Satellite Party Music Poll

[nexis]

Poll
Various types of electronic styles and descriptions:

Acid jazz (also known as club jazz) is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony.[1]. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music. .While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with Jazz music. The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers".

World Fusion music is a fusion genre of world music, blending musical traditions from around the world, and possibly mixing them with modern music such as jazz or rock. The term was coined in 1978 and has since become a standard term used in the music industry. Ranging from African, Indian, Polynesian, Balinese, Latin Tribal polyrhythmic drum styles with exotic sampled instrumentation. World fusion features rich, textured instruments from all over the globe: sitars, flutes, tablas, bongos, taiko, congas, shakers, Balinese Rejong Gamelan (the list goes on an on and on) mixed with thick bass lines, beautiful ethnic melodies and psychedelic synths/efx to create globally rich atmospheres of feeling, depth and dance.

Downtempo: Downtempo (sometimes DownTempo, down tempo or downbeat) is an umbrella term for a laid-back electronic music style slower than house music (less than 118 beats per minute) but separate from ambient music. This can encompass specific genres such as lounge music, chill out, trip-hop, or acid jazz. It is usually intended more for relaxing and socializing than dancing, though some releases are produced for the dance floor. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling. Sometimes the beats are more complicated and more featured instead of being in the background, but even then they are usually less intense than other kinds of electronic music like Trance The downtempo genre draws heavily on dub, hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, drum 'n' bass, ambient music, and pop and is often confused and/or mated with closely-related styles like IDM, trip hop, and acid jazz. Thievery Corporation, Royksopp, Kruder & Dorfmeister and Zero 7 are among the most popular and well-known artists who tend to specialize in producing Downtempo electronic music.

Reggae and Dub Reggae usually has accents on the 3rd beat in each bar, there being four beats in a bar; many people think it's accentuated on the 2nd and 4th, because of the rhythm guitar. Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. The bass line is often a simple two-bar riff that is centred around its thickest and heaviest note (which in musical terms is often the harmonic root note) - the other notes in the bassline often serve simply to lead you towards the bassist note. An example of this can be heard on "Sun Is Shining" by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

House music is uptempo music for dancing and has a tempo range of between 118 and 135 bpm. Producers use many different sound sources for bass sounds in house music, from continuous, repeating electronically-generated lines sequenced on a synthesizer such as a Roland TB-303 to studio recordings or samples of live electric bassists, or simply filtered-down samples from whole stereo recordings (from classic funk tracks or any other song). Electronically-generated sounds and samples of recordings from genres such as jazz, blues and synth pop are often added to the foundation of the drum beat and synth bass line. House songs may also include disco or soul-style and gospel vocals and additional percussion. Techno and trance, which developed alongside house music, share this basic beat infrastructure, but they usually eschew house's live-music-influenced feel and Black or Latin music influences in favor of more synthetic sound sources and approach

[Jasper]

You left out a "none of the above" option, and didn't include anything like punk or psychedelia. Like I said before, I'd like to hear some mildly psychedelic music done with lots of textural elements, but put together in a more folky, organic manner, including things like bongos and acoustic guitars, snaky single-line electric guitars, and some interesting non-rock instruments like flutes and what have you. Mix this up with a little funkiness, a little punkiness, a little jazziness, and plenty of polyrhythmic traditional tropical world music influences (like "Of Course" and some of those P4P rhythms) and some nice electronic dub touches. Trash the glossy slickness and get some funky, organic, creative production going. Get more intimate, more crafty, break it all down and build it back up without a single fucking care for any of the well-meaning opinions of others, or any consideration of current trends or market research. A great visionary who is in the zone can make more amazing music chanting and hitting two sticks together than a roomful of trained musicians in a slick studio setting. Let it be from the soul, and the rest will take care of itself.

I voted reggae and dub because that gives us the psychedelic, the world, the tropical, the textural, and the electronic. Anyone who listens to The Congos "Heart of the Congos" and King Tubby's "Freedom Sounds In Dub," will have some idea what I'm saying.

[nestos]

You left out a "none of the above" option, and didn't include anything like punk or psychedelia. Like I said before, I'd like to hear some mildly psychedelic music done with lots of textural elements, but put together in a more folky, organic manner, including things like bongos and acoustic guitars, snaky single-line electric guitars, and some interesting non-rock instruments like flutes and what have you. Mix this up with a little funkiness, a little punkiness, a little jazziness, and plenty of polyrhythmic traditional tropical world music influences (like "Of Course" and some of those P4P rhythms) and some nice electronic dub touches. Trash the glossy slickness and get some funky, organic, creative production going. Get more intimate, more crafty, break it all down and build it back up without a single fucking care for any of the well-meaning opinions of others, or any consideration of current trends or market research. A great visionary who is in the zone can make more amazing music chanting and hitting two sticks together than a roomful of trained musicians in a slick studio setting. Let it be from the soul, and the rest will take care of itself.

