I don't agree with this at all. From my experience the reason that it
doesn't get played in clubs is purely because of lazy djs. Most of the
drum'n'bass djs I've spoken to all seem to like jazzy stuff but choose
to play jump-up or dark stuff because they find it easier to mix
(there's no difference at all as far as I'm concerned) and because of
the fact that they see jazzy or intelligent tunes as a less pure form
of the music or watered down in some way and don't want to play it in
case they lose the street cred that they seem to think they have. As
for not being dancefloor fodder that's not true either. Sure some of
this stuff isn't suited to dancing but the majority of tunes have deep
sub-bass that can't be heard very well on home systems but transforms
the track when played over a loud system. I defy anyone to sit down
(if you can) and listen to the Flytronix mix of Courtney Pine's 'the
37th Chamber' from his new remix LP and tell me that they wouldn't
dance to it in a club.
My word to all djs is if you like jazzy d'n'b then play it out and
start making d'n'b clubs less boring and one-dimensional than the ones
I've been to recently.
Colin.
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