From sun rob and his arkestra Sent Sat, Jun 27th 1998, 06:40
From sun rob and his arkestra Sent Sat, Jun 27th 1998, 06:40
> I mean, how much drum and bass/breakbeat/big beat can you listen to > before it loses it's novelty? And who's doing music in the tradition the not much. well, breakbeat, plenty. i thin afrika bambattaa will hold up in another ten years. most drum and bass, no. bits and pieces? yes. the influence of it? yes. big beat, no. the only record worth listening to so far is the chem's, and that record is good because it plunders shamelessly from the best traditions of rock and old skool hip hop, while all the other big beat just sounds downloaded from them. > too). What happened to melodic, dancy, trippy dub? Beat-oriented > ambient? It's all a wash of plinkityplinkitychikachikaboom 180+ bpm > nowadays. orbital's still got it. boards of canada has that 'will be a classic' feel to it too. luke vibert dips into all the abovementioned worlds. catching up, rob