lol it took me a while to understand the proteinshake bit!UFO over easy wrote:leaving aside the proteinshake side of things how would you differentiate this from the really clean bumpy kinda stuff by people like trimsound? is that just all a bit nicer maybe?
i bought this on a random one the other day. check 16 maybe 17 maybe 18, really weirded out but dancefloor
http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/se ... ck=TRIP047
everything that follows is absolutely my take on things, i would be keen to hear other perspectives
its actually really hard to express what distinguishes them to me. i guess its just vibe and tone... as you say, i think of fidget (as i understand the term, i.e. the older styles) as being more twisted and enjoying the slightly weirder and less wholesome side of things. it revels in those sounds and movements that make you feel weirded out and slightly uncomfortable, rather than the tweaky bits that make you smile or tweak or whatever. more emphasis on rave elements or influence from places like UK garage, dancehall and such maybe rather than the later waves of US house (although fidget too apparently grew out of the UK deep house scene). i think trimsound and such is probably in that sense more of a purist take on things. but in a way that anything goes impurism of fidget is maybe what led to the current status quo where most things i see filed as fidget to me are like electro house tunes or diplo-endorsed 'global' booty or whatever. which to be frank i am not that pleased about, i find most of that (in that context) bland and irritating, lacking in vibe
that kind of pinpoints with retrospect the point at which i lost interest (in addition to a more boorish, bashy peak-time vibe), when it lost too much of its connection with house (in a broad sense... as much Adonis as MAW) and and became such a melange of of-the-moment vibes. there used to be stuff that was jarring and rushy and weird but totally hypnotic and groovy, which took you to a zone and held you there rather than just banging you around the head with comic wobbly basslines. sound familiar ha
production in the two styles is similarly crisp and clean, but generally fidget is maybe a bit more bulbous and cartoonish
i'll try to dig out some older mixes / tunes that reflect the kind of vibe im harking back to
