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1996-06-30 18:04GD Re: (idm) the M is for Mills / Wafta
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1996-06-30 18:04GDMiles Egan wrote: > I'm not a big fan of jungle in general but junglists deserve a lot of
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Re: (idm) the M is for Mills / Wafta
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Miles Egan wrote:
quoted 10 lines I'm not a big fan of jungle in general but junglists deserve a lot of> I'm not a big fan of jungle in general but junglists deserve a lot of > credit for opening up the rhythmic structure of this music. My problem > with a lot of jungle is that it's not structured *enough* to hold my > attention. This is a fine line to walk. It's hard for me not to see the > entire history of 4-floor dance music as a crude pre-history of 21st > century electronic music. Nobody is going to listen to those thumping > house records 15 years from now. I don't even like to dance to this stuff > and I'll *never* throw it on at home. There's a world of difference > between using repetetion effectively and with restraint and just letting > the sequencer loop endlessly.
I agree with this for the most part - 4-on-the-floor is OK if it's used for just a portion of a track, but it gets boring really quickly. Jungle can be boring too if just 'amen' breaks are used, but there is a lot more rhythmic variety on most tracks. On an unrelated note, the Wafta 12" is quite interesting - parts of it sound *a lot* like Mr. Jenkinson's work, but the disc does have a different vibe to it, if ya ask me... Highlights for me were: a2 - nice use of an oft-used break with a bell-cup ride hit on the downbeats (where did this break originate?); a3 - HABII-style keyboards and grungy beats; b1 - *slow* (ca. 100 bpm?) breaks at the beginning. In general the beats don't sound as fluid or nimble as SP, but quite varied and intriguing (both rhythmically and timbrally speaking). GD