quoted 2 lines Actually, I find it much easier to stand a whole night of good varied
> Actually, I find it much easier to stand a whole night of good varied
> breakbeat than 8 hours of one pounding kick drum.
Agreed, it's good to have some intricate and mutating breakbeats as a
diversion/alternative to the 4/4 kick, but I wouldn't want to have breakbeats
*all night* - there's loads and loads of good house and techno which is much
easier to dance to...
quoted 1 line Jungle is not meant to be listening music.
> Jungle is not meant to be listening music.
You can't generalise all jungle like this. There's loads of jungle which is
made to be listened to, or chill out to. Also, a lot of the jungle which *is*
danced to stands up better than 'dance-oriented' techno for home listening,
mainly because of the constant variation, and (sorry) intelligence in the drum
programming...
quoted 3 lines The only place where it does itself justice is on the dancefloor, assisted by
> The only place where it does itself justice is on the dancefloor, assisted by
> a huge sound system. Anywhere else it just falls flat.
> - chris@minsk.docs.uu.se <http://www.update.uu.se/~chris/>
I definitely disagree. I've got so many jungle records which I'd rather
listen to properly than dance to. Lots of jungle *is* made for the dancefloor,
but there is a lot of range in the genre. I wouldn't say that jungle as a whole
is any more 'dancefloor-oriented' than techno as a whole...
see ya
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tom churchill e-mail: tom@chrchfam.demon.co.uk
electronic musician/dj
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