Durante la decada del 90 el hip hop se fusionó con generos denominados "serios" como la musica electronica concreta, el ambient y el jazz.
Algunos denominaron a esa mezcla "abstract hip hop" o "trip hop".Hubo grandiosos discos de trip hop pero, como suele pasar, el genero se agoto en poco tiempo y se convirtio en el refugio de oportunistas compilados, y jazzmen con poco talento que veian que incorporando un beat de A Tribe Called Quest sobre sus insipidos jams lograban llamar la atención.
Pero todo vuelve, y el excitante primer disco de Architeq me recuerda que aun es posible mezclar de un modo original la crudeza de ritmos callejeros como el hip hop, y el electro con Stockhausen, Vangelis y Neu!.
El disco en cuestion se llama "Green + Gold" y salio por el prestigioso sello Tirk.
Aqui les dejo 2 de sus temas:
Architeq - Sleeping Bear Lament
During the nineties hip hop started to combine with other, so called "serious", genres such as concrete music, ambient and jazz.
Some named this mix "abstract hip hoop" or "trip hop"
There were some awesome trip hop records but after a short period of time the genre started to repeat itself and became a niche for not-so-great compilations and jazzmen with no talent that figured out that the simple fact of adding an A Tribe Called Quest to a mediocre jam can have press attention and eventually make money.
There were some awesome trip hop records but after a short period of time the genre started to repeat itself and became a niche for not-so-great compilations and jazzmen with no talent that figured out that the simple fact of adding an A Tribe Called Quest to a mediocre jam can have press attention and eventually make money.
But all is cyclic, and the exciting debut album from Architeq reminds me that is still possible to mix street genres such as hip hop and electro with Stockhausen, Vangelis or Neu!
The record is called "Green + Gold" and is available on the prestigous Tirk label.
