> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt MacQueen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 August 2003 16:12 > > Also Claude Young was involved with some remixes on a Solar Feelings > 12" from that album... on R&S in the mid 90's. He did a pair of > remixes on the 12", then there is an original and the J. Majik Mix... > the standout for me is "Claude Young's Kyoto Soul Dub" of said > track.... really cut up and asian instrument sounds (err, > sort of hard to describe).
I'd definitely recommend that particular track - I used to play it out a lot, and still do now. Being in London, I was extremely familiar with drum'n'bass music well before this came out, but Claude's mix on this 12" was really like nothing I'd heard before; people spoke about "intelligent dnb" but this track was pretty seriously futuristic. As Matt says, the Asian elements and the frantically cut-up nature of the track were most characteristic, but also to me, being well-versed in jungle cliché, the use of 909 closed hi-hats in the place of the Apache snares (again, hard to describe) was a really strikingly different feature of that track. And the strings, of course... reminded me of Claude's track on Frictional, "Second Experience", which also had chords so deep you felt you could swim in them. To be honest I think that after the mid-1990s drum'n'bass kind of failed to fulfil its potential - some of the tracks dropped up until 1996 hinted at a future that I don't really think ever properly happened... (but that's off-topic! :) Brendan
