Re: Jungle, Roni Size, History and Jazz
DJ Sun
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:05:46 -0600
> Maybe you should listen harder and more closely. In a lot of tracks
> there is a dense interplay of rhythms and sounds. Moreover the
> strength of drum and bass comes from MIXING the tracks together to create
> a SET which is where things come together. This is a DJ medium.
> Tracks are released almost exclusively on vinyl to be mixed. To ignore
> that is to miss the point.
>
> Drum and bass is a genuinely NEW FORM that is being explored and invented
> at a fast, quarterly, pace. If you don't like it fine. But to suggest
> that it is boring and repetitive is just a sign of lack of interest,
> not some deep statement about the state of the scene.
>
> bijan
Thats exactly the point I've been trying to make. You put it in to more
direct terms.
But further, I think (and I have cited releases such as Sunship and 4 Hero) that
there are releases that challenge the assertion that jungle is "repetitive"....
Most of it IS, but the music is evolving and there will be more and more
releases which will become more complex as time passes.
PEACE!