Music Music Music... manipulation of Classical sensation leading to an urban Collaboration?

Question

Coming from many backgrounds I love loads of different music; eastern western, anything that’s on my frequency. As a child I listened to Mozart, Tchaikovsi and Vivaldi as well as reggae hiphop and mash ups...I was wondering if any of you fellow eclectic music lovers happen to know of any mixes or classical hiphop/rnb collaborations? An example of what I’m looking for is the mixed version of Mozart’s Cunning linguistics...just classical that has been well mixed for an urban sound rougher beats laced on top violin etc ...hope you can help

glinzek you really are ignorant...how incompetent! do you lack that much imagination that much culture...you find it difficult for two different cultures equally as great as each to integrate...you need to reassess yourself...FYI I believe a lot of people copy ethnical “black” music and vice versa. before replying to a question like this grow some roots and diversity embrace the culture we live in! how disappointing you are not just to me but to yourself.

Answer 1

You have just stumbled onto a new era of music for someone to start! hummm....

Answer 2

Personal attacks are out of line on this forum. Glinzek did not attack you and was merely making a musical judgement with which I would have to agree. While such remixes may have some small entertainment value, classical music seems to be doing fairly well on its' own absorbing folk and ethnic musics using classical techniques rather than resorting to the inane trappings of some popular music styles.

Musician, published composer, teacher.

Answer 3

Sure -- and while we're at it let's have the New Christy Minstrels do a remix of Ray Charles "What I say", The Doors doing covers of Carpenter's tunes, polka versions of Rolling Stones hits, etc. etc.

Yeccch!

Are the reggae and hip hop folks so starved for ideas that they have to borrow from other music idioms? Tell 'em to write their own stuff. That's what the classical folks have been doing for 300 years.

A truly eclectic music lover hopefully will love the purity of each of the genres that he/she listens to enough to respect their differences in style and heritage, and reject this "remix" nonsense altogether.


EDIT:

You are out of line. I don't recall hurling insults your way.
It is one thing to write music that is influenced by another genre or idiom. It is totally another thing to simply sample somebody else's work and then superimpose a "modern" beat to it. One is an intellectually honest art form, the other implies elements of plagiarism, and is intellectually suspect.

I'm not making any cultural judgements here, so don't try to pin any labels on me by deliberately misrepresenting my arguments. My musical tastes are as eclectic as anybody's on this board. I am making artistic and intellectual judgements. I think it would be laughable and ridiculous for Willie Nelson to do an album of Puccini arias with a country shuffle beat. Turn that around -- have the Boston Pops do a "cover" of "Red-Headed Stranger" and it will make you cringe, won't it?

I think you have a great deal of nerve questioning my competence and level of knowledge. I frankly don't give a damn that I've "disappointed" you, and I certainly haven't disappointed myself.

Answer 4

I see no need to pollute what is great with pop culture trash. Hip hop barely qualifies as music, we don't need Mozart's epitome's of beauty being used to embellish such tripe. Although I get the same effect frequently while sitting at the traffic lights when some joker with speakers more powerful than his car pulls up next to me and pollutes my personal space with such nonsense.

Answer 5

Check out The Brian Setzer Orchestra's "Wolfgang's Big Night Out"

Answer 6

HEHE. Nice idea. have you heard of neoclassical? you might like it. Gerchwin brought jazz into classical and also Shostakovich. why not hiphop? Glinzek is conservative because he listened to classical all his life. I don't blame him. So were many of my teachers. You're thinking outside the box which is good. But make sure you bring something worthy into classical!!!!!!!


GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 7

well I'm sort of with Glinzek on this BUT I do believe it is worth a try although I'll probably find it terribly annoying