ok i'll admit it. i was a speed garage dj. back in madison, wisconsin, i'd
been playing techno, house, d'n'b, and was bored with it all, till i found
a 12" of that loop da loop mix of 'love commandments'. hard, driving 4/4
beat! huge d'n'b-style bassline! weird-ass time stretchy samples and
things! i could have done without the cheese vocals, but i loved it all
the same, and was hooked. i special ordered as much speed garage as i
could...after a few months i noticed all the b-sides to the records i was
buying were these 'breakbeat' mixes with cheeseball house organ lines and
even more horrendous skippy vocal samples than the tracks on the
a-side...this, apparently, was the infancy of '2step' (people around me
were calling it uk garage at the time)...pretty soon the b-sides became
the a-sides, and all i could find for speed garage records were horrid 4/4
mixes of ukgarage/2step tracks. gone were the huge dark basslines and fast
driving beats, replaced with bubbly boring bass, and that skippy
'oontz-kak-buh-kakkak' beat. this was followed by all the uk pirates and
even some mainstream radio stations starting to play it, terrible r&b
songs getting bootlegged into even more terrible 2step tracks, the 2step
blowup in the uk, and now the trickledown of it over here in the US. i
relocated to san francisco about 4 years ago, and have watched a number of
really good local d'n'b djs jump the jungle ship and start playing what
i've come to call poostep...oh well. i sit here under my grumpy umbrella,
waiting for this unfortunate storm to pass. like when one of my closest
pals got deeply and inexplicably into happy hardcore. heh.
admittedly, i've heard a few good 2step tracks: stuff on domu's new record
'up and down', an aromabar remix i forget the details of, some things on
svek that sound like 2step and tech-house humping...
but i suppose i'd like to hear from someone who actually likes 2step. tell
me: why? what's the appeal to you? is there anybody out there?
-z
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Rich wrote:
quoted 49 lines I am from the UK and two-step has been done to death here. I must admit I'm
> I am from the UK and two-step has been done to death here. I must admit I'm
> not it's greatest fan, cause the artists have ripped off every piece of
> Dance history we know, sampling and screwing it up. Most real dance fans
> (IMHO) in the UK will steer clear of it, mainly because it went far too
> commercial. Stick to D'n'B, it's much better. As for conventions, I think
> that the rhythms are mainly concentrated into every two steps (rather than
> four as in House and most other forms), so breaks and stops are quite common
> (and irritating).
>
> Maybe you may hear something different, but I think it was a bad idea made
> worse....
>
> All IMHO
>
> Also - Commercial Hit? It's the only reason 2-step got popular was by hype,
> media manipulation and suckers paying $$$ for recycled crap. 2-step is the
> only scene I know of to re-release a record with a few extra samples, and it
> was still popular..... Call it commercialism, call it whatever....
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Mediadrome@aol.com>
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:04 PM
> Subject: [idm] 2 step
>
>
> > Anybody here know anything about 2 step? I haven't heard much of it.
> > What I've heard sounds jungly and d&b. Are there any conventions to
> the
> > 2 step (like in house, you get claps on the 2nd and 4th beat)? Are
> there
> > any particular dance steps?
> > Is it a commercial hit in the UK?
> >
> > thanks
> > mediadrome
> >
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