sampladelia

Chillwave looms large on this playlist (with multiple variants including Gayngs 'mellow madness, Hype Williams's suavely menacing sampladelia and Salem's illwave/witch house), and you could say that it and Summer Camp/Magic Kids' neo-C86 indie-pop were actually last year's story, but this was the year they put records out.

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This tended to mean the words and the beats got progressively harder and more viscerally impactful, from Schoolly D to Public Enemy to NWA to Dre/Snoop to Dre/Eminem, but there were, away from the revolutionary street action, equally decisive and abrupt moves towards, say, Day-Glo sampladelia by De La Soul or into the realm of "bliss-hop" by PM Dawn. journalist Neil Kulkarni puts up a strong argument to the contrary - but we can't hear such progress today.

Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul Lester 2010

This tended to mean the words and the beats got progressively harder and more viscerally impactful, from Schoolly D to Public Enemy to NWA to Dre/Snoop to Dre/Eminem, but there were, away from the revolutionary street action, equally decisive and abrupt moves towards, say, Day-Glo sampladelia by De La Soul or into the realm of "bliss-hop" by PM Dawn. journalist Neil Kulkarni puts up a strong argument to the contrary - but we can't hear such progress today.

Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul Lester 2010