On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Will Samuels wrote:
| I agree with what Brock said about there is more going on in the drum
| n bass scene. In the past, I have always bought a hell of alot of IDM
| and Detroit techno, but I buy WAY more drum n bass now.
I find it kinda amusing that my friends who have been buying drum n bass
for years have cut their purchasing of that kind of stuff right right
down. There's a lot of talk around me, and in stuff I read, about drum n
bass hitting a real creative low.
Anyway, I'm not really gonna take one side or another, cos I don't like
much drum n bass full stop. However, the above fits with my general
observation that the focus in drum n bass has really changed somewhere
along the way (the Good Looking thing, and the No U-Turn thing in pretty
much the opposite direction). So a lot of those who liked whatever it was
that drum n bass used to be predominantly about seem to be dumping it, and
a new group of listeners are picking it up getting into the new sound.
I find something about the production of recent drum n bass to be really
"head ache-y". I dunno what it is? More lower mids coming through? Lots of
distortion?
Michael
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