It's interesting to see how the discussion on drum'n'bass has focussed more on the "intelligent" side of that scene - I was pretty immersed in the pirate radio scene during jungle's peak years here in London (1994-1996), and even played on one for a bit. The station I played on was Rage FM, whose musical policy was largely jump-up - but there was one magical moment where I played Dan Curtin's "Horizons Forgotten" (sped up, admittedly) and received an instant rewind request from the MC, Stevie A. On his second go at the track's long stringsy intro, he delivered quite a moving speech about "this is the original style" or something like that - I can't quite remember!
So anyway, it shouldn't be forgotten that underneath the shiny veneer of Bukem, Goldie and the like, there lurked an underground culture of transmitters hidden up council tower blocks, cut-up samples from hip-hop acapellas, and a healthy respect for any sine wave as long as it was being modulated in the Reese Bassline manner. And while the people in that scene didn't get called "intelligent", their respect for the roots of their music was no less strong... Ah, I might try to dig out some more of my old pirate tapes tonight - although I played on Rage, it was always Don that was my favourite! Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: mkb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 15 January 2003 15:54 | To: 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: (313) Re: Exploring Drum and Bass | | | > All his Mills/hip-hop style cut up mixing was | > traded in for boring, smooth, bland intro mixes, yuk! | | That's a bit out of date. I don't know about the newest Live | Progression | Session, but the one from Boston has a lot of that cut up mixing. | | The last album from Nookie has some samples of Rhythim is | Rhythim, but I | think that has surfaced here before (or something about Bukem playing | Model 500 at the wrong speed) | | -- | Cafard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | qu'est-ce que tu penses? AIM:pr0j2501 | Matt Kane's Brain http://mkb.n3.net | --net and overtheair radio http://hydrogen.n3.net-- | |
