Didn’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).
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 but they were very rare in the mixes I listened to. The log drums were the main aspect that seemed consistent throughout most tracks.
Log drums are tiring after an hour. I hope one day they depart from that ingredient.
There is rarely piano but when there is then it is electric piano which has a very different sound you may not recognize(?)
The other elements are shakers and…
a single note or chord stab on the off-beat (or every second off-beat, sometimes every second on-beat for variety).
Amazingly this song reached #1 in South Africa? Syncopated rhythm and no vocals — I don’t know of such a #1 track anywhere in the world. SA has rhythm.
This guy (with a Greek Father) was huge but died young. Here is another track of his.
Here is s long mix by a woman from that #1 track. More that she was popular enough to play in Australia (long way from SA and not many give available here).
There is rarely piano but when there is then it is electric piano which has a very different sound you may not recognize(?)
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.
Didn’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).
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 but they were very rare in the mixes I listened to. The log drums were the main aspect that seemed consistent throughout most tracks.
Log drums are tiring after an hour. I hope one day they depart from that ingredient.
There is rarely piano but when there is then it is electric piano which has a very different sound you may not recognize(?)
The other elements are shakers and…
a single note or chord stab on the off-beat (or every second off-beat, sometimes every second on-beat for variety).
Amazingly this song reached #1 in South Africa? Syncopated rhythm and no vocals — I don’t know of such a #1 track anywhere in the world. SA has rhythm.
This guy (with a Greek Father) was huge but died young. Here is another track of his.
Here is s long mix by a woman from that #1 track. More that she was popular enough to play in Australia (long way from SA and not many give available here).
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.