From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Sep 15th 1998, 03:24
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Sep 15th 1998, 03:24
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Will Samuels wrote: | I agree with what Brock said about there is more going on in the drum | n bass scene. In the past, I have always bought a hell of alot of IDM | and Detroit techno, but I buy WAY more drum n bass now. I find it kinda amusing that my friends who have been buying drum n bass for years have cut their purchasing of that kind of stuff right right down. There's a lot of talk around me, and in stuff I read, about drum n bass hitting a real creative low. Anyway, I'm not really gonna take one side or another, cos I don't like much drum n bass full stop. However, the above fits with my general observation that the focus in drum n bass has really changed somewhere along the way (the Good Looking thing, and the No U-Turn thing in pretty much the opposite direction). So a lot of those who liked whatever it was that drum n bass used to be predominantly about seem to be dumping it, and a new group of listeners are picking it up getting into the new sound. I find something about the production of recent drum n bass to be really "head ache-y". I dunno what it is? More lower mids coming through? Lots of distortion? Michael ____________________________________________ "Also, he has automatic evasion devices" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html