Often
times, I am not the first to know about a new style of music, as it either gets
it genre name from someone outside of the source (like a writer, record label,
whoever) or someone within the scene itself.
I do tend to find out about the newer styles of music before most other
people (Seapunk, for example), but I’m in no way the first or on the cusp
maybe.
Maybe I
just typed that because I wanted to use the word “cusp”.
There
may or may not be an entire genre based on “TRU WAV”, the name of this
cassette, but I prefer not to know if there is and rather speculate as to what
I think it is about if there is no existing genre yet anyway,
We Have
the Technology have a sort of seapunk quality to their music and that makes
sense because they have a sort of seapunk name but are not 100% seapunk because
then this would be a much easier review to write.
I like
to hear some Rachel Haircut coming out in here and that makes me happy. The music is synth and dance beats with those
“Ow! Ow!” noises that come with the territory.
Even the song “Higher” itself
declares “I’ve got the music! I got the rhythm!”
In a
more serious way, this would be something like soul or funk, a virtual James
Brown if you will. But without those
aspects of modems trying to connect to AOL, we also fall short of the seapunk
category, which makes me want to call this “TRU WAV” with the “TRU” standing
for Toys R Us.
Why? Well, because it’s the type of music that I
could see people making who enjoy Toys R Us on some level, which is not to say
that they don’t take their craft seriously but it’s just not as serious as Ike
and Tina or little Michael Jackson hiding under the bed.
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