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From:
William Samuels
To:
Joel Fever , Steven Gravener ,
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Date:
Fri, 24 May 2002 14:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
Re: [idm] Why doesn't anyone write drum n' bass anymore.
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< by the sounds of it.. you guys just started listening to drum and bass 3-4 years ago... here is a fact. drum and bass is a deriviative of HARDCORE... > For me more like 7 years ago. Hardcore from 1992 would simply sound like cheesy Rave music by today's standards. You can hardly say 2 Bad Mice is punishing (or menacing)...even back then. Some people were making ravey dnb with pianos and chipmunk vocal, some people were making really funky music, jazzy dnb, jump up, and then you had No U-Turn's dark techstep. Everyone had their own sound, and I think everyone wanted to push the boundaries of what could be achieved. As far as the dark and punishing stuff, when it was good I bought it. All the early Virus, Metro, and No U-Turn records are sick! Ram also put out some really good tune. < there fore ... "punishing" as you put it is infact OK and acceptable..> If it's pushing some boundaries, or sounds unique.... the sure I would probably pick it up. I need something different from the same old formula and I'm sick of hoovers. < and do you know what?? there is actually atmospheric producers.. jazz producers... and intelligent producers of jungle/dnb... that you fail to mention...
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I don't know of anyone that is doing anything that interesting. The Good Looking camp hasn't put out too many releases over the last couple of years that excite me. I already gave props to Certificate 18, who still manage to put out some fine releases. < and one last thing.. just because the sounds you hear are outdated .. (because of trickling releases from record companies) doesn't mean the sound is dead.. it actually changes every 6 months. > Then I suppose maybe sometime in the near future there might actually be a song out there that stands out. We'll all be waiting... Old Photek still sounds great to me! You would think that with the technology today someone would have at least come close to the brilliance of older Photek. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org