quoted 9 lines has anyone been following this stuff?>> >has anyone been following this stuff?
>>
>> been TRYING to, although the bulk of this stuff never seems to make it out
>> of London.
>
>Don't bother, it's like a melange of styles that manages to take nothing
>interesting from any of those styles. People describe it as a cross
>between speed garage, garage, two step, and R&B. Well, I could hear the
>R&B, but the rest bored me stiff.
a lot of it is really interesting to me. sorta disjointed and dark, but
ultimately slinky and funky. i dunno, like i've said, i have had almost
zero luck in researching this stuff. i've found that the genre is, like
everything else, 90% crap ("crap" in the most objective way). i've heard
choons that i really like and never find them. i guess same as any
halfway-underground genre really.
i've learned that the "two step garage" mix has found it's way onto more
than a few UK Soul/R&B releases. Most of them are not particularly great,
but certainly servicable dance music. however the more esoteric beats and
such still elude me.
thing is is that i think that sound would go over well in funk-obsessed
Texas. In a broad the new garage straddles "breakbeat" and "house," two
styles which have always done well here.
and i've been thinking that UK garage would be the perfect new foil for
achingly-post-modern idm, like dnb around 95 with SP, Aphex, Vibert, etc.
well, maybe not. but it seems to me that there's a lot of potential energy
wating around in those rhythms. . .
-jeff
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