Music lecture Futurit: #Los Angeles
LA is full of opposites. On one side of the street there’s the shiny Hollywood Boulevard while the other supports the lively and creative hip hop and rock music scene. Everything is a bit more relaxed here than in New York.
Since the sixties the art and musical contra-culture and bands like Love (and also the Doors) and many big rock and metal bands of the eighties and nineties either came to life in the UK or right in LA. How many of them will you recognize during the Futurit event in A4?
And of course, hip-hop. LA is ethnically a very colorful city and therefore is a fruitful base for the genre of hip-hop and rap – whether the mainstream type or the skewed alternatives of it. In the nineties G-funk was the core of the scene while later alternative hop-hop and labels such as Anticon and Stones Throw took over. They both don’t want to be buried in the genre boxes and look for the new sound. In their catalogues you can find post rock or psychedelic rock.
The current boom of american hip-hop has a strong base in LA. Compton – the most hiphop town (after Prostejov, of course) is a short ride away. They not only have good rappers (Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator or Anderson. Paak) but also beatmakers. The local beat scene around the label Brainfeeder made many go crazy ten years ago. Flying Lotus and his companions mixed hip-hop, ambient and free jazz. This weird and adventurous music had listeners all around the world hooked – also in Slovakia. Ask for them at the label Gergaz! – or don’t we had already.
And one more phenomena might interest you is the Americans and their relationship towards electronic music and dance music – in their language EDM. From the best side of LA there’s the DJ Harvey whose music you will understand if you once experience “group sex on ecstasy”.
And if there’s time left we will talk about a few exceptional individuals that come from LA: Beck, Ariel Pink or the producer Greg Kurstin. Music lecture Futurit: #Los Angeles
LA is a city of opposites. On one side of the street there’s the shiny Hollywood Boulevard while the other supports the lively and creative hip hop and rock music scene. Everything is a bit more relaxed here than in New York.
Since the sixties the art and musical contra-culture and bands like Love (and also the Doors) and many big rock and metal bands of the eighties and nineties either came to life rather in the UK or right from the heart of LA. How many of them will did you recognize during the Futurit event in A4?
LA is ethnically a very colorful city and therefore is a fruitful base for the genre of hip-hop and rap, too. Whether it’s the mainstream type or the skewed alternatives of it. In the nineties G-funk was the core of the scene while later alternative hip-hop and labels such as Anticon and Stones Throw took over. They both don’t want to be buried in the genre boxes and constantly look for the new sound. In their catalogues you can find post rock or psychedelic rock.
The current boom of american hip-hop has a strong base in LA. Compton – the most hiphop town (after Prostejov, of course) is a short ride away. They not only have good rappers (Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator or Anderson. Paak) but also exceptional beatmakers. The local beat scene around the label Brainfeeder made many go crazy ten years ago. Flying Lotus and his companions mixed hip-hop, ambient and free jazz. This weird and adventurous music had listeners all around the world hooked – also in Slovakia. Ask for them at the label Gergaz!
One more phenomena that might interest you is the Americans’ relationship towards electronic music and dance music – in their language EDM. From the best side of LA there’s the DJ Harvey whose music you will understand if you once experienced “group sex on ecstasy”. We will also talk about a few exceptional individuals that come from LA: Beck, Ariel Pink or the producer Greg Kurstin.