From GamePrg. Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 20:03
On Friday, 10-Jul-98, Simon Walley wrote [about (idm) Re: idm-digest V2 #236]: >Drill'n'bass isn't a sustaining genre - it's a novelty IMO. The >interesting stuff will happen when the techniques and ethos (basically >fuck around with as much of the break and sounds as possible) >cross-breeds into other stuff. This is happening already - a good >example IMO is that Ae Certificate 18 remix. In a way that's true. In one of my tracks I have not messed with breaks, but I've taken several layers of drumsounds that basically sound like nonsense by themselves, but make up a wicked groove when layered on top of each other, I dunno if anyone would call it drill'n'bass (I don't). >Been reading a bit too much _Solaris_? huh? what's that :D >The new stuff sounds pretty organic to me - still with that Ae coldness >and kind of clinical outlook but with the sounds they're using. Actually yes, cichlisuite is damn organic. but I meant you know, how they are usually making things that make "the sounds of machines our parents used." ;) __ __\ \ / /_\ \ 1cQ<->uIN \_____/ 1.3777993 "..in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's the point?" - James Cameron