Christopher Fahey <chrisfahey@mindspring.com>:
quoted 4 lines If you heard a NEW t-Power track, or a new Dillinja track, or any of those guys Simon> If you heard a NEW t-Power track, or a new Dillinja track, or any of those guys Simon
> Reynolds talks about, would you be able to identlify the artist without being told who it
> is? In fact, think about how many artists there are who you could identify at all just by
> the way it sounds.
Ah hah - the idm version of the pepsi challenge - I accept!
OK - maybe individual artists would be hard to identify, but
theres plenty of record labels/crews who have a distinct style
e.g. Mickey Finn/Urban Takeover's Hip Hop Jump up style.
No-U-Turn Which are all made in colaboration with one
man i.e. Nico - Obvious slow syrupy scary techstep
Photek and his ultra complex breakbeat science
T-Power - squelchy pretty synth melodies
Hype/Ganja Kru/True Playaz - Mad Amen rolling style
Source Direct - manic beat switching amen cutups
(actually source direct have been showing a lot of
variation recently - check Hokusai and two masks)
Grooverider/Protoype - fierce beats with the trade
mark bwwaaaaaoooohh acid bass noise. (well you try and
spell it!)
And so on and so forth.
And to all the cop outs who are just calling Reynolds
an idiot - Come on, so he has different tastes to you
try and think up some proper arguments, huh?
quoted 1 line To me, 99% of jungle sounds the same>To me, 99% of jungle sounds the same
Well let me just say what I say (and what I guess you'd say too)
to all the people who use this line to diss electronic music in
General - You ain't listening hard enough.
Cheers,
Andrew C.
PS - before any flames start rolling in - I like SquarePusher too!
This message isn't anti SquarePusher - its pro-jungle!