Something In The Air - Official Video.

dunkno · Post by **dunkno** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:15 pm

zhao, wtf are you chatting about?

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:55 pm

zhao wrote:
elgato wrote:personally i found the video amusing and found it completely in tune with the tone of the tune, so i was intrigued by zhao's response (and still am)
to me bongo jam is a celebration of epic proportions, a volcanic joy that can not be stopped, and it feels like one that has been repressed for a long time (by dubstep? haha), and finally erupting with the righteousness of rain after a drought.

to me bongo jam is, like someone else said, a happy and lighthearted, surely, but also very much serious tune. it expresses happiness with deadly CONVICTION, and not cheap bubblegum frivolity.

its interesting that you perceive it that way, but i would argue that you receive the tune with deadly conviction and seriousness, just as someone else would receive it with levity and frivolity. i don't think you can lay claim that that seriousness is inherent in the tune, by any means

the idea that joy had been repressed in music for a long time until this point can only be a subjective reflection in this context. i can't see how you could argue that that applies in any objective sense

zhao · Post by **zhao** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:20 pm

ya i prolly take this music shit more seriously, and read into it more than a lot of people. but hey, that's what the tune makes me think and it's how it makes me feel.

but funky really is the first truly "happy" UK urban music in a long time, no? i mean garage had some bright moments but not like, Joyful and celebratory like this.

rachel · Post by **rachel** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:13 pm

zhao wrote: but funky really is the first truly "happy" UK urban music in a long time, no? i mean garage had some bright moments but not like, Joyful and celebratory like this.

i don't know. right now i'm listening to bongo jam and i'm in a reeeeeealy bad mood. what does THAT mean?!

rachel · Post by **rachel** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:19 pm

nb fwiw i like the video. unashamedly basic and a lot of fun, which is how i always felt about the tune anyway. and any kind of critical thinking abt bongo jam that stretches to more than one sentence is bloody ridiculous

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:48 pm

rachel wrote:any kind of critical thinking abt bongo jam that stretches to more than one sentence is bloody ridiculous

lol... guilty

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:51 pm

zhao wrote:i mean garage had some bright moments but not like, Joyful and celebratory like this.

you're crazy!!!

plus that would ignore the fact that house has been bubbling along in London / the UK under the radar of most outside it for a pretty long time

it would also ignore Mala! and plenty others besides

and 'urban' is a problematic one

funky stanton · Post by **funky stanton** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:33 pm

zhao wrote: i mean garage had some bright moments but not like, Joyful and celebratory like this.

WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT?????

"This one's going out to all you pretty girls, put your hand's up in the air I wanna analyse the socio political issues raised by bongo jam."

rachel · Post by **rachel** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:33 pm

and wot

neville bartos · Post by **neville bartos** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:44 pm

rachel wrote:and wot

Bad track.

zhao · Post by **zhao** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:05 am

Funky Stanton wrote: WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT?????

point taken but even in this kind of party ukg the mood is still reserved, restrained and cool, and not the uninhibited joy of bongo jam.

that's my feeling and my perspective as an outsider anyhow.

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:11 am

This thread gets 10/10 for giggles!

I really like the vid, its a class idea, but the wobble cam doesn't help.

Emo-House all day long me!!

rachel wrote:and any kind of critical thinking abt bongo jam that stretches to more than one sentence is bloody ridiculous

quoted again for truth.

Zhao... you would be a right laugh down the pub!

zhao · Post by **zhao** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:30 am

haha im also a different person in pubs... surely a barrow of laffs but in another way.

how you like the NGOMA3 doom? not many obvious tunes on it.

geiom · Post by **geiom** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:40 pm

Missed this before...amazing video, totally abstract and no bling/club/champagne/cars etc....

genius.

also think that for totally different reasons the bongo jam video is sick - its just got a sense of humour that does not happen in U.S. style videos....reminds me of the 'carry on' films in a way....

seen · Post by **seen** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:25 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jutxPW6KL8I
the full video sneaked its way on to you tube yesterday.

also my 3 highlights of the bongo jam video are:
the toothbrush
the iron
the jiffy cloths.

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