From James Skilton Sent Thu, Jan 1st 1998, 19:59
From James Skilton Sent Thu, Jan 1st 1998, 19:59
Just thought I'd put my view on this one. Looking at LFO's "LFO" single rather than the album as a whole, I'd say this track was HUGELY influential. It's use of Sub-Bass was unprecedented and sparked a wave of imitation tracks. Along with a very small number of other tracks (Unique 3's "The Theme", Sweet Exorcist's "Testone" and a handful of others), a blueprint was formed for a brief phase of "bass, breaks and bleeps" tracks on the british rave scene, which was just about into it's third year at the time (1990, the third summer of love). (Clearly LFO dod not contribute to the "breaks" part of this pattern) This rapidly evolved into the early hardcore stuff of 1991 from which the entire Jungle/Drum-n-bass and happy hardcore schenes can be traced. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that LFO caused drum-n-bass to be the way it is, but the use of sub-bass in this way was not known in house/techno at the time, and became de rigeur in hardcore tracks, and of course part of the genetic make-up of d+b. I wouldn't rate the rest of the album as anywhere near so influential - it just dd not go mainstream like the single. But it's still a classic, imo. laterz, J ^ Steady J aka James Skilton xxxxxx-x@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Autechre & SKAM discogs @ http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~sk393820 "I don' have any idea 'bout what's going on..."