Seems to me like a lot of the people making this 'two step' stuff don't
even have a grasp on where things originally started - funky breaks,
chopped up into your own original rhythms. Drum and bass seems to be
getting more and more formularised - especially as you can buy your own
ready cut up breaks on sample CDs.
quoted 24 lines Now days it would be more likely that they'd strip away all the> >Now days it would be more likely that they'd strip away all the
> breaks >and just use that "two-step" rhythm
> >
> >boom paf boom paf
> >
> >ad infinitum. Something about that bugs me far more than a relatively
> >unobtrusive "boom" on every beat in a techno / house /whatever tune.
> I
> >mean, the above _can_ be cool, but it's soooo played out. It's more
> of >a cliche than >the old amen break, because at least people cut the
> >rhythm of that one up sometimes.
>
> a friend and i were just talking about the old two-stepper. funny how
> alex reece was universally dismissed for overusing this break, but now
> it's the most popular break around... you've even got your simon
> reynoldses writing articles about how revolutionary it is. neurofunk
> anyone?....
>
> imho it's sucking the innovation right out of the music. then again
> "funktion" by ed rush and optical _does_ uses it to splendid effect...
>
>
> r.
>