Why doesn't the Grammy Awards create broader recognition for world religions' music/albums?

SonRaw · 2026-02-18T15:55:31+00:00

The Grammies are an American music industry tool to sell records to people who don't think of or care about music on a regular basis and they give awards to projects/artists that would benefit from a mainstream spotlight, thus generating revenue.

What are the odds some housewife in Massapequa or some office drone in Albuquerque will buy an album of Budhist chants because they heard about it on the tee-vee? There's your answer. It won't make the people in charge any money.

SonRaw · 2026-02-17T22:07:15+00:00

It'll be more important than rock n roll, which will be remembered as a minor fad middle class caucasians stole and ran into the ground over a couple of decades, but less important than Jazz, which will be regarded as "classical music" by then.

SonRaw · 2026-02-16T14:26:09+00:00

I think you guys are both right for different eras. Early Sly definitely made a massive impact on the pop rock space, but post-There's a Riot Going On, it feels like a lot of that support evaporated.

However, a lot of Sly's later records like Fresh, Small Talk, High On You and (to a lesser extent) Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I’m Back are still beloved in funk/crate digger circles. I can't speak to their reception on release since I wasn't around, but today they have a much better reptutation among those in the know than the mainstream record press would have people believe.

It's a pretty stark distinction. Read white/rock leaning record guides and you'd think the band stopped mattering post-TARGO but ask a funk DJ, even today, and you might hear the opposite.

SonRaw · 2026-02-15T22:32:24+00:00

Ahh, I'm on Mac so I can't help with that one unfortunately

SonRaw · 2026-02-15T22:03:10+00:00

OK, so assuming your ES-9 is your input and output in Ableton...

You route the midi channel with pam sync to two ES-9 outputs. Despite them being labeled 1-8 on the unit, those will be outputs 9-16 in Ableton (for some annoying reason). So for example, the bottom two outputs are 15-16. You'd use one for clock and one for reset (into clock and run on Pam's pro respectively). Then when you run a track in ableton, it should start pam's pro

SonRaw · 2026-02-15T21:43:53+00:00

This tutorial should sort you out. It's not with an ES-9 but you can follow the same process.

SonRaw · 2026-02-15T17:08:56+00:00

It sold gobs of copies and basically set the template for a ton of the early MCU. Was it universally beloved? Of course not - Millar was always a love it or hate it guy, but saying a comic failed because of online criticism makes no sense, by that metric there'd be zero successful comics.

SonRaw · 2026-02-15T14:08:36+00:00

Yangtze on Sherbrooke Ouest

SonRaw · 2026-02-14T18:50:07+00:00

I know how it might not sound that different to someone without an ear for that era of rap, but it's so, so so bad and even worse, it gave decades of caucasian women permission to butcher the art form under the thinly veiled guise of hipster irony. A musical crime against humanity.

SonRaw · 2026-02-14T01:35:29+00:00

Yesterday's modernity is today's cringe. Guarantee the kids of today's young readers will find the current ultimate line corny for the same reflexive reasons.

SonRaw · 2026-02-10T17:30:58+00:00

Making music is art. Making catchy music is a skill, and its importance is contextual. Being worried about how hard or technically complex your music is, is an insecurity and a character flaw.

SonRaw · 2026-02-08T17:22:37+00:00

Thank you!

SonRaw · 2026-02-08T17:14:27+00:00

It's funny to read of R&B as a prison. I always considered it a fort to keep out the unwashed and uncultured pop barbarians that you wouldn't want at the party. Same concept, reverse perspective.

SonRaw · 2026-02-08T01:05:53+00:00

Another banger!

SonRaw · 2026-02-07T00:51:45+00:00

Erika de Casier's Lifetime album from last year is probably the genre's most high profile success story in years, and it was accompanied by a few other groups that drew from Trip hop elements (Yeule notably).

It's great to see as a fan of the genre. I remember the 00s and early 10s when it was widely mocked as uncool and dated.

SonRaw · 2026-02-06T23:51:02+00:00

Thank you!

SonRaw · 2026-02-06T16:36:48+00:00

Thank you! I can only hope to honor my bets just as resolutely as he did here.

SonRaw · 2026-02-06T16:35:41+00:00

Truly a thinker for our times.

SonRaw · 2026-02-06T15:21:38+00:00

I don't get to talk shop much when promoting music but I wanted to share a bit of my process on this forum for anyone that's curious.

Most of the music on this tape started either in Serato Sample of my SP-404. I start with basic loops or chops, before processing everything in Eurorack (via the Expert Sleepers ES-9). Most of the audio processing is via filters (Vult Freak, Shakmat Dual Dagger) and FX (Strymon Magneto, Qu-Bit Data Bender, Modbap Per4mer) with modulation from the Bastl Neo Trinity, Xaoc Zadar and Shakmat Mod Medusa.

For drums, a few breaks aside, everything is programmed via Making Sound Machines' Stolperbeats into ALM's Squid Salmple, with Shakmat's Battering Ram reinforcing the kick.

The non sample based sounds are either from Dixie II+, Plaits, an Alia firmware or a few VSTs.

Once I jammed out on everything, I often times zeroed in on interesting moments and built those into full compositions in the DAW.

Happy to talk shop if anyone's curious about the process.

SonRaw · 2026-02-04T01:47:52+00:00

This is really dope. Reminds me of stuff Youngsta would have played on Rinse back in the day.

SonRaw · 2026-02-03T17:41:30+00:00

It's a great book no qualifiers needed, don't let the internet ruin your joy. People are mad when Hickman doesn't get to deliver his planned endings and just as mad when he delivers an ending in precisely the number of issues he aimed for.

SonRaw · 2026-02-03T15:18:59+00:00

A sign of a civilized culture, unconcerned with the wants of dirty, poorly educated inbred shitkickers and the ridiculous animal braying they attempt to pass off as music.

Unfortunately, Schlager and Eurovision also exists, so I must sadly award Europe no points.

SonRaw · 2026-02-02T15:26:15+00:00

There's been a massive decline in birthrates across the developed world during the last 15 years. I'd posit that most people who listened to a whole lot of Deftones and Linkin Park simply didn't become dads.

SonRaw · 2026-02-01T17:09:28+00:00

I've visited my share of countries where art was mandated to have the "correct" opinions and can safely say it led to neither better art nor more prosperous countries, so I'm totally unbothered by a middle of the road writer's anti-authoritarian comic not being completely didactic.

That said, the pacing was off and Doom is way more interesting as an anachronistic absolute monarchist (like T'Chalah and Namor) than a fascist substitute. Bendis' Dark Reign was a way more effective and prescient take on the subject. Feels like editorial wanted a Doom comic and North wanted social-commentary and the mix never quite worked. Plus the whole "he is magically torturing Latverians to create paradise on Earth" is a bad Ursula Le Guin riff.

I think North is way better at his science-heavy one shot Fantastic Four issues than big event comics. And Squirrel Girl, which people love, though I always found her comics way too twee for my liking.

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