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drift wood
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Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:42:50 +0100 (BST)
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RE: (idm) (IDM) NEW COMPILATION CD: CONTRIBUTORS SOUGHT
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quoted 3 lines Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 03:17:24 +0100> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 03:17:24 +0100 > To: "'idm@hyperreal.org'" <idm@hyperreal.org> > From: Gareth Metford <gmetford@qubit.demon.co.uk>
Gareth wrote about d&b
quoted 2 lines By '97 the scene was pretty much washed up as a cultural force -> By '97 the scene was pretty much washed up as a cultural force - >it had become another one of those small-scale purist musics, a bit
like
quoted 7 lines IDM, which periodically produce good records but have very little>IDM, which periodically produce good records but have very little > influence >on wider cultural formations, and which never seem to change very > much. >This is in marked contrast to the incredible liveliness of 2-step, > which >throws up a new mutation every other week.
So presumably what your saying is that 2-step IS a cultural force? Yer avin a barf aintcha? So going to a nightclub in yer beamer dressed in moschino, ordering champagne and partaking of a few lines of the white stuff is doing something that is a 'cultural force'?
quoted 5 lines Speed garage was 4/4 with added breakbeats, but 2-step is neither 4/4> Speed garage was 4/4 with added breakbeats, but 2-step is neither 4/4 > nor breakbeat. Instead it maps the techniques of re-encoding > breakbeats that were developed by junglists onto the kind of > instrumentation previously used by garage producers to construct 4/4 > rhythms
I listen to the pirates every weekend and don't hear any musical techniques that haven't been employed by d&b producers. In fact, speed garage was more adventurous on this score because the extreme syncopation that characterised a lot of the genre appears to have mainly disappeared from the 2-step scene. Please put me right and name some if you think I'm incorrect.
quoted 3 lines ...a 'phase change' in>...a 'phase change' in >methodology analogous to the changing of state in heated liquids > (i.e. when they turn to gas).
Lets face it, this is the sort of over-analysing bollocks that helped to destroy d&b - lets not do it to 2-step as well. Matt.
quoted 2 lines> >
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