For what it's worth, I think you're right on point.
One question though... Despite all the other dope stuff coming out the UK, you
say "I dont think Ive ever heard a decent English rapper" and I'd have to agree.
My question is how do Gallianno get over with that dry, dry rapper? Do people
really like him? Or, do they just focus on the music and ingnore him? Am I the
only one who thinks his voice has ruined far too many great instrumental tracks?
Yet he's still all over the records and they seem to get press and sell. I'm
curious.
jp
chris larkin <C.J.Larkin@reading.ac.uk> 7/25/96 7:18 AM wrote
> I had to think about this cos as a brit I could get flamed if I
>sound too smug about the cool music scene here! But, the scenes are
>really just radically different. I talked to T-Bird about this another
>time, or similar anyway; it seems in the US music scenes are much more
>sharply defined and purist than here. So you get the authentic culture
>which we copy - the jazz, the hip-hop etc - but we tend to mix it up
>more. I dont think Ive ever heard a decent English rapper (even Tricky
>who any way says hes not a rapper), but as T pointed out & I agree, the
>uk produces brilliant Techno. And look at the readiness of EBTG to take
>on drum and bass.Also for example, at WOMAD, last week I saw a local band
>called Dreadzone who can go from playing straight out Dub reggae into
>solid dancefloor tecno with no problems. Then theres this Trip-hop using
>a mix of dance music styles & reggae & hiphop- if we like it we do it!
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