Caped Crusader writes:
quoted 8 lines jon writes:>jon writes:
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>this is a ridiculous relativistic pre-judgement. i'm not a big orbital fan,
>but seeing as they've never done a breakbeat track yet, how can you say that
>"there are slews of breakbeat artists who are a lot better?"
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>jon, from some of your IDM times i'd say you are a huge orbital fan...
>or at least it seems that way...
Hahaha! Yeah, and I'm a huge William Orbit fan. :-)
quoted 2 lines i'm still trying to figure out why when a brilliant album comes out it gets>i'm still trying to figure out why when a brilliant album comes out it gets
>no coverage at all if it has breaks. well. go figure.
Well, how many breakbeat artists make albums? Not many... Compared to how
many ambient albums gets released every week, the jungle album output is
NULL and void. As for breakbeat's bad reputation, Suburban Base are partly
to blame. "Sesame's Treet" was just about the silliest song in music history
and it's taken them two (three? - I can't remember) years to re-gain any
respect, which is of course sad, seeing that they have been releasing top
quality records for a long time now.
Robert writes:
quoted 2 lines Ambience mainstream? That's the wackiest statement I've ever heard. How>Ambience mainstream? That's the wackiest statement I've ever heard. How
>many labels do ambient? Five, maybe six?
Only five labels in the world release ambient? Good joke. There are two
labels in Sweden (my homecountry) alone, releasing ambient records only
(one is called Cascade and is worth checking out). There are interviews
with ambient artists every week in the music press, hardly any at all with
jungle artists. Ambient may not be mainstream but it's a hell lot less
underground that breakbeat (no, it's not a competition, I know).
- chris@minsk.docs.uu.se