On Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:02:33 -0700 Greg Earle wrote,
quoted 4 lines music and wasn't doing Bass Kittens in 1989? I guess 3 Phase's "Der Klang> 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?
N O F U C K I N G W A Y ! (shouting and surprise intentional!)
I just can't believe this! Wild, wild stuff, I did not know this! I used
to hear G.L. tracks all the time on the Pain Bank in Tucson. I never ever
would have made the connection... thanks for the info.
And your point is totally valid. What defines a bandwagon jumper is not
whether or not an artist experiments with knowledge gained through
listening to new music, but how and _why_ they incorporate new ways of
looking at music into their _own_ style. If all you do is _copy_ then
you're a jumper, but if you add to the genre by adding your own unique
voice, then you're just doing what musicians have _always_ done. The
first producers of d 'n' b could be said to be breakbeat jumpers,
because they lift their beats from others, but the point is what
they've added to the beats...
I always think of science and math when I contemplate this phenomena: once
a way of doing things (an algorithm) is discovered, other scientists use
this information to further their research in ways not dreamt up by the
original discoverer. Once a way of doing things becomes public knowledge
(it would have been pretty hard to d 'n' b before computer sequencers and
samplers) it is up to artists to see how far they can push the art in new
directions. This is generally considered to be a good thing, but I could
be wrong...
--
David "a former industrialist" Jones
onnow: Psychophysicist playing on "Discrete music" on KPFA - new project
between Adi Newton and A.M. McKenzie on Side Effects... (how's that for
industrial references?)