Why do people in D.C pretend go go is good?
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i have developed an appreciation for local black music from every city including no bounce, memphis juke, miami bass, chicago house, detroit techno, baltimore club, etc. dc's gogo is the only local black music that i can't understand. tried very hard to like it. even had posters in other threads post their best tracks, still it sounds wack to me. it sounds like a bunch of first year howard band students just playing around after practice. always said of chicago nikkas went to a live gogo set, they would be standing around like wtf is this shyt. the musicianship doesn't sound serious. but even with all that, should still be preserved as a legacy of black music.
btw, I grew up on house in chicago.
btw, I grew up on house in chicago.
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This will give you a good taste of Go Go in its prime
You can skip DC Scorpio at the beginning
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So, worse than country folk and EDM?
Yes
I had the cassette single for Doo Doo Brown.
The number callouts are taking me back. 102.7, 88.9 (which I still listen to sometimes)…
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
I fukks with go go but I can see how it can’t be for some people. I remember seeing someone on twitter say go go beats sound like somebody playing with change in their pocket.
The legendary iconic Ms. Patti Labelle sangin' over some go-go beats:
There would be no "New Jack Swing" either w/o GoGo. That bouncy swing/swung 16th pattern that became the foundation of NJS came right out of GoGo music (informed by Jazz)
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Miami Bass wouldn't exist w/o it either
Go-Go Bites: Country Cousins
Go-Go Bites: Country Cousins
Soundman needs a raise. Not easy with a large band without all the instruments taking up sonic space.
again no one made the music thinking This is gonna catch on.
Yes the musicality was lessened as time went on Chuck Brown and Little Benny were serious musicians.
I never had a music lesson in my life. It never occurred to me that you had to have musical talent.
shyt when I went to college a joined the marching Band it was just like Drumline. The arranger wrote a drum warm up for us, and I couldn´t read a note.
I was flabbergasted by the idea that you needed to be taught how to play the drums I thought it was like dancing you just heard and caught the rhytmn.
It´s like trying to practice Gospel music in a church choir or even a free jazz concert no matter what you practice it´s gonna sound different live.
If you´re dude not from the urea I can understand how you don´t understand it but generally speaking you get any FBA girls or even tethers that´s brought up in Black american culture and they´ll get it if they hear it live (well before the Rough it off area) that was kinda like DC Drill before Drill was a thing.
Wow that´s amazing you´d think Patti is too old to understand Old school Hip Hop and they got her being a Front Talker?
Basically Go Go is Traditional African Music played on modern instruments
It´s basically the same as this without the marimbas