Sorry for the late post - just read it.
I used to buy a lot of dnb, don't buy it any more but still like to
listen to it. Alex, I do wear a puffer jacket though, sadly no escort -
I'm saving though. I'm always amused by stereo types of people in music
scenes. Sometimes when I tell people I like techno, they think of an
open field with lots of hippys head banging :)
I dunno what the detroit techno stereo type would be?
Anyway a few albums/artists worth checking out - perhaps not all detroit
influenced.
T-Power, self evident truth of an intuitive mind, still listen to this
even though its 10 years old.
Adam F, colours. I like it.
EZ-rollers. Jazzy stuff.
I have a lot of the good looking ,720 releases from mid-late nineties.
Horizons - Bukem, is a great detroity track.
Ray Keith - a few tracks are quite dark (From what I recall there was a
nice EP called The Power), heavy bass and quite minimal.
Photek of course, modus operandi and Form and Function
omni trio - byte size life, is heavily detroit influenced and very good.
There are lots more too...
Oh and about A guy called gerald, I don't think he was ever really
considered a true part of the DnB scene. That might just be me though,
I've always thought of him as a techno producer who dabbled in DnB.
Cheers
Mike
Matt MacQueen wrote:
a lot of great dnb i just slept on, thinking it would last forever and
i'd catch up. how little i knew of UK music trends ;)
now there are so many cuts i wish i'd have picked up..... Charles Noel,
Titonton from Ohio, and others in detroit like Paris and DJ Rotator
(even DJ Assault's early mixes to some degree!) were rocking this stuff
at parties and much of it great. I had a copy of a Paris mixtape
(cassette) that he reportedly created in order to hand to to Mills when
he was in the D for one weekend... one side was super dope minimal
detroit techno all cut-n-paste mixed Claude style.. the flip side was
all very detroity feeling DnB. No idea where it is now... sigh.. but
brilliant from front to back.
Anyway, DnB to me, coming from a learning to Dj in a techno background,
it was hard to keep up with and -- like any great imports -- a finite
amount of it came to Record Time and the best of the best stuff
disappeared quickly. I'd love to hear anyone/everyone take a crack at
the best jungle/DnB mixes that employ that whole 'detroity feeling'...
from Jacob's Optical Stairway to Lemon D to 4 Hero to LTJ to the better
Photek to whoever else you feel represents the best of the (this is sad
to say) 'golden era' of dnb, before it mutated into something
unreconizable, something that felt like you never really knew it to
begin with. I know this thread comes up once a year but i need some
mixes to go with it... School me. My iPod is a yearnin'
Someone in detroit get Brian Gillespie to rock a mix from this era, he
had *everything*... first time i ever saw someone in the US sporting a
Metalheads t-shirt to a Family Funktion party... he was all over it.
--
MM
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