At 10:09 PM 7/31/00 -0700, Elson Trinidad wrote:
SNIP
>I don't think Drum n Bass is dying, but I do think it's becoming more
>homogenized, taken over by college-aged boys wearing baseball caps (will
>those of you who have seen these types please raise your hands?) prefering
>testosterone-infused hardstep beats and ONLY those kinds of beats, shunning
Yeah, blame Aphrodite. Tech-step or whatever they call it. I call it
shite. ;)
Is anyone on the Acid-Jazz list getting into UK Garage or 2 Step? Artful
Dodger, Dreem Team, MJ Cole, etc.? Everyone is talking about the new MJ
Cole album on Talkin' Loud like it has already won the Mercury Music Award
prize...keep your eye out for that one.
It's close to impossible to get any of that stuff here in the
US. Satellite Records doesn't carry more than a few of the top tunes
(people over there tell me that the owners don't like that new sound so
they don't order it.) Breakbeat Science doesn't carry much of it (the new
Revolution Magazine says that they do but I was there yesterday and they
had all of maybe 20 pieces.) It seems as if UK Garage will be a long way
from making it here in the US although it's on Radio 1 in England daily.
>Apparently drum n bass (at least here in the US) is turning into a scene of
>a limited cadre of DJs/producers who only get the "Breakbeat Science Seal
>of Approval (tm)." All others are either newbie imitators ("I wanna make
This is a huge problem for BBS, imho. They're insuring their genre's
demise. With a retail operation that is so focused on a specific genre,
and almost no expansion into nu-skool breaks or UK Garage, Breakbeat
Science is betting it all on drum'n'bass.
>In 3-5 years just watch, drum n bass will (d)evolve into nothing more than
>"tech-punk."
Hasn't that already happened?
G
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