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me and mr. jones
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Date:
Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:57:01 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
(idm) Re: Fads'n'bass [was : Tree tings]
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quoted 6 lines 1. Raygun has an article on drum and bass stuff, and if you can hack>1. Raygun has an article on drum and bass stuff, and if you can hack > the annoying Art-Student-On-Shrooms-With-One-Missing-Contact-Lens > layout you can read some interesting chatting with Tom J Sqrpshr, > photek and big daddy luke vibert (whose "redone" mixes are eating > my brain). pretty cool, but don't bother buying the magazine - > just stand in barnes and noble reading it and looking hip.
Does all of this clammoring by the press about drum'n'bass remind anyone here of the similar silliness what occurred during the whole Trip-Hop/Tricky/ Massive Attack/Portishead business two summers ago? I can't begin to count how many d+b articles I've read in the past months [SPIN having the worst 'intro to techno' article i've ever read]. Trip-hop/downtempo in pop music bever really became the Next Big Thing that magazine editors had wanted, and I doubt techno/d+b will be either. Do you want to know why? THERE IS NO LONGER HOUSE MUSIC ON MTV'S HOUSE OF STYLE!!! Can you believe it? I haven't seen an installment for a few months, but I did catch the latest one Saturday. And they played nothing but rock! No Deee-Lite. No Inner City! Not even Robert Miles! (Fascinating.) Those who quiver about MTV's role in electronic music should use the above as a reason not to worry. Time for bed. .grant.h.horne .http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~ghhorne/