From multsanta Sent Thu, Jul 9th 1998, 03:02
From multsanta Sent Thu, Jul 9th 1998, 03:02
xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Geoffrey Langham) writes: > I don't know how many diehard drill and bass fans there are >out there. i don't think i'll be the first to say that planet mu's mealtime compilation killed drill n' bass (see below), not to mention the apparant death of spymania. It was real big around here before that came out and spoiled it for everyone. IMHO, the only good sorta-drill n' bass record to come out after mealtime actually came from this side of the pond- the "attention cats" 12" on reckanklangswergue or whatever... and it's very good, as it goes back to the original wackiness that they were going for in the begining of the whole thing, rather than attempting to fill the stupid 'faster than anything breaks with no substance or purpose' mold. and Carpet Bomb deserves props for doing something innovative with drum n' bass, even if it's not of the drill type, per se. >I'm not really sure that >drill and bass took over. oh it did.. for a short while every big name artist was trying their hand at it and it spun off wack imitation labels like bovinyl. > I have a dumbass question, anyway--who are the drill and bass >artists? I can think of u-ziq and TJ and just some of RDJ album--what >else is out there that I haven't heard yet? everyone says that the first drill n' bass record was afx's hangable auto bulb, but i think that it was actually richard's remix of wagonchrist's "spotlight"... regardless don't start that thread again. for me the first true 'drill n' bass' release from one of the non-big guys (rdj,tomj,mikep,lukev) was wafta's "college street zoo" on spymania. and also the spymania allstars comp. (both of which are long oop) Sadly, it's been over a year since the last spy release (not including the squarepusher compilation on warp), which was the d.i.a.l. ep, and wasn't even drill n' bass at all (though it was very good). Paddington Breaks (former Spymania) also did an ep for ill, which was pretty good. then there is that whole Animals On Wheels/Bovinyl type people. Which is pretty bad. Bovinyl has, i think, six records to date and Animals on Wheels has done two EPs and an album on Ninja Tune, also. plus there is the horde of sub-par jenkinson type imitators like Woodenspoon, Rubber Johnny , Max Tundra and such. and there are four compilations come to mind (in order of preference): -Noodles Pt. 1: The Death Of Cool (Noodles) On Si Begg's Label, completely wacked out and insane, while some of it doesn't count as drill n' bass it's got a lot of the drill n bass type people on it. Hardy Spymania, etc. Brilliant, one of my favorite records last year (unfortunetly it's 2x12" only.. .no cd) -Trash: Industrialsamplegrouchcore (Mille Plateux) A bunch of industrial hard as nails break beats from all Brigton producers. Someone was asking for harsh idm- here's your answer. Hardy Spymania, DJ Decay (aka Cristian Vogel), MilkyBoy (Bovinyl), etc. -Spunk Jazz (ill) Rather formulatic and fitting perfectly into the drill n' bass mold, yet before the point where it's just completely boring. Features just about everyone from the scene, Animals On Wheels, both the Wafta guys working on seperate tracks, our own lovable Horse Opera, Paddington Breaks, etc. -Mealtime (Planet Mu) Yuk, the worst drill n bass release yet. Aside from an interesting new direction for AFX, a second appearance of a classic wafta track, and a few more solid tracks from Horse Opera and Plug, it's mostly boring and derivite, despite all the big names (u-ziq, jega, animals on wheels).And yet it still managed to pull off great reviews... i think i'm gonna sit down and write a book on the (brief) history of drill n bass ;-) +/-mlt http://members.xoom.com/multsanta/ [uziq/musik aus strom/karaokekalk/++]