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Everything but the Girl stopped by the local Drum and Bass/Dub night at the Empty Bottle here in Chicago. After hanging at the bar for awhile Ben took the stage and spun a mix of upbeat to jazzy stuff. His tune selection was alright but the mixing skills were passable. No huge screw-up but the mixes tended to be fast cuts. What do you expect from a bandwagon-jumper? -- Mark Bowen mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu

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> Everything but the Girl stopped by the local Drum and Bass/Dub night at the > Empty Bottle here in Chicago. After hanging at the bar for awhile Ben took > the stage and spun a mix of upbeat to jazzy stuff. His tune selection was > alright but the mixing skills were passable. No huge screw-up but the mixes > tended to be fast cuts. > > What do you expect from a bandwagon-jumper?

That's a gross thing to say. Some 19 year old in England can say "Drum n' Bass - now *that's* what I want to do", get some gear together, get a record out, and everything's copacetic. But heaven forbid if two 30-somethings say "Drum n' Bass - now *that's* what we want to do now, because we love it" and put a Dn'B record out, well then, they're "bandwagon-jumpers" because they actually had previous records out that weren't in that style. I guess Jon Drukman is a "bandwagon-jumper" because he used to make Industrial music and wasn't doing Bass Kittens in 1989? I guess 3 Phase's "Der Klang Der Familie" isn't a seminal Techno record because, after all, they were just former Industrialites (Gerechtigkeits Liga) who became "bandwagon-jumpers" in 1991/92? I suppose since my wife had Industrial records out she'll be viewed as a "bandwagon-jumper" when her Techno material gets out? Oh, then of course there's that Mike Paradinas character; since his next album is supposedly Jungle then there's another "bandwagon-jumper" right there ... Need I say more? - Greg