DJ Fish (fish@yesmate.com)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:38:57 -0000
sure. there's no doubting the quality of massive attack & portishead's
output, but their popularity probably has a lot to do with timing.
they both blew up pretty big around the same time as the mainstream uk rave
scene was fizzling out and opened up a genre for people wanting to listen to
"dance music" at home.
the music journos were throwing around terms like post-rave before someone
(muzik mag?) coined triphop.
this hasn't happened on such a scale in america as the rave scene never got
so big.
fish
-- fish@future-shock.co.uk futureshock productions tel: +44 (0)7932 621886 http://listen.to/djfish fax: +44 (0)7050 802805 http://www.subtone.co.uk fridays @ camouflage + femi fem (young disciples) saturdays @ slam with tim 'love' lee (tummytouch) daddy g & mushroom (massive attack), kojak (live) andy smith (portishead), digs & whoosh, mk2 (diy)
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