>For example:
>
>https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/chris-watson-el-tren-fantasma
>(you can hear on the fourth segment that he's actually edited
>the music into a rhythm.

or edited the random sounds into music?

It's not clear to me that it's edited though ... lots of rhythms come out of machines (like trains). I've beatboxed along to our deskjet printer plenty of times. Poorly, of course.

>Combined with Lomax type vocals (but not sampled, just
>recorded primitively).
>
>Here's an example of something that approaches what I'm
>talking about, but doesn't quite work, although I still find
>it enjoyable (while others find it an embarrassing mess):
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hyhdBiIbMY

I can see what you mean by the primitive recording and can understand why it appeals to you. WEB didn't do much for me though.

>The link you had kind of has the opposite effect of what I'm
>looking for. They're taking field recordings and dragging them
>into the modern age, where I want the modern stuff (rapping)
>dragged back into the field recording age.

hmmm... but the rapping WAS the field recording there. Makes a weird juxtaposition, but I wasn't trying to muddy the waters.

There are several acts that have tried to mix the very old/rootsy with the new, but it's always been remixing old instrumental and vocal stuff with 'beats' (Charlie Chamberlain, Tangle Eye) so yeah, more or less similar to what I posted above from Clothesline Revival.

>This is also a recent example of something that approaches
>what I'm thinking of, too. I'm not necessarily looking for
>something this absolutely stripped down and real time, but I
>like the philosophy of it, and the fact that it's a skilled
>rapper doing it.
>
>http://alpokodon.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-know

Offc mgr in the room right now... will listen later.