On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, graham.booth wrote:
quoted 5 lines Kind of funny> > Kind of funny
> > realizing that Ben Watt is actually doing jungle drum programming now.
>
> Err, I think you'll find that their jungle stuff was actually written
> by the excellent Spring Heel Jack and (sadly) not Ben Watt.
Actually, Spring Heel Jack wrote only 1 of the 4 or 5 jungleish tracks on
the new EBTG LP. Ben Watt appears to have gotten much more deft with his
drum machine programming. I know there's one EBTG song where the
highhats run in straight 16ths throughout the entire song which leaves me
a bit loony by the 32nd bar.
The first track on the LP is one of my favorite D&B tracks for the way the
synth line works with the drums. Of course, Jungle purists will probably
be disappointed in that he's not using the Amen break, rather, he's just
been influenced to do "Junglesque" beats. I'm sure the cynics will say
that EBTG is just trying to cash in on the latest craze, but I sense that
they're just trying to keep from getting stale. I read in an interview
that they were enormously influenced by their work on Massive Attack's
"Protection".
I for one am quite happy that they went in thsi direction. My wife plays
_nothing_ but EBTG, so at last there is a CD that we can both listen too.
Che