
new concept of a solidbody acoustic guitar.
Today's Gibson electric guitars represent the history as well as
the future of the electric guitar. The models whose designs have
become classics-the ES-175, ES-335, Flying V, Explorer, Firebird,
SGs and Les Pauls-are a testament to Gibson's wide appeal, spanning
more than four decades of music styles (See picture of Keith Richards
playing a Gibson guitar).
Gibson's
close relationship with musicians is manifest in endorsement models
from King, Atkins and jazz greats Howard Roberts and Herb Ellis,
plus new Les Pauls made to the personal specifications of rock stars
Jimmy Page and Joe Perry. In 1994, Gibson's Centennial year, the
new Nighthawk model won an industry award for design, setting the
stage for a second hundred years of Gibson quality and innovation.
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| House |
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House
got its name from the Warehouse club in Chicago, where House
DJ Frankie Knuckles (see picture) would record the instrumental
part of a record and loop it onto a reel to reel tape, or
increase the rhythm section of a record with an added drum
beat. This type of kick-drum technique is still used in producing
House today.
The
first House record is considered to be by Jesse Saunders and
Vince Lawrence, 'On and On'‘ released in 1983. This was
the beginning of sampling and music montages led by DJs and
facilitated by the new technology of the mid 1980s The interest
of House was spread around the world by producers such as Marshall
Jefferson and Steve Hurley promoting their unique brand of
sound from House clubs into the mainstream charts. |
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As it grew, House split into two camps – Soul based and the
impersonal machine sound. The trance sound of the machine giving
rise to Acid house and the UK dance scene. As it progressed House
music became THE club dance music of the 90’s dominating
clubs worldwide.
HOUSE
STYLE: A mutation of ‘fast’ sounds concentrating
on rhythm and synthetic noises and various repetitions creating
a trance-like resonance.
HOUSE
NAMES: Frankie Knuckles / Jackmaster / Jesse Saunders /
Steve Hurley / Marshall Jefferson
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| Rock |
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In
the mid-1960s, students at colleges and universities around
the world were becoming more vocal about political issues than
ever before. Civil rights,the war in Vietnam, government education
policies and feminism were all hotly debated issues for young
people.
Certain
types of music seemed to encompass this new feeling of rebellion,
social conscience and freedom of expression. Rock music with
its hard hitting, psychedelic peppered sensibility and sometimes
controversial messages emerged as a musical revolution compared
with the often tame pop music of the early ‘60s.
Rock was the voice of youth – The Rolling Stones, The Animals,
The Who,The Yardbirds and The Beatles and many more led the way
in the burgeoning music of the mid ‘60s. Hippies, Psychedelia,
Eastern music and blues all inspired musicians such as Hendrix,
Cream, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin (to mention just a few ). |
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paved the way for the myriad of Rock styles we have today– from
Speed & Thrash Metal, Alternative/Indie Rock, Nu Metal and
Grunge to Jam Bands, Funk Metal, Madchester and Shoegazing! |
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ROCK
STYLE: Heavy drum backing varied guitar rhythm and bass with sometimes
distinctive , extended lead guitar instrumentals
ROCK
NAMES: The Yardbirds / The Animals / The Who / The Rolling
Stones / The Byrds / The Doors / Janis Joplin / Jimi Hendrix Experience
/Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead / The Beatles / Cream / Pink
Floyd / Led Zeppelin / AC/DC / Deep Purple / Guns’n’Roses
/ The Doors / The Move / Moody Blues / Yes / Genesis / Arrowsmith
/ Frank Zappa / T Rex / Suzi Quatro / Mott the Hoople / Queen /
Emerson,Lake and Palmer / Bowie / Motorhead / Iron Maiden / Black
Sabbath / Slayer / Def Leppard / Judus Priest / Ozzy Osbourne (see
picture) … To mention just a few !
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| Reggae |
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No
other music has established itself as the peoples' music. Born
in the poor communities of Jamaica, reggae is unique in being
able to unite its fans from politicians to the poor of downtown
Kingston. No other style has reflected the people who play
and listen to it so accurately, no other sound has been so
distinct and influential around the world.
With
a population of around just 2.5 million some 100,000 records
titles have been released in Jamaica over the past 40 years.
