quoted 1 line jungle was irrelevant after 95?
> jungle was irrelevant after 95?
Not at all, but it definitely started going downhill around then. Remember
techstep? That was early '96, and a better indication of a scene at crisis
point could hardly be imagined (though it did produce some awesome
records). By '97 the scene was pretty much washed up as a cultural force -
it had become another one of those small-scale purist musics, a bit like
IDM, which periodically produce good records but have very little influence
on wider cultural formations, and which never seem to change very much.
This is in marked contrast to the incredible liveliness of 2-step, which
throws up a new mutation every other week.
quoted 3 lines 2 step (or UK garage) is pretty much an evolution of
> 2 step (or UK garage) is pretty much an evolution of
> speed garage (which had more of a 95 jungle sound, even using the same
> breaks).
The current thinking is that speed garage was a 'false start' for 2-step,
which fits in with what you're saying. The problem with claiming speed
garage as a kind of ur-2-step, though, is that it ignores the very
significant mutations that have occurred in the intervening period. Speed
garage was 4/4 with added breakbeats, but 2-step is neither 4/4 nor
breakbeat. Instead it maps the techniques of re-encoding breakbeats that
were developed by junglists onto the kind of instrumentation previously
used by garage producers to construct 4/4 rhythms...a 'phase change' in
methodology analogous to the changing of state in heated liquids (i.e. when
they turn to gas).
Incidentally, for anyone who's interested, I've posted a set of 2-step
samples at
http://www.geocities.com/qubit_records. I also seriously
recommend Simon Reynolds' article 'Feminine Pressure' at
http://members.aol.com/blissout/2step.htm.
Gareth
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Gareth Metford (Nonlinear / Qubit Records)
Email: gmetford@qubit.demon.co.uk
Nonlinear website:
http://www.qubit.demon.co.uk/nonlinear
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