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Hey all you rock dogs out there,
get that old AC/DC album out of
your tape deck and start dancing.
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houae music they play in all the clubs,
and I'm not talking about disco.
Fm talking about a, new wave of
electronic dance music, and if you
want to be on the cutting edge of this
new scene, you need to check out
the Wednesday Night Shag on
WUSC-FM 90.5.
The show, which airs Wednesdays
from 10 p.m. to midnight, features
a variety of styles of dance music.
The show's two hosts, the Illbient
Kid and DJ Skippy, focus on
underground dance music that has
not been accessible for American
listeners.
"Our show is a homogeneous
cornucopia of drum'n'bass, jungle,
trip hop, illbient and dub," the Illbient
Kid said.
Contused?
Don't worry, it should become
clear as you read on.
"We focus on anything that has
good beats and an interesting style,"
he explained. "Basically, you can
swing your butt left and right to
what we're playing."
But the show features more than
music to dance to. It focuses on
cutting-edge styles of dance music
that, despite their popularity in other
countries, have not been appreciated
in America.
The American dance music scene
created many styles of dance like
breakbeat and hip hop, but it really
embraced house music," the Illbient
Kid said "And so our show is basically
bringing a progressive, alternative
flava' to a more traditional house
dance scene."
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DJ Skippy added that while house
has been the most successful dance
scene in America, it is not very diverse
compared to the house scenes ir
other countries like England.
"My personal opinion," she said
"Is that very few Americans, oi
Americans in the South, have beer
exposed to a variety of house music
But that's not the case in England
The difference is that the FngHsV
culture is based on club life. Whatever
type of music, it's all remixed to be
played in a club, whereas Americar
culture is based on rock'n'roll anc
beer."
And the Wednesday Night Sha^
tries to rise above this American cull
of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
To do this, they play cutting-edge
music by artists like DJ Food, Funk)
Porcini, Goldie, Howie B., Meat Beal
Manifesto, Alex Reece and manj
others.
Never heard of these artists? Don'1
worry, most people haven't.
And the styles of music they plaj
are also relatively unknown ir
America.
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at your favorite dance club and they
followed up you're favorite house
remix of Barry Manilow's "Oh,
Mandy" with some trip hop? How
about drum'n'bass, dub, illbient or
jungle?
Well, if your answer is 'no' it's
1 not a surprise. However, these styles
of music are slowly catching on in
America the way they have in other
countries, and it may not be long
1 before all the kids down in Five
Points are dancing to a whole new
groove.
So, lefs start from the beginning.
Drum'n'bass started in the mid80s
and developed into two branches.
J The slower of the two evolved some
but is still called drum'n'bass, and
it features slower, groove-like beats
? and ambient overtones. This style
^ of music has exploded in England
to the point where it has overcome
house music.
Around 1991, artists like Goldie
and L.T.J. Bukem started adding
7 fester, random beats to drum'n'bass
at a club called Speed. As this sound
developed into if s own genre it was
called jungle because of the wild,
uncontrolled qualities it possessed.
Electronic dub,on the other hand,
developed in an effort to fill space
on records. Dub is a style of reggae
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music that was incorporated into
the music to make B-sides that would
give an even amount of space on both
sides of a record, and these mixes
became so popular that electronic
dub developed into its own genre.
And then there is trip hop.
This genre is by far the most
confusing because it seems like
everyone has a different opinion
about what trip hop is. And on top
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The Illbient Kid said that he
considers trip hop to be rooted in hip
hop and urban culture.
"Trip hop is hip hop music with
no rapping and lots of experimenting
done to it," he said. The genre started
with people playing b-sides to rap
music.
There's an urban vibe to all music
of this type," he said. "People back
on the farm just don't get into it.
There is a sense of claustrophobia
and desperation that's so apparent
in metropolitan life today."
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Dlbient dance is an experimental
spin-off of trip hop. The term was
coined by one of the genre's premiere
artists, DJ Spooky, and the music
infuses all types of dance but rounds
them out with a chilled out effect.
While terms like illbient and trip
hop may put off some listeners, this
new electronic dance music has
already started catching on and its
presence can be seen in much of
today's popular music.
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USC-FM 90.5 electronic music
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and radio. And
you have artists that are becoming
mainstream like Tricky, Prodigy
and Future Sounds of London."
College radio has already
embraced electronic music to a
certain extent Artists like DJ Krush,
DJ Shadow, Nightmares on Wax,
the Orbital and Underworld all
experienced success on college radio
reporting charts, and compilations
like "Logical Progression" and the
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well received.
DJ Skippy said this college radio
support for electronic music through
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[Decaying is] not as easy
as people think. It is as
difficult, but different, as
playing the guitar.
Dlbient Kid
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Show on WUSGFM 90.5
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shows like the
Wednesday Night
Shag is probably
just the beginning.
"Look at the 'rave
kids,'" she said.
They're the next to
be in college. A lot
AHG people are going to
be interested in
deejaying. And that
means more than
just playing music.
That's mixing and
experimenting,
because it is an art
form.
"It's not as easy
as people think. It
is as difficult, but
different, as playing
the guitar. And to
shut out electronic
music because you
I like rock'n'roll is
I kinda close-minded"
And what it all boils down to is
very simple. Beyond terms like
drum'n'bass and jungle, the
experimentation and meaning of
the music takes it to another level.
This is music to dance to, but it can
also be more than that.
"Ifs like groove music," DJ Skippy
said If s gotta good bpm (beats per
minute), and you can dance to it.
But it's not limited to that. This is
that can provide a backdrop.
"You can listen to it while you
drive your car or while your walking
down the street. This is music you
can dance to or listen to while you're
doing homework."
So if you've got homework to do,
or you just want to shake your butt
from left to right, check out the
alternative dance music on the
Wednesday Night Shag on WUSC.
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