By 1960 dance promoters in Jamaica were hiring huge open air
spaces where they played R&B music to enthusiastic audiences.
These ‘sound system lawns’ were the places to listen
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The sound men running these shows continuously searched for new
and exclusive records to play and eventually started making and
producing their own. Producers such as Duke Reid, Prince Buster
and Coxsone were the first to record their own records and play
to ever increasing audiences. They and others quickly realised they
had a ready market for the most popular records.
The
rest as they say is history – Buster and Dodd came up with
Ska, Reid came up with deejay ‘toasting’ records where
the deejay talks in rhyme to the beat. This constant ‘experimenting’
with sound in the early days of reggae that has kept it in the forefront
of the world’s most exciting and culturally vibrant pop music.
REGGAE
TYPES: Ska / Roots / Rock Steady / Dub / Dancehall / UK reggae /
Reggae Pop / Ragga / Deejays
REGGAE
STYLE: Emphasises the off-beat, which affects the tempo and gives
the music its unusual feel, coupled with a strong bass, which makes
the music easy to dance to.
REGGAE
NAMES: Prince Buster / Duke Reid / Coxsone Dodd / King
Tubby / Big Youth / King Jammy / Jimmy Cliff / The Skatalities /
Desmond Dekker / Don Drummond / Rico Rodriguez / The Maytals / Slim
Smith / The Heptones / The Melodians / Phillis Dillon / The Mighty
Diamonds / Bob Marley (see picture) / Culture / Black Uhuru / Lee
Perry / Steel Pulse / Smiley Culture / Janet Kay / The Pioneers
/ Shaggy / Bobby Digital / Tenor Saw / Sly & Robbie / Junior
Reid / Norris Man/Sean Paul… to mention just a few !
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| Hip
Hop |
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Hip
Hop began in the ghetto of South Bronx and spread across New
York City and then the world. Almost more than any other type
of music Hip Hop has influenced art, film, dance, clothing
and speech for a new generation of music and party people.
Hip
Hop emerged from rap, taking beats, breaks – whatever
it wanted from the music scene at the time -and reworked the
sound into a DIY invention. The style of working remains the
same today with artists like Jay-Z and 50 Cent (see picture).
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DJs introduced the style
using rap as a key element with ‘street’ jargon giving
the music a rebel feel. In the late 1970s records like The Sugarhill
Gang’s ‘Rapper’s Delight´ introduced the
music to a wider audience. Creativity and imagination expressed
in music and reflected in visual expression on the streets gave
rise to physical expression through break-dancing.
Anybody
interested in the music could find a way of self-expression through
Hip Hop. The sound came from the streets with its own language,dress,attitude
and dance style. Hip Hop remains a way of life!
This ever-changing
‘music scene’ keeps on re-inventing itself, shifting
and extending the boundaries in an effort to stay well outside the
music mainstream and reflect the early beginnings of Hip Hop as
a customised community-based music and dance genre.
HIP HOP
TYPES: British / Old School / Political / Golden
Age / Political / Gangsta / Alternative
HIP HOP STYLE: A simple melodic
backing with an often complex bass and drum rhythm and featuring
the vocals which add the unique dimension to the overall sound.
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| Shoegazing |
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Shoegazing
! Ride, Lush, Influence, Create!
My
Bloody Valentine (see picture), still out there from ’85.
Started as a Goth band ended up as the defining Shoegazing
sound. Awesome guitar sounds and eerie weird vocals. Not too
great on the visual front if you’re into movement! Slow
rock on distorted guitars aired with heavenly melodic vocals,
played looking down at your shoes!
Layer
upon layer of sounds of more than one guitar, whipped into the
rhythm guitar, mixed with angelic vocals on top. A recipe for
shoegazing.
Listen
to: My Bloody Valentine, The Verve, Ride, Lush and even Blur.
Lal
Moore , Chesterfield
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Editor:
Shoegazing is a style of music that first appeared in the late 1980s
here in the UK. The defining exponent is said to be My Bloody Valentine
with their 'Isn’t Anything' released in 1988. The last album
by My Bloody Valentine, 'Loveless', released in 1991 is considered
the zenith of Shoegazing music. The
name Shoegazing was first used by the New Musical Express, describing
the tendency of the bands’ guitarists to constantly stare
at their feet while concentrating
on playing.
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