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sqgl@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoDidn’t see this until now. Want to say I appreciate the detail and learned something.
Personally I crave novelty so I get bored of a genre soon after it is named. After all, there is no point in naming a genre unless there are many people copying it.
I recently discovered amapiano which is surprisingly popular considering the syncopated rhythms. But before I could go out to an amapiano club I realized there was a tight formula (narrower than what I initially perceived it to be: ie I thought it was just an electronic version of Afro jazz with occasional rap).
Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I have never heard of this genre (Amapiano) before, what would you say are its distinct features that feed into that formula? The Wikipedia article was not particularly helpful, for example it mentioned piano melodies bur they were very rare in the mixes I listened to. The log drums were the main aspect that seemed consistent throughout most tracks.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
There is rarely piano but when there is then it is electric piano. The other elements are a single note or chord stab on the off-beat (or every second off-beat, sometimes every second on-beat for variety).
Shakers.
Amazingly this song reached #1 in South Africa? No vocals and syncopated rhythm.
This guy (with a Greek Father) was huge but died young. Here is another track of his.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Yes that’s probably true, I guess from the genres I am coming from I mentally associate the word “piano” with a specific sound emulating that of a non-electric/traditional piano with some added reverb and sometimes delay.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
In finding this Rhodes piano video for you I finally realise that the very low bass notes have a grungey tone (clipping distortion). I even played one of these weekly at my music teacher’s place but did not notice.