[cutup <cutup@andythepooh.com>]
quoted 8 lines i kind of feel the same way, but i can't tell if its just that i'm
> i kind of feel the same way, but i can't tell if its just that i'm
> hyper sensitive to what new music is coming out. it seems hard to
> imagine what direction that jungle will go from here without really
> smashing up the limited forms its governed by....i could imagine
> it...i just can't imagine it happening.
>
> i think its more time for the limits of jungle to be broken down and
> evolved....it already has but it should continue in many more ways....
I've always believed that the main problem with jungle is that it's too
self-limiting. You have guys like Grooverider and Goldie that want to
run the scene and make sure that the only stuff that gets popular is
what they like at the current moment. Jungle always has to move as one
big unit from one big thing to the next. There was even a post to the
Breakbeat Science message board once asking if it was OK to stop playing
Bad Company tracks. Jesus.
Then you look at a genre like techno that has WAY more releases in a
week and therefore way more releases that I like. Techno has allowed
itself to expand and diversify but jungle won't let this happen for some
reason.
When Laurent Ho, Maurizio and Plastikman are all techno, why can't the
variations in jungle be allowed as "jungle?" Jungle DJs get ridiculed
if they mix something like Squarepusher, Scud or Bukem with something
like Konflict... It's just annoying.
I'm not saying that DJs shouldn't play what they want to play... It's
just that they usually don't. And, on top of that, jungle is completely
run by two distributors (Vinyl and SRD) and they won't really carry
anything unusual.
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