Miles Egan wrote:
quoted 10 lines I'm not a big fan of jungle in general but junglists deserve a lot of> I'm not a big fan of jungle in general but junglists deserve a lot of
> credit for opening up the rhythmic structure of this music. My problem
> with a lot of jungle is that it's not structured *enough* to hold my
> attention. This is a fine line to walk. It's hard for me not to see the
> entire history of 4-floor dance music as a crude pre-history of 21st
> century electronic music. Nobody is going to listen to those thumping
> house records 15 years from now. I don't even like to dance to this stuff
> and I'll *never* throw it on at home. There's a world of difference
> between using repetetion effectively and with restraint and just letting
> the sequencer loop endlessly.
I agree with this for the most part - 4-on-the-floor is OK if it's used for
just a portion of a track, but it gets boring really quickly. Jungle can be
boring too if just 'amen' breaks are used, but there is a lot more rhythmic
variety on most tracks.
On an unrelated note, the Wafta 12" is quite interesting - parts of it
sound *a lot* like Mr. Jenkinson's work, but the disc does have a different
vibe to it, if ya ask me...
Highlights for me were: a2 - nice use of an oft-used break with a bell-cup
ride hit on the downbeats (where did this break originate?); a3 -
HABII-style keyboards and grungy beats; b1 - *slow* (ca. 100 bpm?) breaks at
the beginning. In general the beats don't sound as fluid or nimble as SP,
but quite varied and intriguing (both rhythmically and timbrally speaking).
GD