I get the impression, though, that bass/booty/jeep tracks are on a fast downhill slide. I was kind of disappointed by what I found at Record Time as far as recent releases. UC and other labels that followed Dance Mania can copy the roughness but not the wackiness, which is what I really love about DM. The LA labels are just sad. Aside from Godfather and Assault, not much of the new Detroit stuff seems to be deviating from the narrow middle ground.
So now we are in the latter days of bass and Simon Reynolds is making ha-ha jokes about "intelligent bass." Sigh. I remember an interview with Lenny Dee in DJ Magazine (the big slick one that is geared to "mobile" DJs who do weddings and stuff like that, but they generally have very good cover interviews). They asked him about these new trends in "intelligent dance music." "I don't make intelligent techno," Lenny said. "I make stupid techno!" phred
