House Music On The Beat

[Ragga_Wh0re]

so,i was actually listening to the radio on like friday afternoon...and to my surprise there was house music!

I dont understand why they are spinning house music on an urban radio station when in theory house music doesnt have much to do with urban music ie hip hop.

I mean when you sit back and think about it,drum&bass was heavily influeneced by hardcore and breakbeats,wouldnt it make better sense to the dumbasses at the beat to spin dnb as opposed to house?

The only down side to dnb getting mainstream airplay is that itd probabally eventually get gobbled up by pop culture and we can kiss our precious dnb good bye.
Its already happening in the UK,which is sad but like everything underground,its bound to become mainstream and raped by the media&pop culture.

for instance...HIP HOP.


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[trance4life]

whats a radio?

http://www.digitallyimported.com/

go check it out

[Ragga_Wh0re]

^shut up.

[Clayton.]

They should have a few hours of house every day.

[InSoMnIaK*]

^agree

[Wood]

in north america, house has a lot more to do with urban music than breaks & dnb do. house & hiphop essentially come from the same roots, they're like twins who were separated at birth. Drum'n'Bass evolved out of the early hardcore rave scene in the UK before it was exported to NA, whereas house & hiphop were born here.

Both house & hiphop have grown up into vast & varied genres, both with a more palatable mainstream side, and both with a rawer, 'underground' side. Mainstream house & mainstream hiphop both rely heavily on RnB influenced vocals, and are probably the two most mass-appealing sounds in the nightclubs of north america. Consequently, you get a lot of the same people liking both styles.

[Dead Mike]

the house they play is hurting.

[DJDeeb]

i've heard that The beat is no longer just an "Urban" music station. They now play new "pop" music along with the R&B they usually do.
Z95 is now playing the 80's and 90s stuff. Jack is playing 70's and early 80's stuff.


I don;t know thats just what I heard;)

[trance4life]

internet radio is where it is at

[Ragga_Wh0re]

Originally Posted by Wood

in north america, house has a lot more to do with urban music than breaks & dnb do. house & hiphop essentially come from the same roots, they're like twins who were separated at birth. Drum'n'Bass evolved out of the early hardcore rave scene in the UK before it was exported to NA, whereas house & hiphop were born here.

Both house & hiphop have grown up into vast & varied genres, both with a more palatable mainstream side, and both with a rawer, 'underground' side. Mainstream house & mainstream hiphop both rely heavily on RnB influenced vocals, and are probably the two most mass-appealing sounds in the nightclubs of north america. Consequently, you get a lot of the same people liking both styles.

i did not know that,i thought house came from disco and hip hop from rock,funk and jazz.

now i understand more as to why they r playing house on the beat, i emailed the djs posing my questions but they didnt answer my questions. They basically just said thats the way it is and thats the way its going to be.

thanx.

[wishbone]

Originally Posted by ~*goddessa*~

i did not know that,i thought house came from disco and hip hop from rock,funk and jazz.

now i understand more as to why they r playing house on the beat, i emailed the djs posing my questions but they didnt answer my questions. They basically just said thats the way it is and thats the way its going to be.

thanx.

what they're really saying:

money, money money.



i've tuned in, and yea their house music i've got is alright but it's definately not my style of house I like. And also i'm glad they dont play dnb.

[Dead Mike]

they dont even understand DnB.

[Ragga_Wh0re]

no they dont. they didnt understand what i was asking they just said some bullshit about moving out of thier "niche" and reccomended that i listen to thier shitty radio station on saturdays and sundays...


how about lets not and say we did.

im also glad they dont spin dnb,but its bound to happen.

:(

[Mc*Phee]

On the beat they said that hose music is becomming more popular in Vancity and so that makes it "urban" therefore they are putting it on air. I like house and some of the djs they have had are better then others. I think they play it thursdays 6-7 and sat 8-10. I want to hear Hirshee on the beat :)

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by ~*goddessa*~

i did not know that,i thought house came from disco and hip hop from rock,funk and jazz.

now i understand more as to why they r playing house on the beat, i emailed the djs posing my questions but they didnt answer my questions. They basically just said thats the way it is and thats the way its going to be.

thanx.

Hip hop and house both came from Electro. Electro came from Disco, Funk, Rock and Jazz.

Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk, Cybotron etc.

Consider also that House came from the same scene that Funk came from. Namely, the Black Gay Club Scene in major urban areas (Chicago, New York, etc.)

And yeah, DnB came from the Oldschool Rave which was a response to the Acid House craze which was a European twist (well, UK, really) on the whole House thing. So a lot of stuff comes from House.

Considering the origins of House can pretty much be traced directly to Chicago, it's fairly easy to consider that it's a form of "urban" music.

[SEAN!]

the mainstream dosnt give a shit about drum and bass in this country..nor do they know it even exists.

house has the same orgins as hip hop..they just traveled divergant paths

[Silver Tongue]

Nothing wrong with a little house... beats some of that garbage the beat plays... I do listen to the old school lunch at work.. dig it

[Ragga_Wh0re]

yeah im pretty uneduacted when it comes to house music just cuz ive never really been drawn to it,or been exposed to it alot,simply because i just havent had a hankering for it.but yah 4 glasses of wine+posting on fnk and trying to remain some what intelligent just dont happen.


okthanxbye

[ebbomega]

"Not everyone understands House music. It's a spiritual thing. A body thing. A soul thing."
- Eddie Amador.

[Dead Mike]

music is what u hear it as. there is no definition.

if the beat played DnB, people wouldnt listen, cept us