2005/10/12, StaticBeats <stupidnametaken@yahoo.com>:
quoted 7 lines --- Obed Vento <ovento@keyleadsonline.com> wrote:
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> --- Obed Vento <ovento@keyleadsonline.com> wrote:
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> A ramble perhaps. But I empathize with the original
> poster as I used to be hugely into DnB/Jungle for a
> number of years and I've all but given up on it for
> lack of anything new.
There isn't lack of anything new really, but when some music or musician
takes a genre to another level sometimes it simply stops being (in this
case) drum'n'bass, so dnb DJ's stop playing it.
Venetian Snares clearly has a strong drum'n'bass influence. On "Higgins
Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits" the "rudeboy massive" female opera vocal is
funny as hell, and he uses a lot of typical drum'n'bass tricks and sounds on
it (and mocks them while doing so).
The same goes for "Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletet", which is bloody excellent
and probably the best thing I bought this year, but it's not drum'n'bass
(anymore).
When it comes to drum'n'bass recently the more interesting tracks imo are
the ones influenced by breakcore or gabber, bringing a rawer edge to the
music, like recent stuff by Tech Itch, Dylan on Freaks Recordings, Evol
Intent and the Dutch DJ Hidden.
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