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pure shite - music to listen to whilst recovering from a penis amputation
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Downtempo / Ethnic House
C_J sans cheese, obs..
Melodic Techno.. WTF is that. Can we not just go back to house & techno
NasserAlazzawi which ethnicity?
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Hello chaps! Been a while. Hope you’re all well. Yeah, this is where all the interesting stuff is at the moment. I can’t stand most of the melodic house & techno tunes right now. All so generic and formulaic, doesn’t seem to be going forward at all. The organic/downtempo section however is where the party’s at. There’s plenty of amazing tunes without all the oriental instruments/vocals and even though the bpm is low it can be surprisingly intense.
alistair I’ve been giving this some thought and, whilst I think I kind of know where you’re coming from, I wondered exactly what you meant?
Unbroken1 I remember not so long ago when the Organic House label came out - I too saw bits and bobs but wasn’t keen to look back on it until I discovered M.O.S. / MODD tracks and realised Beatport was giving some of their music that label or Melodic House.
Personally, as a DJ, I find the subcategories quite useful and welcome - in the 90s/2000s there just wasn’t this sheer volume of music to sift through and it makes what might be “1 million+” house records that bit easier to find and (whilst I don’t look at them, plenty of people find them useful) chart and talk about and create hype in niches.
Ethnic House to me just means music that contains sounds which a culture or ethnicity is known for and proud of, which the world doesn’t normally get to hear.
My guess is that much of what I’m hearing in the ethnic house category is from Persian, Indian and Oriental descent and being a British born half Iraqi I’ve no qualms with it being more broadly generalised into Ethnic House for the purpose of an easier search experience just like Progressive House doesn’t cover all the sub types we think we know.
I once referred to ethnic house in regards to Dixon, as hipster or something, and Damo bit my head off for it. lol.
He said Damo and not Dermo Millsy.
Unless Damo worked at Eastern Bloc too in which case I’ll call myself a taxi.
NasserAlazzawi …fair enough, and I understand why these categorisations come about, but inevitably these new genres become self-perpetuating; people end up making music to fit into an ‘organic house’ (or whatever) category, and they become flooded with piss-weak, pastiche , library music versions of the artists that innovated that style in the first place. So arguably, finding music by someone else’s conception of a genre, becomes actually harder, not easier.
IMO far better to follow the artists/labels that you like, maybe then explore the artists/labels that influenced them and so on… listen to sets/charts of DJ’s/tastemakers you respect, seek out unfamiliar artists and check out other stuff they’ve done. I don’t exclusively get music from Beatport by any means, but if I do, ‘My Beatport’ is the only filter I’ll use.
The most interesting DJ sets for me (even within the narrow confines of ‘club’ music) are the ones that straddle styles… I’ve played some of the artists you mention, but always end up going back to stuff like Fred Everything, AtJazz, Charles Webster, Shur-I-Kan etc. If you can mix it up a bit and try to make your own sets harder to categorise, there’s much more longevity to that IMO.
Can we talk about Afro house now please? 
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Wow, Ethnic House, why not just say ‘MUSIC FROM NIGGY-NOGGY LAND’?
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Todh Teri (Pawas from Daso & Pawas fame) is pretty cool. His India Gets Physical compilation is subtly ethnic and has some great tunes.
You’re my favourite ethnic, Rhousedawg x
lol!