quoted 9 lines A ramble perhaps. But I empathize with the original>> A ramble perhaps. But I empathize with the original
>> poster as I used to be hugely into DnB/Jungle for a
>> number of years and I've all but given up on it for
>> lack of anything new.
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> There isn't lack of anything new really, but when some music or musician
> takes a genre to another level sometimes it simply stops being (in this
> case) drum'n'bass, so dnb DJ's stop playing it.
It's not so much 'as soon as someone takes the genre to another level' as 'as soon as someone not from the drum and bass scene starts using typically drum and bass sounds but to produce music that's more concerned with the home listening audience than the dancefloor.' People who feel that they like the sound, but they aren't interested in restricting themselves creatively by following the conventions that mean that DJ's will play the record and dancefloors will respond to it. And this is why DJ's stop playing it.
Drum and bass can accomodate change and has done repeatedly in the past (although I'll admit that it's been a bit static recently), it's just that it tends to come from a lot of trial and error experimentation with people sticking in a new element to see if it works in a club, and audiences gradually adapting and keeping up, rather than someone sitting down and coming up with a completely new template from scratch and then wondering why it clears floors...
That said, there doesn't seem to be a great amount going on at the moment, although I usually half suspect that this just means that there's a club or a label somewhere that's pushing amazing stuff but that it's far too underground for my suburban arse to have heard of. If anyone around here has heard of it, then do shout...
David
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