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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
Every other artist who last.fm has tagged as "glitch hop" has for more of a funky vibe to it. Crying Over Pros For No Reason had a more downbeat and less danceable feeling to it, yet it's one of my favourite albums to listen to when I'm reading.
Here's a perfect example:
Michna - Magic Mondays
With an album title like that I was hoping it'd help cheer up my Monday, however it was so uninspired and boring that when it finished I barely even noticed... I love the sound that edIT made for glitch-hop, but everyone else (with the exception of Tipper) has been disappointment after disappointment.
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I think your expectations are the problem, then.
Seems like you keep wanting every album that someone labels as glitch-hop to sound like
edIT. I don't think
Michna is glitch-hop at all, personally, it's just downtempo electronic/IDM. I think it's a good album (though it took a few listens to appreciate)...but I prefer his work in
Secret Frequency Crew.
For something closer to glitch-hop try
Prefuse 73's first two albums,
Dabrye's
One/Three,
Lukid (practically no funk here),
Flying Lotus,
DAK's
Standthis, and maybe
Jimmy Edgar. Not that I'm saying those will sound like
edIT...but they're closer than
Michna. But for all I know you'd feel the same way about all of those, because you really want the same kind of glitchiness that
edIT uses. I liked
Crying Over Pros for No Reason a whole lot at first, and I still like it, but when I listen to it now it almost feels too gimmicky and overly glitchy...like a glitch filter was just applied over the whole album.
And I take it back, I'm sampling
Michna's album a bit now to refresh my memory, it does have a bit of a glitch-hop vibe but I think it's very secondary in his sound.