Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@best.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:21:08 -0700
At 8:58 AM -0700 10/22/99, Mark Turner wrote:
>I'm not a big fan of nubreakz. I like a little more melody with my
>beats. Some of it is OK, if it's funky enough or there's a clever
>use of sample material. But in general I see it as an evolution of
>the "big beat" sound (Chems, Propellerheads, etc.), which I never
>liked much either. YMMV.
I've only heard Botchit & Scraper's _United Breakz Nation_, which has some
nice stuff, & Moving Shadow's _Professor Tsungs' Art of Science Funktion_,
which is pretty killer. The movement seems like an outlet for d&b
producers to explore lower tempos & other breaks than "Amen"; in other
words, I have trouble telling it apart from any good, creative breakbeat as
done by trans-tempo genii such as Hive & DJ Wally/Pish Posh. It def.
sounds somewhat like Big Beat, but I think they probably did well to pass
on "Mid-Size Beat" as a tag! I'm probably more fond of Big Beat than Mark,
choosing to think of it as the better acts on Wall of Sound & stuff like
Lionrock, which is admittedly a slight stretch. I refer to the Chemicals
as "Stadium Rock Techno" in the privacy of my own home, as they tend to
annoy the fuck out of me.
Jason Witherspoon
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