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Hey Tim Finney,
In the yr streetpress singles review I'd been meaning to ask you
about the pop-drum&bass movement that you referred to - other than
Puretone (or Josh Abraham, as we know him by down south), what's the
other evidence?
― Michael Dieter, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
*waits for the onslaught of pompous blog fags who've
listened to 4 d&b tunes this decade to start making massive
sweeping condemnations of a genre they have almost no
knowledge about*
It's at least 5!
Michael - check the new version of Origin Unknown's "Truly One"
and Peshay's "U Got Me Burnin", and the conglomeration of
vaguely pop-ish singles over the last year (Uncut - Midnight; Andy
C & Shimon - Bodyrock; others I can't summon up the memory of
on the spot). It's more a relative thing than a full-on pop-
reversion.
― Tim, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
haha big dapper inna ned raggett-stylee.
keith are you looking for a full-on retrospective? or just recent
stuff? (apologies if this was made clear in yr question, it's still
early for me.)
― jess, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Alive and thriving, I think. There have been reports of its death for
years, but good records keep coming out in large numbers. For me, D&B
is probably second only to hip hop if I were to count the number of
tunes I've loved by genre in recent years. There are probably more
strong albums nowadays than there were in the mid-'90s, if that is
any criterion. Best D&B album ever was DJ Teebee's Through The Eyes
Of A Scorpion, from 2001. The best new tune I've heard lately is
Fierce and Bad Company's (I dunno how to do their weird symbol, and
you know I'm not talking about Rogers and Ralphs and whoever)
Innocence. There are strong and interesting side areas like the
poppier stuff Tim mentions; the more soulful material - I think the
likes of Addiction and Carlito will be big names soon; and the
garagey end, where the best exponent is Zinc. The new Polar stuff
sounds great (Norway is on top form!), and I bought the new Lemon D &
Dillinja album today, though I haven't had the chance to listen to it
yet.
― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Particularly: what directions has it gone in since neurofunk, and
what tracks are the very best examples of these directions?
― Keith McD, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I went to a jungle night last friday at the End and it was ace - lots
of good darkside stuff, real blast from the past. DJ Trace played,
and even dropped Mutant Revisited!
― Robin, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The biggest problem I find with drum and bass is that the good stuff
is not easy to find for a few reasons.
1. More than any other genre of mix music, there seems to be an
absolute premium on many dnb tunes being kept to white label or
limited issue on singles.
2. Many dnb artists don't seem to translate to a albums quite as
well. Many seem to get into other genres and styles and honestly
that music doesn't work as well as what they do best, this makes
their full lengths spotty.
3. At least living in the US, alot of the British dnb CDs are hard
as hell to find and when you do find them, they are freakin way
expensive. The indies that do this music just don't seem to have as
good distribution as some of the other labels.
4. Like hiphop, dnb suffers from production cloning. Someone comes
up with an interesting style, within a few months there are everyone
plays it out by basically copying what has been done, weakening what
made the originals good.
At least this is what I have noticed being interested in this music,
living in the middle of nowhere in the USA.
― earlnash, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link