For anyone not familiar with the style of glitch-hop, we offer this, our favorite definition of the genre, proffered by Daly City Records Founder and
Producer Mochipet: “Glitch-Hop is like Hip
Hop stuck into a blender whipped and then poured over layers of Bass lasagna
and topped with a good heaping of Rave Synth Sauce and some 8-bit samples of
Chucky Cheese Parmesan” If you listened
to Prefuse 73 or Aphex Twin back in the day, you are an OG glitch-hop fan, and
maybe you didn’t even know it.
Glitch –hop is a genre based on an aesthetic of
failure. The sounds of CD skips,
system errors and other audio mishaps make up the building block of these
beats. It’s the electronic
embodiment of the phrase “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Mid-tempo hip-hop beats, rap, and
crunk samples blend with these glitches to get the hybrid which is
Glitch-Hop. Think: bangin
old-school boom box and OG Nintendo system had a baby for your aural pleasure.
This genre is poised to leap from the
underground and give dubstep a run for its money on the Denver scene, led by
Colorado artists like Tree Thugger and international acts
like Opiuo, who threw down with TreeThugger,
Govinda, and Gaudi recently for Re:Creation at Cervantes. Greg Fisk, aka Tree
Thugger produces original glitch-hop tracks that capture different moods,
but he always keeps the bass bumping and the heads nodding. The Fractured Feelings EP moves you through a sonic journey that visits beautiful melodic
mountaintops and booty shaking bass valleys.
We love Anonymous for
taking us on a mystical ride that’s a delicate blend of relaxing and
uplifting. And really, We're not gonna lie, SubSonic Dart hits
just the right key of 90s dance jam for us. It strikes a chord with girls who used to choreograph
dances to En Vogue in the driveway after school. The EP also features remixes by Colorado favorites
like Samples, Crushendo, Just Ben, Papa Skunk and ProJect Aspect. Support Colorado music and get on this release!
TreeThugger's live audio manipulation
blends swagger and stutters into an irresistible performance. Follow his movements with the Whomp Truck, which he is involved with. This summer he will be playing at Sonic Bloom and at River Beats at State Bridge (July 27-28) as part of live remix act Fresh2Death,
a group known for getting the party live!
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