first off, i will apologize to any 313'er i piss off by writing about this kind of music.
> There's a sound coming out from Britain called "2-step." Only reason I'm > familiar with it is that there is somebody on MTV with a 2-step video. > Like a mixture of Usher and....I don't know, Steve Hurley or something. it basically sounds like "junglesque house" for lack of a better term with a lot of r&b samples in it. sometimes a complete r&b song will be released in this format. it's becoming fairly popular even over here, as some r&b tracks that you can hear on the radio even are putting smatterings of the style in their songs. (if even just for a little break). a lot of what makes it sound the way it does is the use of drums and the bass that is prevalent in drum n bass, but only in a 4/4 housestyle format. if you want a good idea of what this sounds like...look for stuff by artful dodger and wookie. (my personal opinion on it got ruined by having a roommate who spun it every day for 6 months...so i am not the person to ask if the stuff is any good. i really don't care much for it.) it's starting to pick up in popularity around here in parties and even on crap like Muzak (which i heard an artful dodger track on recently...ugh...i guess it's more radiofriendly as the r&b lyrics are easily recognized by pop fans.) but that doesn't mean that it TOTALLY has to suck. i just don't like it because i was woke up every morning for six months to the stuff. > > I've noticed this too. A LOT of the sets I'm listening to now have got a > strong and deep musical component to them. A lusher disco sound. I'd > imagine that we've now got a generation of kids who are now djs...and > their ears are very sophisticated and they need more than NO WAY BACK. > a lot more layered of a sound is emerging in house. (just the opposite of the trend i see in good techno coming out. MY PERSONAL OPINION.) but i think the trend towards the heavier layered sound has been going that way for quite some time now. i would venture to say since at least 95-96 with the heavy emergence of the french house sound, which has been picked up on since by just about every other house producer out there now. *my personal opinion*. the production complexity has just continued to go up in house music. not that everyone is making GREAT tracks due to this complexity. it's just adding a different dimension to the sound. blah. back to work i go. lauryn. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
