At 06:26 PM 3/25/00 -0600, you wrote:
quoted 27 lines 2-step garage is the most potent form of underground dance music to have>2-step garage is the most potent form of underground dance music to have
>developed in the UK since jungle in 1993-94. Mixing elements of US garage
>and R&B with ultra-complex drum programming and foundation-shaking
>sub-bass, this is house music made by and for a generation which had its
>musical synapses rewired by drum & bass. Despite achieving mainstream
>chart success in the UK with records like Artful Dodger's 'Rewind', 2-step
>has nonetheless remained a comparatively localised scene, confined to
>London and a few other major urban centres. It has not yet achieved the
>critical mass which enabled jungle to break out onto the world stage.
>While it is debatable whether - in any case - this would be a desirable
>outcome (jungle's post-1995 plunge into nihilism and irrelevance being one
>of the more depressing cultural events of recent years), we at Qubit
>Records are convinced that 2-step deserves more widespread exposure, both
>within the UK and internationally, than it at present receives. We also
>believe that, in the same way drum & bass forced every forward-thinking
>recording artist to rethink the way they made music, the manifold
>innovations of 2-step demand a coherent response from the wider electronic
>music community.
>
>***
>
>Oh spare me. Could this be perhaps instead because 2-step garage is the
>most tedious thing since... 2-step jungle? Because it takes the bad
>elements of most techno genres and mixes them together? Because it makes
>me actively wish I were listening to generihouse?
>
>2-step garage is the hip house of the post 90s.
he he. . .andrew, you ever-reliable grump :P the thing about 2-step is
that, like everything else, 90% of it is crap. as with any other truly
"underground" music (debatable though as that term is) you gotta look past
the lame releases to the ones that really push and have some fun with the
promising rhythms and such that i've heard exploited well. admittedly i've
never found any of the good stuff, but i've heard stuff that i really liked
on juno and the odd set in pirate RA style. curly here in austin and one
or two other djs have started bringing it a little lately.
of course, turning the critical eye inward i must say that i got into
2-step garage about the time i stopped following, erm, 2-step drum and
bass. so, yeah, out-of-the-fryingpan, ymmv and all that :)
i've always wondered what say, Sutekh, Atom Heart or some of the Cologne
guys exploring the 2-tep thing might sound like. . .part of me yearns to
see the weirdbeard/idm/whathaveyou guys beat it into the ground like what
happened with drum and bass :/
-jeff. . .waiting for the Betty Boo 2-step relicks anytime now
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