From Esa J. Ruoho Sent Fri, Sep 19th 2014, 13:40
From Esa J. Ruoho Sent Fri, Sep 19th 2014, 13:40
Guy has done great interviews Sent from some iDevice. Written by Esa. > On 19 Sep 2014, at 15:58, Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >=20 > "I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, because the= people making it weren't musicians. The best artists are people who don't c= onsider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most prete= ntious and annoying. [laughs] They've got their priorities wrong. They're ju= st doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it. And a lot o= f jungle people were actually car mechanics and painter-and-decorator types,= like, pretty hardcore blokes. I wouldn't want to get into a fight with them= . I know a few people who were like that, and I don't think that really exis= ts any more. Maybe those sort of non-musician types do some dubstep stuff, o= r grime. But it didn't exist in jungle for long. There was only a couple of y= ears where people didn't know what they were doing, and you got all these sa= mples that are just totally not related in pitch. I really hunt down those r= ecords. They've got this ridiculous mishmash of things that totally don't go= with each other at all. Obviously, after they've done it for a couple of ye= ars they learn how to make chords and stuff, and it's not so interesting now= ." >=20 > heh, i totally loved that bit, he really nailed it for me... >=20 > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer