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From:
Kent Williams
To:
intelligent dance
Date:
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:07:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
(idm) Rubber Johnny
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Grabbed this yesterday on CD. Errr... My opinion -- another try at what is being hyped as "drill and bass" but fairly lame in my opinion. Some of the break programming is OK, but there are places where the jackhammer rolls get totally out of hand. It's a cool effect, but just triggering way-to-loud buzzing noises at random points doesn't fit my definition of funky or soulful. Again (like Vic Acid) rather indifferent production (mono or close to it, super-compressed, not enough low end). I don't know if it's supposed to be a big mystery who did it or not, but it sounds like perhaps Tom Jenkinson did it on an off day. For the Americans I found out through a net search that "Rubber Johnny" is british slang for a condom. Many of the hits on the alta vista search were on the Young Ones, which figures... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kent Williams kent@inav.net -- http://soli.inav.net/~kent