From Will Samuels Sent Wed, Sep 16th 1998, 01:26
From Will Samuels Sent Wed, Sep 16th 1998, 01:26
--eric <xxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote: > down. There's a lot of talk around me, and in stuff > I read, about drum n bass hitting a real creative > low. I would suggest that you find out for yourself, instead of just reading. If I bought 1/10 of everything that I read was great...I would be stuck with alot of mediocre music. > there's so much being released right now that soon > enough someone's going to win a grammy and the > acceptablility bar will be raised back up. drum and bass producers are simplifying things for the > dancefloor which has a side effect of giving confidence to producers who wouldn't have been able to > compete in the days of fux0red breaks. i think some people see the tons of 12 coming out every week > as evidence of a creative explosion, while others see that expansion as milking it. It has always been my belief that 90% of ANY genre will be mediocre or crap. The number of releases each week is irrelevant. There is a lot of crap drum n bass out there. Alot of people cut n paste tracks together and put it out. That is not the kind of drum n bass that I was giving props to. If you go out and listen to labels like Prototype, Virus, Moving Shadow, 31, Ram, and lots of other labels. I am sure that you will some pretty amazing stuff. Just about everything that Ed Rush and Optical has put out lately has almost given chills it was so cool. The basslines are always sick. If you are interested in hearing some real audio samples go to the website "A Place To Be" or do a websearch for Optical and Matrix. And that's only a start. Oh and go gives a shite about Grammies? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com