quoted 7 lines Everything but the Girl stopped by the local Drum and Bass/Dub night at the> Everything but the Girl stopped by the local Drum and Bass/Dub night at the
> Empty Bottle here in Chicago. After hanging at the bar for awhile Ben took
> the stage and spun a mix of upbeat to jazzy stuff. His tune selection was
> alright but the mixing skills were passable. No huge screw-up but the mixes
> tended to be fast cuts.
>
> What do you expect from a bandwagon-jumper?
That's a gross thing to say.
Some 19 year old in England can say "Drum n' Bass - now *that's* what I want
to do", get some gear together, get a record out, and everything's copacetic.
But heaven forbid if two 30-somethings say "Drum n' Bass - now *that's* what
we want to do now, because we love it" and put a Dn'B record out, well then,
they're "bandwagon-jumpers" because they actually had previous records out
that weren't in that style.
I guess Jon Drukman is a "bandwagon-jumper" because he used to make Industrial
music and wasn't doing Bass Kittens in 1989? I guess 3 Phase's "Der Klang
Der Familie" isn't a seminal Techno record because, after all, they were just
former Industrialites (Gerechtigkeits Liga) who became "bandwagon-jumpers"
in 1991/92? I suppose since my wife had Industrial records out she'll be
viewed as a "bandwagon-jumper" when her Techno material gets out? Oh, then
of course there's that Mike Paradinas character; since his next album is
supposedly Jungle then there's another "bandwagon-jumper" right there ...
Need I say more?
- Greg