From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Nov 12th 1998, 16:35
From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Nov 12th 1998, 16:35
One of my buddies here in Iowa City is a D&B DJ, so what I hear is skewed by the stuff he's buying. But it seems to me that a lot of the new D&B stuff is less inventive rhythmically than the old stuff. In particular the early moving shadow and dego stuff seems to be willing to really go hectic on the breaks in a way that the more modern stuff wont. In that respect, people like squarepusher are almost throwbacks in that they'll go nuts cutting up beats -- the mainstream D&B guys seem to really like a straight 2step beat and wobbly bassline. The jump-up and techstep stuff works as dance music but is less successful as listening music. In my own tracks, the DJ's always say "yeah, like that old school break." when it's not 'old school' at all -- I just like to mix things up on the beats, something that's out of fashion these days. On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Burk wrote: > A number of favorite titles in my record collection are from the early > breakbeat/hardcore era including labels like Chill, Kickin' and Moving > Shadow. I will include some artist info (doing it from memory). >