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Damon Fairclough@PSYGNOSIS 08/07/97 10:09 On Mon, 7 Jul 1997 01:00:19 -0500 (CDT), Oblique Hostility <kent@inav.net> wrote:

quoted 7 lines I heard from someone who was trying to write drum and bass breaks for

>I heard from someone who was trying to write drum and bass breaks for >marching bands to play. The drummers can handle it, but I imagine >that the rest of the band's ludicrous lack of swing would get in the way >of a really convincing job. > >Though I would so treasure the thought of Goldie directing a college >marching band in a stirring rendition of "Inner City Life"

There has recently been a bit of activity in the UK by a project called 'Acid Brass' which basically rearranges acid house classics for performance by a brass band. I suspect yer average brass band is slightly different to your 'college marching band', but I imagine the instruments used are similar. Brass bands consist of the usual trumpets, trombones, french horns, tubas etc., but they're very strongly identified with northern English working class communities, particularly in the Yorkshire coal fields and the Lancashire cotton industry. The project was put together by an artist called Jeremy Deller (I think) who made various tenuous links between the working class brass band tradition and the early illegal acid house bashes - unfortunately, I can't give a first-hand response to their sound, though they've had interesting write-ups in the dance music press. Whether it's ultimately anything more than a novelty act I don't know - but they were one of the first acts on at this year's Tribal Gathering! I realise your point was more to do with the drum patterns of d+b and the marching band, but if you're also interested in the admittedly seductive warm brass band sound, I know there's an Acid Brass album due for imminent release on Blast First. Tracks include A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray', 808 State's 'Pacific State' and the KLF's 'What Time Is Love'..... Damon. Ears bleeding to: Jeff Mills - 'Kat Moda EP'

At 02:51 AM 7/8/97 -0700, you wrote:

quoted 15 lines At 10:09 AM 7/8/97 +0000, Damon.Fairclough@psygnosis.co.uk wrote:

>At 10:09 AM 7/8/97 +0000, Damon.Fairclough@psygnosis.co.uk wrote: >>I realise your point was more to do with the drum patterns of d+b and the >>marching band, but if you're also interested in the admittedly seductive >>warm brass band sound, I know there's an Acid Brass album due for imminent >>release on Blast First. Tracks include A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray', >>808 State's 'Pacific State' and the KLF's 'What Time Is Love'..... > >Oh wow. The mind reels... I'd die for an online sample of this somewhere. > > Brian > > >--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- >"Why not?" - TL brian@organic.com - hyperreal.org - apache.org >

The acid brass lp has already been released. Other artists covered: Derrick May: Strings of Life and Kevin Saunderson. -->-Lance--- p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states