The Next Big Thing?

Whatever it is, the inspiration will be black and the execution (and profit) will be white.

Dunno Bhoyo...The Darkness are the most unlikely kind of band to come to the forefront recently. Maybe we will get a rush of 70's derivative bands, the type, lets face it, that were unfashionable in their time. Maybe this will be their time. Todd Rundgren anyone?

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Originally posted by David Slater:
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Norwegien Viola Grindcore ?

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Hey - I actually like the idea of that - that could be pretty cool - kind of Burzum meets Elgar or something - cool!!!!

When the music's over turn out the lights

Well, it won't be avant bleep hop, in that APC, the archetypal crew, have disbanded already. IMO, 'underground hip hop' will blow up on the release of the Non-Prophets album on Lex, or Sage Francis' sophomore release on Epitaph next year. Atmosphere have been picked up on Epitaph too, and Buck 65 is signed to Warner, and the legions of Eminem fans provide a ready market.

cLOUDEAD2 (post-rock hop?) won't be massive when it come out on Big Dada, but it should be.

David,

The next big thing locally will be garage now they have their very own crossover superstar in the 17 old stabbing victim Dizee Rascal. Naturally if you hadn't pre-ordered his album on the strength of "I LUV U" and recieved it before his Mercury Nomination you are complete out of touch. Its sort of half-garage and half-hiphop and is really rather excellent. I had some Avant Garde/Jazz Snobs round my place recently and even they liked it.

In wider muso circles this year's Electroclash (ie a genre so obscure its over and into the shitty forumulaic copy stage before other than webzine writers have even heard the term) is Dancepunk. I can highly recommend the Let's Get Serious EP by the Panthers as an introduction (although to be honest I'd be hard pressed to think of another example of Dancepunk of the top of my head and its probably 'like so totally over now' anyway).

Neither of those are likely to be a "next big thing" though.

Matthew

PS Apparently The Liars, Rupture and !!! are the Dancepunk vanguard. I ilke the Liars, have never quite got around to the Rupture and am sure I ordered !!!'s "Me & Guiliani donw at teh choolyard" but I don;t have it so I should probablt check otu where it is.

Mekon said "cLOUDEAD2 (post-rock hop?)"

I prefer prog-rap

Everybody I play it (the first one that is) to hates it -- from my hip-hop obsessed nephew's to all my music obsessed mates.

Fools!

Matthew

Have you picked up how universally hated Dizzee is by hip hop heads?

As for cLOUDDEAD, did you sleep on Born Of Man and Flies by Mummy Fortuna's Theatre Company? If you like anticon's weirder side, you should definitely be checking out Mechanical Insects.

Matthew,

Being still in sighting distance of the back of the leading edge, I am into The Rapture, !!! and the Liars.

My new predictions for the next big thing after the next big thing is either :

"Drill'n'Ragga" like DJ Rupture, The Bug, Rootsman

or

"Motorik Rock" like Ambulance, Radio 9, Do sya make Think, Set fire to flames

DS

ITC - T. Raumschaumeire - Monstertruck Driver

Obviously the next big thing is the Drive-By Truckers. We already see sk8ers, BMXers, and surfers wearing mesh caps and shirts with pearl snaps. They're sure to take hold of DBT.

A more likely scenario... whatever the Village Voice portrays as the next big thing, self-proclaimed artsy types insecure about their actual tastes will follow en masse.

9Lazy9 - Sweet Jones

A classic little beats, jazzy, blade runner type, sort of loungee/chill out stuff, unusual, but great!
It's available on LP as well!

http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/7180.html

Matthew,

garage might be 'the next big thing' in your neck of the woods, but here at the other end of the Holloway Road we've been listening to it for the last three years...whether we like it or not.

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

David said "I am into The Rapture, !!! and the Liars"

Have you heard the OUt Hud Album? Sort of art-funk/disco made by members of !!! I can't understand why more don't like it.

Mekon said "Have you picked up how universally hated Dizzee is by hip hop heads?"

Doesn;t surprise me -- like all music fan ghettos if he's not one of thier own they tend ot slag them off.

djc said "garage might be 'the next big thing' in your neck of the woods, but here at the other end of the Holloway Road we've been listening to it for the last three years...whether we like it or not."

I know what you mean. I was thinking more of a UK Garage act known for something other than comedy firearms incidents in crap nightclubs

Matthew