From Chris Fahey Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 15:51
From Chris Fahey Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 15:51
> Michael Upton wrote:
>| I mean, how much drum and bass/breakbeat/big beat can you listen to
>| before it loses it's novelty?
>
>Novelty? Whether or not you mean to, you describe this kind of stuff as if
>it's a fad and like the stuff you like isn't. I'd suggest that's something
>of a bias on your part.
I knew I'd get flak for the word novelty. No, I love d&b, but I feel
like it really is a fad. In a few years, I think we'll see a lot of today's
d&b practicioners going back or moving forward to something else. Of course,
some will be making d&b decades from now too. Very few d&b practicioners I
hear seem to feel personally comfortable with the genre, emplying its motifs
clumsily on top of otherwise interesting musicianship.
>This is pop music we're talking about
agreed.
>If you are just thinking about clean synth sounds, and blatantly drum
>machine percussion sounds, I'm damn happy to think those things are dying!
Better a drum machine than a friggin sampled loop.
>Irene wrote:
>I recently lent a whack of my music to a friend who, on returning
>them to me and gratefully raving on about most of what I'd given him,
>commented specifically that Renegade SW in Dub sounded "dated".
Yeah, cuz it had no drum and bass!
And by the way, I love the Add N to X album and I think the cover is
dumb as shit and if it wasn't for the stupid ass cover I'd probably listen
to the record more often. Fortunately, I can flip the cd insert around and
viola I'm looking at their three pretty faces instead of their cheap
tired-looking misogynist theatrics (even if she was willing, it's still
misogynist).
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