--- Gareth Metford <gmetford@qubit.demon.co.uk> wrote:
quoted 10 lines Anyway, quite related to this is the fact that your
> > Anyway, quite related to this is the fact that your
> > friend and mine Vim! has been kidnapped by evil No'Mo'
> > minions and forced to do a stoopid idm cut-up of 'two-step'
> > Artful Dodger tune - 'Rewind'. It appears to have metamorphed
> > into Vim! vs. Awful Dodgy - "Rehash" :)
>
> I know this track was probably done as a joke, but quite seriously I
> thought it was great, and it's just the sort of thing I'd love to
> have on
> this compilation I'm planning.
I remember asking this question on here last year if anyone had come up
with any IDM versions of the 2-step sound yet. After all Aphex Twin and
his cohorts came up with the interesting dead end of Drill'n'bass as
their reaction to listening to the dominant sound of the airwaves at
that time which was Drum'n'bass. Now that 2-step rules the ether around
London, I've been waiting for it's influence to reach the sounds
discussed by this list.
quoted 15 lines But this whole business
> But this whole business
> of the
> champagne-swilling 2-step lifestyle *is* a tricky one, no doubt.
> There's a
> theory of 'oppositional hyper-capitalism' which holds that oppressed
> groups
> fight back against capitalism by parodying it, hyping it up to the
> nth
> degree, making it ridiculous. According to this theory, all those
> magnums
> of champers and salt-cellars of coke are consumed for no other reason
> than
> to produce a gruesome caricature of the supposedly exclusive
> pleasures of
> the rich. I'm not sure I buy this idea, though -
I dunno - there are parallels - see the sapeurs movement in Zaire (and
Paris) in the early 80's - when followers of Papa Wemba dressed in
expensive clothes as a reaction to a restrictive govt.
(see
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/kbl69/)
quoted 14 lines It's to do with 'swing', for want of a better word. 2-step
>
>It's to do with 'swing', for want of a better word. 2-step
> producers use all of the resolution their sequencers provide in order
> to
> shift their beats around by small amounts relative to one another.
> This
> results in rhythm tracks which are extraordinarily nuanced, and which
> have
> a kind of organic quality absent from most electronic dance music. It
>
> always reminds me of the rustling of leaves...that sort of quiet, but
>
> infinitely detailed rubbing and shaking and shivering which sounds
> unmistakably 'natural' to us.
Don't you just mean that they are messing around with the quantise
functions in Cubase a bit more than other electronic musics have?
Matt.
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