- Wonky Wednesday
Wonky Wednesday is an initiative prompted by the infatigable Charly & Gallus (Antilounge, Dirty Agga Crew, B.A.F,…) in collaboration with our very own DJ Tomlaan (Stripewaves) and the good people of Cafe’ De Vinger in Den Haag.
It’s gonna be an intensive session – Charly & Gallus, Tomlaan, and other DJ’s will be mixing the deepest, chewiest dubstep with the musical phenomenon officiously tagged “stuiterbeats” by Gallus himself (other sources refer to this as “glitch-hop”, others “experimental hiphop”, yet others as “fidget beats” although the latter is closer to the minimal scene).
“Stuiterbeats” is an array of techniques for producing asymmetric incomplete measures: the musical result is a downtempo “stuttering” or rather “limping” rhythmic pattern (technically, the beats would have time signatures like 15/16, or 21/16, or worse).
The decomposition techniques are often applied to hiphop-backbeat-like samples, and I seem to recognize an aesthetic agreement on accentuating the vinyl noise on the beats.
These techniques are being pioneered by artists such as Flying Lotus, Slugabed, Hudson Mohawke, Dorian Concept, Joker, and to some extent, historically, on some Richard Devine experimental tracks [could someone fill me on this one please?]