I think there's a question of intention as well. There are people who
hear one track and then search for Cutty Ranks on soulseek, and it's
pretty bald appropriation, and used with no small condescension to the
original material.
Aaron Spectre, from the sound of it, and the few words I had with him,
is a huge fan of ragga jungle and reggae. His set started from ragga,
and pumped it up past eleven. It was exhilarating, crazy, awesome,
fun, seizure-inducing music. He was not using a few vocal samples as
hip references to put his arbitrary glitch-step beats over.
I've always been a reggae fan as much as I am an IDM fan (or a techno
fan, or a house music fan, or a jazz fan ...) so for me it was a pitch
right over the plate, as it were. Your mileage may vary.
The problem with EVERY musical genre is that we never seem to finally
defeat the sucker MCs. Beethoven had to sweat 'em too.
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:50:44 -0500, cutups <cutup@andythepooh.com> wrote:
quoted 18 lines I don't know about y'all, but I'm getting really really tired of the
> >>
> >> I don't know about y'all, but I'm getting really really tired of the
> >> whole ragga dancehall sound with raggae man vocal samples infiltrating
> >> its way into hardcore breackbeat stuff.
> >>
> >> Hopefully it'll be as short lived as the whole electroclash thing.
> >>
>
> Its definitely not new, but its been a huge trend for the past several years
> amoung a number of producers in "breakcore" (ex: Bong-Ra, Enduser, etc.)
> and there's been a pretty big surge in the ragga jungle scene in general.
>
>
> It is kind of an overdone sound at this point.
> But if you just take it for what it is, its still quite fun.
>
> - cutups
>