Cool that Shake posted a comment to the article acknowledging the funk. thanks,
Jeffrey J. Davis President & COO, AGY fon: +1.218.8332847 (21883DAVIS) fax: +1.803.643.4085 cel: +86.158.0184.9459 [email protected] / [email protected] jeffrey.james.davis JeffreyJDavis On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Tristan Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/03/2010 22:23, kent williams wrote: >> >> I think the article makes some good points but mostly in the context >> of the UK, where musical sub-genres are written about as though they >> were stars in their own right. >> >> The Detroit attitude is, I'd hope, more eclectic, and the musicians I >> talk to think more in terms of good or bad than this genre or that >> genre. So I can talk with Alan Oldham about Creation Records Shoegazer >> bands, and with Shake about Cooly G. > > The way I read it, he was saying that eclecticism and perpetual reinvention > is precisely what makes dubstep (so far) like the early days of Detroit > techno - that it is evolving very quickly, pulling in influences from all > over the shop and is difficult to pin down. I think that's a fair point. If > you listen to a lot of the best dubstep producers' DJ sets you'll find > influences from all over the last 25 years and within the various styles of > dubstep. > > Also, I think there's a misperception that it's just kids making this stuff. > Untold has been producing since '93 according to this RA article: > http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1105 > > Not that I think the comparison can stretch for miles or that anyone should > take it out of context. > > Ultimately, I'm just getting a bit irritated with people making more out of > it than it is or of writing it off altogether. Whether it's to everyone's > taste is one thing but I would hope it's evident that this isn't narrow or > purely derivative. In my mind it's one of the more interesting things to > happen in a long time precisely because it's not as narrow and codified as > any of the previous big electronic music trends. It's almost the complete > opposite. > > Tristan
