THought i'd throw out a couple recomendations for really screwy drum n
bass. THis is stuff on the edge of something. Wherever that edge is, I
can tell you it certainly is not anywhere near a dancefloor.
THIRD EYE FOUNDATION has a new CDEP out (sorry, I forget the label at the
moment...) four songs. The closest genre of music you can align this with
would be drum n bass, but this is whacked out. Verging on noise here.
It's not bad though if you like that sort of stuff. Before that I HIGHLY
recommend the last Third Eye Foundation album, "Ghost", which is not so
much noise as just plain SCARY. The only instrument you can definitely
make out is the drum tracks. Over the breakbeats is a blur of samples
(sirens, door
hinges, shrieks, water down drains, etc.) layered so thick it's just
plain intimidating. Maybe if you imagine the soundtrack to eraserhead
with breakbeats, you'll come close to imagining what this album is
like. "Ghost" is great great record and it comes a lot
closer to giving me a heart attack than Wes Craven, Steven King, or CLive
Barker ever will.
Out of san francisco is a guy by the name of LESSER (also known as LSR).
He just put out a new 12"/CDEP called "Welcome to the American
Experience" on Vinyl Communications. Also very messed up, very
non-dancefloor friendly, very verging-on-noise-but-not-noise.
This is what you get when a harcore punk kid gets his hands on a drum
machine and a sampler (not to be confused with Atari Teenage
Riot...possibly as a aggressive as something alec empire puts his hands
on, but also a lot more fucked up)
by the way the CD version of American Experience has a couple more tracks
than the 12".
just thought I'd throw those two recomendations out in light of the "what
is good jungle" thread. I don't necesarrily hold these two up as the
definition of "good jungle" (since I don't really think what they're
doing falls nicely enough in that genre definition), but if there's
anyone out there looking for something different, give these guys a try,
especially Third Eye Foundation's "Ghost"