Compare & Contrast - House/Liquid DNB.
House music and Drum & Bass music are two very different sounding genres, but also have a few similarities in terms of the production focus on drums and bass lines. Both genres are a type of electronic dance music, therefore will share a couple of similarities as well as having their very own unique styles and sounds.
The two reference tracks that I will be using as the basis of the analysis in this essay is a house track called “Notorious” By Malaa, and a liquid DNB track “Lost (Pola & Bryson remix) by Hybrid Minds.
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It is usually what gives a song its character and tonality. The harmony in “Lost” is heard as the minor chords of C are played throughout. When compared to “Notorious”, the harmony in this song is relatively simple, as a single soft synth is heard in majority of the track in a major mode and a couple of single note synth hits are played together to create the harmony of Malaa’s track. When thinking about a song’s timbre, we are looking for the elements which differentiate each sound to the other in terms of colour, sound quality and tone. For example how a punchy snare sounds compared to a soft and slow synth pad. In house music, and in “Notorious” in particular, the main elements of the song such as the bass, punchy kick/snare and the vocal, all have a very specific timbre. In majority of house music, the bassline is usually played on single hits, at a low pitch, that create a melody. The bass sounds almost gritty. When comparing it to the timbre of a liquid DNB track, there is a very noticeable difference, as the bass is a lot calmer and quieter, and is not the main element of the
"Certain songs might tell you a little something about my upbringing. Certain songs might tell you how I relate to others life experiences. On the album I never get specific on all my dirt because I don't feel I need to talk about that. I want to put the spotlight on Mobile, and give the listeners an idea of what's going on here from a young black mans perspective." Listen up!
In a reputable rap album an artist must tell a real-life story. The following three artist come from different but similar backgrounds. One artist from Detroit, one from Compton, another from Brooklyn. Sada Baby along with other Detroit rappers share their experiences living in different parts of the city. Throughout D.O.N. by Sada Baby, he references a lot of weapon use, gang activity, and drug use in his neighborhood. The songs on this album go into so much detail about these things, because this was the life he was born into. This is what he knows first hand. In Sada Baby’s song, ‘Guatemalan’, he goes through the steps of his daily life and even goes on to justify why he is the way that he is based off his experiences.
New Orleans has coined the bounce sound. Houston originated chopped and screwed, slowing down the bpms (beats per minute) to half time and cutting and looping a song. Atlanta is very diverse, as they have sampled from all of the other centers, but can closely associated with the up-tempo heavy-bass Miami sound (Speyer, 2003). Memphis, on the other hand, is known for a "Halloween kind of sound, real scary and creepy" and 'slowly but surely' areas like Jackson, Mississippi, and Charlotte, North Carolina are developing their own scenes (Speyer, 2003).
of drums, bass, piano, and guitar). There are two distinct differences between these genres in that
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Given the focus of the magazine, one can expect Complex to be a credible source for this hip-hop-related essay. The article is a secondary source, citing video interviews done by surviving group members, as well as interviews from the time around the album’s release. Because of Complex’s status as a culture-oriented magazine, rather than a news source, this source probably has the lowest credibility of the sources used. That is not to say that this is a non-credible source, however, since the writers can be expected to be very familiar with the subject. Harrington, Richard.
But these two genres are alike and different in many ways. A few similarities are the bass and the artists. Hip-hop and country both can have lots of bass. I like how bass makes the song sound more alive. Also, they share artists. Artists such as Taylor Swift and Florida Georgia Line sing both genres. But they also have differences. They both vary in the meanings of the songs. While hip-hop focuses on the more crazy lifestyle, country is more about normal things that occur in life. There is also a huge difference on tempo. Hip-hop is fast while country usually leans to the more slow side.
In conclusion, these theorists who explore hip hop all have generalized ideas of what hip hop represents. Johnson is more oriented towards the female side of hip hop, whereas Jeffries is focused on the unity side of what it offers and Smitherman thinks that it is a black CNN. Although each scholar focuses on different aspects of hip hop, it is evident to point out that all these aspects correlate with one another. Hip hop is a cultural tool formed out of a need to take a stance on the issues that relate to the black community. And that it’s a voice to relate and unite people who share the same struggles on which to advocate change.
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Hip-hop is one of the major music genres of today like the blues were in the 1950's. Stanley Crouch views hip-hop as being vulgar and obscene while he sees the blues as being one of the classic music genres. In actuality, these two genres are similar in many ways.
I will also consult sources that are in support and against the issue as well as compare mainly modern hip-hop songs to analyze how the war on drugs affected the song’s lyrics, style, and audience. In addition to these resources, the research will also take other issues into account, such as incarceration and the creation of a permanent underclass known as the “casualties of war” consisting of “all poor or lower-income people” (Blumenson and Nilson). As a result, the research will provide a point of view on the effects of the war on drugs on hip-hop and the minority community, and what was the aftermath of the long
Early producers in the electro genre later featured prominently in the Latin Freestyle movement, along with Lotti Golden and Richard Scher fusing electro, funk, and hip hop with elements of Latin music. Detroit techno DJ Eddie Fowlkes shaped a style called electro-soul, which was characterized by a predominant bass line and a chopped up electro breakbeat contrasted with soulful male vocals. 151 Rock samples replaced synthesizers that had figured so prominently in electro, and rap styles and techniques evolved in tandem, anchoring rap to the changing hip hop culture. Although the early 1980s were electro's heyday in the mainstream, it enjoyed renewed popularity in the late 1990s with artists such as Anthony Rother and DJs such as Dave Clarke, and has made yet another comeback for a third wave of popularity in 2007. The continued interest in electro, though influenced to a great degree by Florida, Detroit, Miami, Los Angeles and New York styles, has primarily taken hold in Florida and Europe with electro club nights becoming commonplace
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...lf within the songs infrastructure. In contrast, one of the main distinctions between the two was that modern day rappers utilize more elaborate patterns; whereas the old rappers would just stick fairly simple patterns. By far the most noticeable deviation from the two would be the sudden variations in the lyrics.