From Jon Drukman Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 00:54
From Jon Drukman Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 00:54
Christopher Fahey wrote: > > Over the past few days I've been listening to a lot of circa 1991-92 > electronica/IDM (Old Orb, Seefeel, Renegade Soundwave, SAW2, Artificial > Intelligence, old FSOL, etc) and I thought to myself that almost none of > this fantastic music used any drum-n-bass gestures at all, and none involved > anything like *gag* big beat. i totally agree. you do realize this makes us sound like grumpy old men, don't you? well, fuck it. i like it. although the orb and rsw and old fsol all use lotsa big funky drum loops, so i'm not sure what you're getting at with the big beat comment. other than that the "new school" big beat folk don't show nearly as much creativity in general as the originators. > I thought also that this stuff holds up *extremely* well over time me too. RSW "in dub" still sounds light years ahead of the pack. Jon Drukman xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Plan: Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.