"I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, because the
people making it weren't musicians. The best artists are people who don't
consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most
pretentious and annoying. [*laughs*] They've got their priorities wrong.
They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
And a lot of jungle people were actually car mechanics and
painter-and-decorator types, like, pretty hardcore blokes. I wouldn't want
to get into a fight with them. I know a few people who were like that, and
I don't think that really exists any more. Maybe those sort of non-musician
types do some dubstep stuff, or grime. But it didn't exist in jungle for
long. There was only a couple of years where people didn't know what they
were doing, and you got all these samples that are just totally not related
in pitch. I really hunt down those records. They've got this ridiculous
mishmash of things that totally don't go with each other at all. Obviously,
after they've done it for a couple of years they learn how to make chords
and stuff, and it's not so interesting now."
heh, i totally loved that bit, he really nailed it for me...
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer