--On Saturday, February 19, 2000, 3:34 AM +1030 "Scott Vallance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A drum and bass dj on a local scene mailing list was recently saying how > much more progessive drum and bass is. Every few months it seems to me > that there is a new style of drum and bass, but most tracks within that > new style are very similar and a lot are unoriginal (no more than any > other music style, im not insulting d'n'b here). The tracks in that > style seem to be perceived as original and new, even if they are totally > derivative. In techno the originality is not defined by belonging to a > new style, but for the individual creativity shown in the track. At > least thats my take on the difference... I'm interested in what other > people think. There's was definitely a period of time when drum and bass was in constant flux and having the newest meant having the best. I still think there's innovation, however, but only from a select few, namely, Q-Project, Photek, Paradox etc. What they produce is brilliant and very pertinent to techno culuture. I think Q-Project is more towards techno/IDM than it is drum and bass. Techno/DrumandBass. Creativity in both techno and drum and bass has to mutually exclusive from the state of the art; otherwise, it always will be derivative. That is, I agree with you. Originality is rooted in individual creativity. Just sometimes it happens to lead to a new style. Cheers. Mike
