Bosh Jams On A Fast Break

[koganbot]

The question is what is the genre.

skyecaptain says that, while no one in Internet history has thought up an adequate generic category for whatever the hell it is that Scooter does so very well, the answer is clearly "bosh jams."

I think Scooter'd officially be called Happy Hardcore, though I'd not be the one to hold an informed opinion on the subject.

Google reveals "Toronto's Chris Bosh jams on a fast break." But it seems to me that if it's a true jam it should be a slow break, so that there can be slow bosh jams. But that doesn't seem to be the Scooter style. I suppose a slow jam can have a fast break, if they're willing to change tempo.

Comments

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I think that might be a poptimist thing. you occasionally see indie-schmindie which is more obviously dismissive, sometimes shortened to 'schmindie', but this is one of those things that everyone on the student paper I worked on used, and I don't know if we got it from the outside world, or have subsequently disseminated it there. I should google it, I suppose!

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[koganbot]

Well, I hadn't thought of "Nindie" as any more dismissive than "indie," which is plenty dismissive itself in this neck of the forest. Just thought it was "an indie" with the N carried forward.

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha well indie-schmindie can be dismissive or an affectionate acknowledgment of a guilty pleasure... I guess I read 'nindie' that way because of the way I use 'indie' most of the time!

I think its use may come from nuncle carsmile - can't remember why carsmile gets called uncle, and nuncle is I think Shakespearean?

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I also like the way 'nindie' is quite close to 'ninnie' / ninny.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

uncle --> nuncle
indie --> nindie

it is a medieval elaboration of slightly teasing affection

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think catsgomiaow was responsible for Carsmile's honorifics.

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

marnameow was involved also, but yes, it's a reversal of the moveable n, first usage may have involved an imaginary conversation along the lines of:

they are an indie band, m'lud

what is this nindie?

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I suspect this is one for atommickbrane really, but I think it means indie, but the indie we secretly love (whilst at the same time rubbishing all other rubbish indie) - and also a state of loving the indie we secretly love i.e. it's (self) descriptive of a person as much as a record. Any implied perjorative is therefore usually affectionate or in jest.

Also, I've seen it more usually applied to indie pop (esp. twee) than indie rock.

Re: Okay, what about Nindie

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Or what Dr T just said.