David Dodd writes:
quoted 9 lines Looking at jungle in terms of musical progression, the junglists seem to
>Looking at jungle in terms of musical progression, the junglists seem to
>be developing some really interesting ways to employ samplers. On the
>best stuff they have gotten out of the whole problem of having a monotonous
>drum thud marking the time. Instead, they loop various bass lines and
>sound effects to keep the time and use the drum samples more as a lead
>instrument, and in a fairly non-repetitive way. Of course, I'm talking
>about the best (IMHO) stuff; jungle always runs the risk of degenerating
>into noisy sound-effects records, or worse yet, into extremely fast rap
>music.
Yeah, jungle is like any music style. Some good stuff and a lot of
generic stuff. The best use of drum samples I've heard in a while
can be found on the B-side of "Deeper Life" by Chimera (Back2Basics).
"Jacob's Ladder" is the track. Mad, mad drums. Absolutely brilliant.
My vote for Ambient Jungle Track of the Year is "The Deep" by Koda.
Just buy the 12" if you see it.
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