179,854Messages
9,130Senders
30Years
342mboxes

← back to listing · view thread

From:
To:
,
Date:
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:08:14 EST
Subject:
Re: (idm) this is the winter of our monkey
Msg-Id:
<0.d86c5ba1.259d31ce@aol.com>
Mbox:
idm.9912.gz
quoted 12 lines I believe a wise Zen Artist once said "All Techno comes from Dub, and all> > I believe a wise Zen Artist once said "All Techno comes from Dub, and all > Dub > > comes from Techno". > > > > Past, present and future... > > *cough* > > Umm, I'd find a new Zen Artist, as it's a known fact that King Tubby > wasn't listening to techno before he started twisting knobs down in JA. > The statement should be more like "All dub comes from King Tubby. All > techno is techno."
Actually, I think this Zen Artist is better known as Mad Professor and I doubt that he was referring to our rather limited conception of linear time. All Dub certainly did not come from King Tubby. It came from the shamanist-rhythmic spheres of the witchdoctor, which in African culture is the source of the mystical experience - that which allows the use of trance in healing. This rhythmic trance was and is very similar in structure to modern techno music. Both forms are uniquely intertwined - one reflects the effect of trance, the other of the dance. It is not coincidental that modern electronic dub music ala Basic Channel, Chain Reaction and Rhythm & Sound camps have a strong basis in mystical music - the reduction in sound structure is their extension into the spirit world. The dub was, is and ever shall be... Peace, A Z --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org