From WARD Giles Sent Wed, Jul 8th 1998, 10:08
From WARD Giles Sent Wed, Jul 8th 1998, 10:08
Seems to me like a lot of the people making this 'two step' stuff don't even have a grasp on where things originally started - funky breaks, chopped up into your own original rhythms. Drum and bass seems to be getting more and more formularised - especially as you can buy your own ready cut up breaks on sample CDs. > >Now days it would be more likely that they'd strip away all the > breaks >and just use that "two-step" rhythm > > > >boom paf boom paf > > > >ad infinitum. Something about that bugs me far more than a relatively > >unobtrusive "boom" on every beat in a techno / house /whatever tune. > I > >mean, the above _can_ be cool, but it's soooo played out. It's more > of >a cliche than >the old amen break, because at least people cut the > >rhythm of that one up sometimes. > > a friend and i were just talking about the old two-stepper. funny how > alex reece was universally dismissed for overusing this break, but now > it's the most popular break around... you've even got your simon > reynoldses writing articles about how revolutionary it is. neurofunk > anyone?.... > > imho it's sucking the innovation right out of the music. then again > "funktion" by ed rush and optical _does_ uses it to splendid effect... > > > r. >