Re: Mixing jazzy jungle

Mark Turner
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:40:51 -0800 (PST)

> 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Woah! What's this about a remix LP? Do you have a track listing?

Thanks. :-)

-- 
 Mark Turner
 mturner@netcom.com