In the actual drum n' bass scene, i totally agree with you.
But in dubstep, if you listen closely, putting the formulaic
parachuters aside, you'll find influences of dub (of course) techno,
oriental progressions, jazz, soul, various types of tribal
percussions, dancehall and hip-hop.
If what you're really saying is that the majority of style followers
take influences only of that style itself, i agree. It happens in all
styles, including techno and house.
Due to their popularization as club music, the number of generic,
functional and unexpressive tunes we can find, comming from techno
and house areas, are like the number of grains of sand in a beach.
Kw
On 28/03/2008, at 20:33, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Joel Gajewski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you messing with me or are you serious? I would assume that a
guy in the music
producing industry would have seen at least one copy of Sheet One
or Musik. Just my
opinion. I wasn't listening to dance music when Sheet One came
out, but I saw it in the
stores and thought 'wow, someone used a sheet of blotter as a cd
cover." Then, there was
the whole arrest of the kid that had the cd in his car when he was
pulled over in Arizona.
*shrug
you should never underestimate peoples' ignorance. especially not in
the modern drum and bass or dubstep scenes in which all influences
seem to come from within their own genre, knowledge of music history
seems to be completely lost on them.
tom
