quoted 8 lines Someone on Dogs On Acid (of all places) made the interesting suggestion>Someone on Dogs On Acid (of all places) made the interesting suggestion
>that the point when drum and bass got less interesting was when producers
>started coming up who'd been raised on dnb and dnb only, and as a result
>brought no external influences and variety to the table and just refined
>what was there already, whereas the early sound was a motley assortment of
>ravers, b-boys, dancehall types, indie-converts and so on, and they all
>pulled the sound in different directions, resulting in a far less
>predictable scene.
I've heard people say this kind of thing a bunch, but I don't buy it.
I know plenty of people who listen to ALL different kinds of music, but
still produce relatively uninteresting music.
The path that D&B has taken I think is more just a matter of a genre playing
out the way that genres typically do...initial sparks, some development and
branching out, forming pretty solid boundaries, then stagnating because
there's by definition nowhere else to go. If you have a truly creative
Take on D&B these days, its not going to be labeled as such.
I'd agree that D&B stopped being truly exciting several years ago (although
I do still enjoy it regularly). But if you think about the things that grew
out of D&B, but exceeded its self-defined boundaries, it's influence has
Echo'd on into newer exciting forms, be it broken beat, garage, grime,
breakcore, etc....
Of course, it's always kind of bullshit when you talk about music like
It's some sort of singular entity, so what do I know?
- cutups
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