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Glitch Mob Street Warfare The Glitch Mob is notorious for its live shows— they remix on the fly and seamlessly finish each others’ basslines. Here, the crew takes it up a notch by setting up speakers and a generator renegade-style in the crowded streets of San Francisco for full-scale guerilla beat warfare on the public. What they weren’t expecting was that San Franciscans prove themselves up to the attack—in a way that only San Franciscans can.

Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The origins of the glitch aesthetic can be traced back to Luigi Russolo’s Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises, the basis of noise music. In a Computer Music Journal article published in 2000, composer and writer Kim Cascone used the term post-digital to describe various experimentations associated with the glitch aesthetic. Glitch is characterized by a preoccupation with the sonic artifacts that can result from malfunctioning digital technology, such as those produced by bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, CD skipping, and digital distortion.[2] Cascone considers glitch to be a sub-genre of electronica. [wiki]

The Glitch Mob’s sound, as well output from other producers loosely associated with the group like Tipper, Bassnectar, and Flying Lotus, is spreading like wildfire throughout the electronic music world. It is difficult to corral the Mob’s style into one genre as it contains influences from many different types of music. Elements of hip-hop, dubstep, IDM, and heavy metal all manage to find a place in the group’s sound spectrum. The end result is a sound that represents a meeting point between the IDM-influenced breakbeats that emerged from the Burning Man scene and the new instrumental hip-hop that is coming out of Los Angeles.    [metrowise.com]