A kung fu fighter in a disco

Indie is definitely moving in the right direction and this should be encouraged! Guitars aren't necessarily bad, dudes (cf Heidi & co's About You Now) - it's the hands that have wielded them over the last year or two that have been GRAVELY MISGUIDED.

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I am slightly wary of this trend as I can't think of *that* much evidence.

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Hoosiers: writing catchy pop songs! There is nothing wrong with them at all!
Bloc Party: last single was based around a bibbly trance synth (boring vocal melody but at least they are making an effort!)
Maccabees: new song = back to their best (phew!) and is very sweet pop without being kitchen sink-y
Klaxons: well I've gabbed on about this interminably - right idea, poor execution.

HOWEVER there is still much work to be done. I blame FOLK!

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

is that the bloc party 'flux' track. i have never noticed BP before except as the name of a band. then i caught this the other day on the radio. v like.

the hoosiers. hmm.

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The Hoosiers are this year's The Feeling. IT'S MY DEMOGRAPHIC GODDAMMIT

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

i like an ELO tribute band as much as the next poptimist.

last year's teh feeling falling fast though. their new song sounds oof

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petronia.livejournal.com

I started getting back into indie two months ago and the first thing I noticed was that everyone seems to be bored of guitars. (This is prolly more the post-Devendra East Coast scene though.)

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I think "Youtube Rap" should have been a trend, too.

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Whilst my favourite of all the above is obv Minimal, it was more of a 2006 thing really! Oooh check out my hipsterness etc etc

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This is sort of why I didn't tick bassline - I *want* it to have a really big impact NEXT year and be able to vote for it then.

Obviously if it needs my tick to fight off dancing w/an umbrella then I will switch!

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atommickbrane.livejournal.com

Stars going mental (should) encompasses the lot!! Or at least it should. I can't vote for the umbrella, that's just drunken poptimists going mental and they'll have someones eye out :) As much as it brakes hart not to vote for emo, I sort of AM because they are sort of stars and DEFINITELY mental or so I read from my emo correspondent :)

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It should be an easy win for bassline, really! Or at least a straight-up contest between balearic and bassline, which the latter would win by dint of not being completely inert.

Minimal is great obv but has been knocking round for ages now. Emo has also been around for ages, and is also still the worst thing ever. 'Dancing with an umbrella' - oh for goodness' sakes just wait to vote for 'Umbrella' in the best single poll! And has indie really been getting less rockish (and why does anyone CARE)?? I haven't heard this. Anyway nothing pertaining to indie should even be in the running.

Bassline basically feels like the most exciting thing to have happened this year - it's so exciting and hungry and full of life, and there's so much potential for it to go stratospheric.

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What about stars going mental?

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I don't think that's a new thing either! Or at least not a trend exactly.

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koganbot

It should be an easy win for bassline

Wikipedia doesn't even acknowledge it as a form of music. (I don't know if that refutes or supports the idea that it's a trend.)

What are your favorite bassline tracks (other than "Heartbroken")? (I'm listening to a bassline remix of Ciara's "Oh" right now and it's kind of meh, though "Oh" is something that really doesn't need to be messed with.)

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sbp.livejournal.com

I hate genre titles. Bassline is what the bass instrument plays, not an entire genre. Unless there really aren't any other instruments on the track.

See also Drum'n'Bass.

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koganbot

And guitar rock.

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The kidz are way ahead of wikipedia here.

Anyway I am completely hungover and unable to form thoughts so with minimal comment, some of my favourite bassline tunes du jour - all should be very easy to find on youtube (and following the 'similar videos' box is always good for building up quite an awesome bassline trail):

H2O ft Platnum - What's It Gonna Be?
I think I emailed this to you a while back? Infernally catchy boy-girl duet
TS7 ft Tonia - Smile
OK so right now this is the best and most perfectly unfolding verse ever: "I'm the kind of girl who does what she wants, gets what she needs / I'm a girl that's big on giving but I do like to receive / I know that there are people thinking sexual things about what I just said / but it goes to show you that the simplest things can be misread / but not this guy / this guy / he took his time to know me / and to show me / he opened up my eyes to new possibilities / but most of all / he makes me / he makes me / he makes me / he makes me... / he makes me smile"

T2 - Gonna Be Mine
Gemma Fox - Might Be

(above three can be d/lded from this blog (http://pardonmyfreedom.blogspot.com/2007/11/un-bruit-qui-court.html) - I prefer the DJ Q and X5 Dubs rmxes of Gemma Fox though; 'Gonna Be Mine' is AMAZING, "I'm gonna get to your heart, I'll take a shot in the dark, I never miss the mark - you're gonna be mine [bleep bleep swoop swoop wobble]")

Bliss'n'Script - Honey Child
loving the Virgo and Dexplicit mixes - reminds me of early Craig David from his 2-step days, sweet-sounding boy singer gets rejected, uses phrase "heavens to Betsy"
TS7 ft T Dot - Ding Dong
Stush-esque bratty female MC says: "I'll stick my back foot in ya mouth!" then pretends to be a doorbell

DJ Q - Shottas
JTJ Productions ft sMoKio & DB - Is You
this is pretty classic, bunch of MCs threatening to stab you with a fork over bomb explosions - video is proper thuggish, may post on poptimists properly
JTJ Productions - Dig The Way
sMoKio - Janno
s reynolds, who caught up with bassline like last week inna puffing'n'wheezing old man stylee, says this is chopped'n'screwed bassline - I agree

plus google just threw this link (http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/tm.asp?m=1969892228&mpage=1&key=&#1969918046) at me where you can download zipfiles of producer-specific track (JTJ, TS7 and TRC), woo! and of course there are bunches atop piles of hott bassline r&b rmxes of varying quality - dexplicit dropped an awesome one of 'Like A Boy' the other week, T2's official rmx of J Holiday's 'Bed' is wicked, as is DJ Q's rmx of Dizzee's 'Flex'.

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