drag. chop. screw. drag. chop. screw. drag. chop.
Our good friends owleyes and Disaro were mentioned in this article on pitchfork. Not for everyone but defenitely something interesting and new.
“The term “drag” is partly a reference to screwed and chopped hip-hop, the syrupy style cooked up by DJ Screw and others in 1990s Houston, and was first used by the band Salem to describe their music. Salem took screwed and chopped’s pacing— its heavy, hypnotic pull— and combined it with spooky synths and vocals to create an eerie, cavernous sound. This new batch of artists, which includes Balam Acab, White Ring, and Creep, are taking this idea in different directions. Houston hip-hop is still central, but they’re also toying with dub, goth, current electro, ambient house á la KLF’s Chill Out, and even chart pop…”
“All of these artists are relatively new, and few have even released an EP yet, so it’s difficult to say where this sound will go. The encouraging thing, though, is that even with acts working from a common aesthetic base, there isn’t much overlap. In most cases, they’re starting at the same point but headed down drastically different paths. “Everyone on the label is brand-new,” Carolan says of the Tri Angle acts. “They’ve only just started making their music in the last six months or so— and everyone is kind of figuring out their sound as they go along. Which is kind of nerve-wracking but exciting at the same time because you don’t know what you’re going to get.”
For the full article click below:
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7806-ghosts-in-the-machine/
