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The Trap Set with Joe Wong

BNS: Fred Armisen Bonus Mini-Episode

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Comedy, Arts, Performing Arts

4.9715 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Fred and Joe pontificate over the nature of music and how it relates to cultural anthropology. Neither of them is an expert, so everything they think might be wrong. You be the judge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is a bonus outtake from Fred Armisen's episode. You can hear our full conversation

0:05.8

where Fred talks about his background in music and how he transitioned into comedy by

0:11.2

subscribing to the trap set on iTunes. Also, I think there's, I don't know the state of what Brazil is

0:18.7

like now, but I think racially too, that the fact

0:23.7

that like it really is mixed there, but in a very real way.

0:28.8

And the music sounds like that too.

0:30.2

It is a very mixed kind of music.

0:35.4

The melodies to me sound, I don't know, kind of Western. And then, uh,

0:41.4

and those beats I'm only, I can only assume are from Africa. Of course. Yeah, yeah. That's what a

0:47.3

musicologist would say. Right. But I'm, I, for me to say that, I would be just repeating what

0:53.0

other people say. Right.

0:59.3

I don't have the evidence of what beats were truly happening in Africa.

1:00.1

Right.

1:02.2

I wish I knew, but I don't know.

1:11.1

Well, lots of them are clave-based, but just different from the clave that's in Cuba or other places in the diaspora.

1:11.9

Right.

1:13.5

I mean,

1:15.1

that's an assumption,

1:15.7

but I still,

1:17.0

I don't know like,

1:19.4

if the clave is different,

1:19.9

then I'm like,

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