Post #368704 by Tiki Bill on Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:02 AM

I think Tipsy is GREAT! But I just listened to "space Golf" again just to be sure, and its all made from snippets of other peoples stuff. I use this technique myself when doing electronica and hip hop. I own and operate a recording studio here in Florida, and I know sample snippet's when I hear them. I use them too! But I put it in the electronica genre where it belongs. I'm not saying it's bad, but it is what it is. Finding all those loops and arranging them in a coherent manner is VERY difficult, and an art form in itself. Space Golf probably took weeks to make. So please don't be offended when I say they didn't "play" the actual instruments. That doesn't make the members of Tipsy any less musically talented than anyone else, they just did it differently than us "old school" exotica composers. In fact , you have to be a GREAT arranger with a vast knowledge of music to do some of the things I've heard from modern DJ's. But those ARE samples being used in the Tipsy stuff. And while I really like what I've heard, I still must class it as electronica. THIS ISN'T A BAD THING! And while the exotica crowd may love it for it's crossover ability, it's not exotica. As a producer, I write music in almost every genre there is (I do allot of TV and film work), so I know how to play instruments but, for certian styles of music, I go straight for the sampler and the old vinyl collection. but I had to side with Tikiaki that the type of sampling being done by Tipsy, puts them more in the electronica genre. So it can "ruffle the feathers" on us old school composers, who bust ass trying to find players, to call Tipsy exotica. So let's all stop freakin out, sip on a mai-tai or two, and everyone check out Tipsy, a killer electronica band with an exotica twist.
My rating of Tipsy, from what I heard on the website, on a scale of 1 to 10:

arangements: 9.5
recording quality: 9.8
packageing: 8.5
production: 9.0

Nuff said, lets get drunk!

Tiki Bill.