my first introduction to “glich” was more of the noisey things are messing up in your cd player type stuff. I never associated this with any scene (idm, beaindance, breakcore) because, noise. As i delved into warped records, as well as a few other labels i started hearing glitch that was using in a more constructive beat driven way. This was long before brostep made heavy use of glitch/robo sex.
also, no one has mentioned BT whose been doing the glitchy dance music thing for a while now. This binanry universe is a wonderful piece of work.
The first artist that comes to my mind from the word ”glitch” is the former atom heart (atom nowadays?). Some of his stuff used alot of this ”broken-cd” stutter thing.
robosex? wth is that? Is that like a real thing? Or is that a sort of desciption like ”face melting”
Robo sex is the super glitchy wub wub stuff in which it sounds like transformers are copulating. Not really the term for it but the term tends to get thrown around in my creative group.
uh ok, I think Ive read that phrase from some blog or something… I do find it abit troubling that someone would have erotic connotations about those type of sounds though
I’m not saying it’s not fair game - he may well like Traxman and it may be a good recommendation. All I was saying was that if someone asked me what some good glitch records were, I wouldn’t in a million years recommend some footwork and think that fitted the bill. No comment on the merits of RP Boo, Traxman, DJ Rashad… whoever.
I hear people say genre names are dumb, but can’t really see much of a way of navigating through the vast swathes of music that exist without some classification. But I don’t pretend to be open-minded in that respect. I want to know if the music someone is recommending to me involves the strumming of an acoustic guitar so that I can avoid it.
Also, such a minute proportion of music doesn’t align itself with some genre. It’s usually in the heads of those making it that it doesn’t.
I guess I read the OP as “glitchy” rather than “Glitch”. My bad. I describe old chopped and screwed record as sounding glitchy so I’m probably just using the term in a poor manner.
I know what you mean. I think the term ”EDM” was also coined because the yoof back then didnt want anyone to think that they were digging the same ”techno/dance” as their parents lol. Thank god that’s over now and we can all get back to listening old metroplex records and afx
Genre classifications are interesting IMO. There are also political/cultural definitions in addition to ”music parametrical” ones within… But indeed, going too far into microgenres is asking for trouble as opinions differ
