From Sham Beam Sent Fri, Feb 27th 2015, 05:40
From Sham Beam Sent Fri, Feb 27th 2015, 05:40
I thought the "drill" was added as it kind of describes how people dance to dnb at those tempos. On 2/27/2015 2:44 PM, c j wrote: > So I guess that is to say...I know of the when the term was first > applied, and to whom...but I don't actually know the answer to your > question :| > > I typically feel it was just someone taking the piss out of genre titles... > > ...but given that a lot of drill n' bass artists had backgrounds in > jungle, and jungle became drum n' bass, I can see these weird techno > proto-junglists evolving their own music into it's own drum n' bass > derivative, "drill n' bass". I can only neckbeardedly speculate and > propose that drills are oft associated not just for their annoying > sound, but their propensity and function to "wind up", much in the way > intense beat repeating and programming does in drill n' bass. Well, my > mind makes that fundamental connection...but would I have called it > drill n' bass at the time? Had I been one of the purveyors? I don't > think so, so I can't say where the "drill" part really comes from. > > "23 laughing foxes serenading lobsters" - cody > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: RE: IDM List archives > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:29:46 -0700 > > common knowledge (?), but Plug's Drum and Bass for Papa EP is typically > considered the first "drill n' bass" album. As to whether or not the > term originated around this time/coincided specifically with this > release, or was applied at a later date to that album and subsequent > artists, I do not know. > > "23 laughing foxes serenading lobsters" - cody > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:55:28 -0500 > Subject: IDM List archives > From: xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > > Hello list, > > I'm trying to access to old IDM List archives on > http://web.archive.org/, but only some of the topics will open. > > Do you know where we can browse the entire archives ? If its not done > yet, I really think that having a dump somewhere would be great for > science :) > As an example, I'm trying to find when the first(s) occurence(s) of > drill and drill'n'bass appeared. > > I can reach a 1997 topic by Styrolene VaT > http://web.archive.org/web/20071118222100/http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/1997/01/442429/ > > But i can not read most of the post that could contain some uses of the > word or expression before or after this date. > > I also found topics with the names "anti-drills" and "drills", later in > 1997, but could not read what is inside :( > > Also, if you have any other information/source from inside or outside > the IDM List about the word "drill" from the drill'n'bass, feel free to > message me :) > > A. Papavassiliou -- Sham Beam