quoted 18 lines A ramble perhaps. But I empathize with the original> > 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).
The closest thing to strict drum'n'bass that Snares has done would still be
the Salt ep on Zhark, which is an excellent record. Intense Demonic
Attacks, Diffuse Vertigo Jenny and such. The sounds he's using are still
well within the realm, but the time signatures give it a somewhat different
feel. At the time I was refering to a lot of his stuff as DrunkenBass - not
because it sounded sloppy, but because the rhythms often gave the listener a
sense of being off-balance.
If anyone is really interested and going back and checking out other
releases from this period that straddle the line between drum'n'bass and
then-blossoming 'breakcore' - there's tons out there... some really good
records came out of the DHR camp around '96 or so... although pretty much
all the stuff with vocals sounds pretty dated. Praxis, Sub/Version, Cold
Fusion, Chrome (before it was re-baptised Position Chrome)... and Kultbox...
god damn was Kultbox a good label that pretty much everybody overlooked.
The Rude66 record on there is killer - as is the 12" by the Biets Op Je
Fiets crew (Sandstorm, Hidden, Eye-D)....
The Bomb Dogs material on Audio Illusion is top notch as well...
quoted 4 lines When it comes to drum'n'bass recently the more interesting tracks imo are>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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