I voted reggae and dub because that gives us the psychedelic, the world, the tropical, the textural, and the electronic. Anyone who listens to The Congos "Heart of the Congos" and King Tubby's "Freedom Sounds In Dub," will have some idea what I'm saying.

Congo-Congo Congo-Congo Maaaaaan

And I guess Perry loves that music too as he sometimes includes some reggae stuff in his music (ie king Z, To Me and more recently insanity when played live)

[hydro]

wow decisions decisions
i played it safe and voted a lil of each.I think thats what perrys best at taking all kinds of sounds and making it his own.I keep thinking though,Carl has alot of hip hop background do you think were gonna hear Perry getting his groove on that way?how about some hard-core hip-hop mixed with a lil bit-a rock"n"roll? lol
then id like to hear perry do a solo of all newave sounding shit straight outta the 80's cross between psi-com, milky ave and nightbloom.lalalalaa

[StickyFingers]

I voted reggae and dub because that gives us the psychedelic, the world, the tropical, the textural, and the electronic. Anyone who listens to The Congos "Heart of the Congos" and King Tubby's "Freedom Sounds In Dub," will have some idea what I'm saying.

Perry screaming with echo reverb and voice effects, and Bill Laswell as a producer

[nexis]

You left out a "none of the above" option, and didn't include anything like punk or psychedelia. Like I said before, I'd like to hear some mildly psychedelic music done with lots of textural elements, but put together in a more folky, organic manner, including things like bongos and acoustic guitars, snaky single-line electric guitars, and some interesting non-rock instruments like flutes and what have you. Mix this up with a little funkiness, a little punkiness, a little jazziness, and plenty of polyrhythmic traditional tropical world music influences (like "Of Course" and some of those P4P rhythms) and some nice electronic dub touches. Trash the glossy slickness and get some funky, organic, creative production going. Get more intimate, more crafty, break it all down and build it back up without a single fucking care for any of the well-meaning opinions of others, or any consideration of current trends or market research. A great visionary who is in the zone can make more amazing music chanting and hitting two sticks together than a roomful of trained musicians in a slick studio setting. Let it be from the soul, and the rest will take care of itself.

I voted reggae and dub because that gives us the psychedelic, the world, the tropical, the textural, and the electronic. Anyone who listens to The Congos "Heart of the Congos" and King Tubby's "Freedom Sounds In Dub," will have some idea what I'm saying.

I agree with you. The Reggae and World Styles are closest to what you describe. Satellite Party could invent & have a classification all to their own. Maybe call it something like "deep psychedelic island dub" or "tropical world funky dance tryp"

[Shroomy]

Nuno and the Hybrid guys are safely out of the picture now.
They didn't add anything mindblowing. They steered the music in the wrong way I think.
It wouldn't hurt if Pete contributed either.

Oh..... and that stuff about being "worshiped by the ancients and inheriting the spirit of the sun"....... I like! ! !
Thats something Jim Morrison would've penned.
Keep channeling the spirit of Jim Morrison, thats the shit yo.

[nexis]

[ Congo-Congo Congo-Congo Maaaaaan

And I guess Perry loves that music too as he sometimes includes some reggae stuff in his music (ie king Z, To Me and more recently insanity when played live)

I didn't know they did a ragga version of Insanity Rains live. Do you happen to remember the date and venue for that?

[Mike]

[ Congo-Congo Congo-Congo Maaaaaan

And I guess Perry loves that music too as he sometimes includes some reggae stuff in his music (ie king Z, To Me and more recently insanity when played live)

I didn't know they did a ragga version of Insanity Rains live. Do you happen to remember the date and venue for that?

I know 5/27/07 they did it.
There are more dates as well.
All while Nuno was still with the band.


I haven't made my pick yet but I'm thinking it over.
It's hard to choose though.
I really like Perry's voice a lot and for me all the different styles he's sang over the years have fit his voice well.

Decisions. Decisions.

[nexis]

Thanks. I found the date you mentioned but it sounds pretty much like the album version to me. This clip isn't the whole song though. Maybe they break into a Reggae section later on into the song?
Venice Flashmob
Epoxybox
5/27/2007
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ky9dmaFtdBY