From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Jun 29th 1999, 21:48
I think the problem here is the lack of differentiation between having a hip-hop influence and wearing it on your sleeve. You can listen and take notice of some of the textures created by hip-hop's arrangements and put them in your work, and this is not limited to putting BUM BUM A-CHUKK beats under everything. I like BUM BUM A-CHUKK, it's hip-hop's easiest identifiable trait, but there are lots of others that people have learned from that I think some are ignoring. So in summary: Hip Hop FEEL and Hip Hop INFLUENCE are not the same thing. I think this topic's bus is here. Tom