Hip-hop. Hip-POP (as Sarah Jones said in Your Revolution with DJ Vadim, which was banned in the USA). Trip-hop. How many "hops" do we need? Friends recently suggested one more category for all the popular r-n-b crud and bad rap: shit-hop.
Welcome at least one more hop: glitch hop. I've heard it called "click hop", and "blip hop", but glitch-hop seems to be the consensus. It's what you get when you cross full glitch electro (like Oval, or Matmos, who you may have heard all over Bjork's Vespertine and not known) with DSP wankery (like Kevin Blechdom or dsico) and good old-fashioned hip hop sensibilities.
And it's the perfect word to describe Prefuse 73. They're on the Warp label (Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, etc) so they have to be cool - and on the upside, you can buy their tracks online as plain old mp3s.
For some reason I thought they were Australian, but they're not. Don't let that dampen your curiosity: listen to Point to B (Prefuse 73) (mp3) from the Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, their 2001 release. It's a good example of what glitch hop has to offer.
Posted by Casey at February 7, 2004 08:57 AMGLTICH HOP IS A NEW WAY OF DOING THINGS. FOR ME IT IS A VERY REFRESHING ANICDOTE FOR ALL THE GARBAGE THAT IS MAINSTREAM HIP POP...
Posted by: PHANTASTIK at February 9, 2004 10:04 PMprefuse 73 is one person!!!! savath and savalas is two.
Posted by: argyle747 at August 4, 2004 04:58 PM