I agree that category names for music can be silly and confining, but the librarian in me needs to sort through ridiculous amounts of music to use in DJ sets, and I find the “genre” meta-tag field in my software to be extremely helpful for organization. Often I can quickly slap a few keywords into that field to categorize the the track, even when — like many of my favorite tracks — it doesn’t fit neatly into one genre: “dancehall / gabba / new jack swing”.

I had been noticing though, that certain tracks manage to escape even those broad confines, and it’s at that point when I start to make things up, or search for new terms floating around. I’ve started using the term “party music” or “bouncement” for stuff that will obviously rock the dance-floor but I can’t tell what genre it is.

Sasha’s article struck me because he was talking about some of this music with the crazy bass-lines that doesn’t fall under the “bassline-house”, “fidget-house” or “dubstep” categories. Now that you mention it, I do notice that the Megasoid stuff is strongly routed in hip-hop/breakbeat rhythms, as apposed to house or dub like those other styles.

In the end it’s all just music, but I think Sasha was touching on the fact that y’all’re at the un-classifiable forefront. Much respect for that.

I think the specific connection that Sasha was referring to was the one of immediate circle of visible friends, which in the case of the the LA, Mtl, Ny, Glasgow is kinda obvious, due to crossed bookings/remixings, but it automatically negates other citys…

I don’t think it was intentional, and the interview from which he quotes us certainly included references to a lot of other scenes and players than the ones mentioned (I am pretty sure that Van’s Michael Red was included in that interview, as well as high profle berliners like Mdslktr and dudes like Milanese)….

Anyways, it seems like a good look, although I certainly do not attach a title to the music outside of our club night “Turbo Crunk” which has apparently made it’s own way to genre status, and is just comical to us.

I mean, people everywhere are making this sound, and the affinity/appeal is broad, so I guess people will throw around titles, we are just trying to make banging rap and dacnehall music that works in the clubs.

Ayo!

peace.

ps: it’s called “Tank Thong”! haha.

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Wonky makes me think of the DnB track “Wonkey Donkey” out on Ganja records.

Good beats though.