A new track by Fly Lo with Bus­driver on the mic. Here.

There’s lot of new elec­tronic music terms/genres/themes over the past few years. Dub­step is quite self-evident and jus­ti­fied, Skweee is ulti­mately just dis­tin­guish­able style of elec­tro, Bal­ti­more is solely par­ty­mu­sic and “blog house” just futile term (imo New House would be bet­ter). This sum­mer we have yet another theme for music that have existed pretty long time.

Mar­tin Clark calls it “Wonky”, Sasha Frere-Jones “lazer bass”, Mega­soid calls the music “psy­che­delic robo crunk remix action” , Ghis­lain Poirier uses the phrase “bas­tard bass”, edIT offered the phrase “dig­i­tal crunk shit.” and the list goes on. This music has been going on since EL-P  and Def Jux (which strangely no one men­tions when talk­ing about this new gen­er­a­tion of futur­is­tic hip hop shit), Dabrye and Prefuse 73.

I’ve been refer­ring this music just “off-beat” hip hop or lately “Elec­tronic Beats” (which refers closely to Eliot Lipp’s blog of the same name). All I know that I’ve liked it all the time never mind the term. If it’s good. So this is loosely the theme for this months Kyny­Nasty party. Off-beats, Skweee, New House and yes, some Chip­tunes too. The Return of the Boom Bap? Perhaps.

More about “Wonky”:
Mar­tin Clark’s Pitch­fork arti­cle
“Lazer-guided” arti­cle at The New Yorker
“Wonk Fonk”, free mix for down­load
Hud­son Mohawke — Hudson’s Heeters, beat tape (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Off-topic:
What is Wonky techno? Phew, you could spend hours and hours research­ing all the gen­res and styles.