(idm) Re: Panacea?

From matthew d salcido
Sent Sat, Jun 19th 1999, 02:29

 the only panacea ive heard is the one with the destroyed police car on
the cover (twisted designs? cant remember...) anyway this one is very
good. it seems like there was a lot of good jungle coming out a few years
ago, but now i dont know what happened...  everything sounds weak and
cliche...  if you do like jungle tho, you should check out UFO! 's new
one on the thermal label (thermal 002)  its the first innovative jungle
ive heard in a long time!  its got some amazing bass...

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:14:43 -0700 Brock Suter <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
writes:
>
>Tomas Jirku wrote:
>> 
>> Moonlight wrote:
>> >
>> > >Panacea - Low Profile Darkness
>> >
>> > What are these guys like?  I just realized the other day that 
>these guys
>> > did the title track of "Synthetic Fury" with DJ Spooky.  That 
>song's real
>> > heavy drum and bass, but not really drillish, right?  Panacea like 
>that
>> > regularly?
>> 
>> one guy, (really)hardcore drum'n'bass. no avantgarde, beat cut-up
>> trickery like drill'n'bass stuff, but really nice beat sequencing
>> none-the-less. he's got the best grasp of the relationship between 
>the
>> drum and the bass of any d'n'b artist out there. most other d'n'b
>> allstars can be compared to a bad audio system: all bass and high 
>levels
>> with weak mids that don't support and connect them. by that i mean:
>> others sound like they whip up the beat sequencing and the basslines 
>on
>> separate continents. anyhow, he's recently doing alot more 
>downtempo,
>> hard acid stuff.
>> any other panacea fans out there? or am i singing unheard praises?
>> 
>> what's a panacea?
>
>'The cure'.
>
>I'm a BIG panacea fan myself.  I've had some pretty interesting
>conversations about him with lots of the top jungle producers in the 
>UK,
>all of which think his music is absolute shit.
>
>Some of the funniest were from nico, whom panacea sampled aprox 85
>percent of the sounds for his 'low profile darkness' LP from (the rest
>being from ae and a few other sources).  Nico actually went into force
>inc in germany (with one of the makai guys, who are all scared of the
>force inc family) and asked them what the fuck was up with this 
>panacea
>guy sampling all his records.  They ended up giving him a remix to do 
>of
>mike inc's 'love inc', which although he (and ed rush) did it, they
>weren't happy with, pulled all the mike inc samples out and turned it
>into the title track off the torque lp.
>
>Ooops, sorry for getting off the topic...
>
>Anyway, I haven't been entirely happy with the direction panacea has
>been going lately, mainly due to his overuse (just like everyone else)
>of 'two step' beats.  Also, his slower stuff started out pretty good
>(check the tracks on the electric ladyland comps) but he seams to have
>petered out a bit.
>
>The last really good thing I remember hearing from him was the single 
>on
>chrome with the makai rmx on the flip.  Nice one, lots of good old 
>rave
>noises!  :-)
>
>brockout.

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