Hip-hop music blended with such styles as harsh noise, industrial and even shoegaze. Public Enemy and their production team Bomb Squad pioneered a style of loud, distorted hip-hop, while The Beatnigs were arguably the first industrial hip-hop group. Contemporary noise-hop artists include dälek, techno animal, chaos royale and food for animals to name a few.
Interesting factoids:
Noise - Calling some signal or sound noise is often a subjective distinction. One person’s maximum-volume music listening pleasure might be another’s unbearable noise.
An annoying background hiss interfering with short-wave radio broadcasts was found to be due to extra-terrestrial, indeed cosmic, processes; listening to this “noise” to the exclusion of all other signals with ever more sensitive antennas and receivers is now the science of radio astronomy. Radio astronomers are still plagued by noise in their signals—but now it is thermal noise generated in their equipment interfering with wanted signals from the cosmos.
Hop - To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
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