I listened to some of “Last Time” by woulg, and I honestly don’t know what I’d call it. I enjoyed some of it though.
A lot of tracks come to mind when I hear the term “glitch hop,” but I don’t want to fill this place up with links to tracks (yet), so I’ll just post a link to one of my favorite tracks that I’d feel comfortable calling “glitch hop”:
According to spotify playlists, it’s just EDM with loads of chiptune elements
I have a hard time with genres like these, because I usually consider glitch hop to be ‘beats (aka hip-hop oriented beats sans vocals) and glitch elements’, but the real-world definition / interpretation couldn’t be further from the way I’ve always envisioned it.
To me, it’s whatever the fuck I’ve been cooking up over the past few months but I’m obviously off track
I think what most people who are talking about ‘glitch hop’ usually mean is stuff that sounds like Tipper kinda. A lot of people use it to describe anything that’s 3/4 tempo dubstep.
The name doesn’t really make sense imo for that kinda stuff but who cares. Lots of names don’t make sense.
It is slightly annoying though when saying you like ‘glitch’ music someone thinks you’re just shortening ‘glitch hop’, kinda like how some people think ‘dub’ is short for ‘dubstep’ lol…
If genre names actually made sense though, @itsthebadluck 's example would definitely qualify as glitch hop
yeah that’s understandable, it’s the kind of things that I can say where you need to have the exact same opinions as I do to understand what I’m talking about. This track by edIT was an IDM classic, and I listened to this album a lot at the time, along with other idm/glitch hop artists such as prefuse73 or tipper. Then edIT formed a group with three other glitch hop artists and they called themselves “the glitch mob”. It was fun but ultimately very dull arena music with two ideas per track at best. They started to dress hype and photograph themselves in neon lights. I just couldn’t make sense of the aesthetic switch. Then came brostep and the EDM years and it all got sucked into this whirlpool of shit.
Then admitedly glitch hop was always associated with loud PAs, big bass and fat sound design. But I guess when I first heard it, what I was really looking for was experimental hiphop and I thought it was going for something like that.
haha yeah, actually to me glitch hop started as just a style of IDM