From James Skilton Sent Sat, May 30th 1998, 11:00
From James Skilton Sent Sat, May 30th 1998, 11:00
At 20:03 28/05/98 EDT, you wrote: >But do keep an eye out for the jungle duo's tour with Lee Scratch Perry and >Mad Professor (he's on the board for Perry). I would have gone if the show >was cheaper... But SHJ are pretty awful IMO. I saw them spin once for free, >and it was boring, and 68 million shades is not much to speak of. Go for the >dub, not the pseudo dub. > I'd have to agree. "The Sea Lettuce" was an excellent piece at it's time, and still sounds different today. "Lee Perry still sounds wicked too. But at the time I wasn't listening to much drum-n-bass and didn't have much to compare it to. Over the last 2 years I have been, and both "68 Million Shades" and "Busy Curious Thirsty" sound lame and derivative. The tracks are overly repetitive and also not half as clever with dynamics or the deconstruction of breaks as the stuff coming out of labels like Droppin Science, Prototype, Juice, Hard Leaders, Tech Itch, Moving Shadow, Reinforced, No U Turn, Formation, V, Urban Takeover and many more too numerous to mention. That said check out the tour for Lee Perry and Mad Professor. That sounds very promising! I've never seen either live but I can't imagine it being a non-event! factoid of the nite: In about 1986 Lee Perry made a single called "Jungle". J ^ Steady J aka James Skilton xxxxxx-x@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Autechre & SKAM discogs @ http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~sk393820 "I don' have any idea 'bout what's going on..."