Word: low-end
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...Delay, simply making music that resembles house isn’t enough. Here he does away with the sublteties of Vocalcity altogether, bringing every single element into the foreground. The vocalists hover in front of the speakers; the textures glisten with superhuman perfection; the percussion bangs harder and the low-end feels like being hugged tightly. Listening to The Present Lover is an hour-long rush up the spine, with eyes wide open...
...going to be in a low-end community,” Montijo said. “I’ll be on the south side where all the Mexicans are, we live more where the better neighborhoods, better schools are. Tucson’s very segregated like that...
Bass, in itself, isn’t base. I think the low-end in music after rock has been stigmatized not just because it’s loud, but because it’s become disembodied. There’s no bass player, no one there to praise or blame but the bass itself. Yet the bass is ever more important; it’s a force of its own that literally forces attention to itself. There’s always been low-end in music, but at this point it demands proper representation. So does everything else for that...
...perfect to really love. Thus I’m feeling Southern crunk over anything else remotely popular in rap music, and grime (its closest U.K. equivalent) even more—there’s that apathy towards the world at large and a palpable dirt in the snares and low-end. Dizzee Rascal’s Boy In Da Corner, grime’s flagship full-length, wouldn’t have worked without its mediocre sound quality: it’s real rather than idealistic. These sounds aren’t formulated to please you; they force...
...Milkshake” quadruples the effect, with Kelis confined to the role of a club diva providing the vocal riffs and the real star being the skanking analog low-end. It’s the closest I’ve heard mainstream hip-hop get to house music, where minimal “jack tracks” work more like DJ tools than as complete pieces of music, and the human presence is fully mechanized in between pulses of the drum machine. Appropriately, Kelis sounds so bored in “Milkshake” she’s practically disembodied...