RainyDave
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Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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 Posted: Thu Feb 03 2005 16:38
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Hi
For those of you interested in chip music, someone is trying to start an 808-and-unfiltered-square-wave-based (!) genre of dance music called Skew. There's a Manifesto and Tune Specifications, along with an example tune, at this site:
http://www.ascholarandaphysician.com/news.shtml
I've heard two Skew tunes so far, and neither is half as good as the chiptunes I've heard from people here - if anyone on the board is making Skew I'd like to hear it!
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Martin
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Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Feb 07 2005 14:29
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cool thing  I wondered why the genre should be called "Skew" until I read that it was the guys name.  |
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Walter Vos
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Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Feb 07 2005 14:51
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His nickname could also have been narcissus |
what is hip?
www.waltervos.nl |
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Crash
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Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Feb 07 2005 15:12
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Now I'm generally open to all kinds of music, if it's music.
But that sounds like noise to me, I can't help it  . My 2 1/2 year old son plays better tunes on my midi-keyboard, and he just pats on it without particular manifesto or 5 rules that have to be followed.
Sorry, just my 0.02 €. |
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QBical
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Location: Utrecht , The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Feb 07 2005 18:53
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skew?
this is just the latest hype in the london underground...
'Grime'
Grtz
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RainyDave
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Mon Feb 07 2005 18:57
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| Walter Vos wrote: |
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His nickname could also have been narcissus
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It's all quite pretentious, really...
The website says 'Skew is to music what "Dogme 95" is to film.'
From what I've heard, I think they'll need some talent before they can even consider justifying that comparison!!
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My 2 1/2 year old son plays better tunes on my midi-keyboard
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Anyone up for a keyboard-bashing then? We could send the results over to Mr. Skew (I really hope that's not his real name!)
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aRGee
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Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Feb 08 2005 21:00
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SKEW RULES:
1. The time signature must be 3/4.
2. Tempo must be about 140 bpm.
3. Drums must come from a Roland TR808.
4. All other sounds must be square wave based and
preferably unfiltered.
5. The track should be mixable (i.e. some blank
drums at the start and end)
Sounds like a pretty limited ´style´. I shouldn´t think of listening a whole album of these annoying beeps and standard drum-sounds. I think you should take this with a ´korreltje zout´, in other words: not to serious. |
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aRGee
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Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Feb 08 2005 21:05
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| QBical wrote: |
skew?
this is just the latest hype in the london underground...
'Grime'
Grtz
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I´ve heard of this style as well on another forum (clubcharts), but still haven´t heard a good example of what it really is. Is it something serious, or just a stupid term someone came up with, just because it sounds slighty different than already existing musicstyles? |
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QBical
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Location: Utrecht , The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Feb 09 2005 18:07
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well as I said it's pretty hip in london, but I don't realy like it. Just simple 808 beats and measure changes just like this skew thing. The only difference is that grime uses a more dirty selection of sounds behind the beats, where skew uses basic waveforms with different melody's.
The whole grime music is getting a lot of attention lately on the 3voor12 BPM internet radio station.
You can check www.3voor12.nl for the feeds (dutch), can't directlink it because it's a flash site.
Have fun!
Grtz
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