Experiential Microgenres: Night Bus, Late-Night Grocery Run, & Pink Motel (Episode 84)

Night Bus, Late Night Grocery Run, & Pink Motel are microgenres
that represent their own experiential sound, where the songs are
held together by the atmospheres they invoke rather than a specific
set of rules or location in time and space. The music, primarily
captured on singles, was created by private press or no name labels
with dreams of making it big or at least making a few bucks. The
mood of these micro-genres provides a faded snapshot of the 1980s
with a depraved combination of the excess and frivolity of popular
styles of the time: RnB, disco, funk, AOR, and synthpop. Our
episode today is being co-hosted by two cosmonauts of musical
taxonomy, Candace and Micah, who launch themselves into the darkest
recesses of the musical spectrum and bring back the fragments of
unremembered sounds out of the oblivion. They explore musical
trends that are mostly forgotten or intentionally pushed away from
mass society for its own protection. They have worked diligently to
find homes for the “square peg” music that certainly exists, but
is, as of yet, unrecognized as a cohesive micro-genre. Music that
is little known outside of the basement dwelling record trolls
plastered to their discogs, mixclouds, and youtubes.  Listen
to Micah's show on WFMU, Music of Mind Control Archives for WFMU
shows hosted by Micah & Candace: Night Bus & Low Rent
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