Gen Kanai wrote:
>
> At 10:09 PM 7/31/00 -0700, Elson Trinidad wrote:
>
> SNIP
> Yeah, blame Aphrodite. Tech-step or whatever they call it. I call it
> shite. ;)
Actually Aphrodite's stuff is more melodic and musical than the rest of the
"buzzsaw beats."
> 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.
I recently got an Akai MPC2000XL sampler/drum machine...and...for the past few
days
I've been building drumkits and programming...2-Step Beats...(uh oh!)
> 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.)
What about some of the more house-oriented record stores in NYC?
> 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.
True, but I don't blame them for that. *WE* can make the connection between dnb
and Garage, as well as hip-hop, bossa nova, rare groove, etc. But I don't think
they can.
For people who aren't open to diverse forms of music, it's hard for them to get
into other things.
> >In 3-5 years just watch, drum n bass will (d)evolve into nothing more than
> >"tech-punk."
>
> Hasn't that already happened?
Yeah I guess. Or how about "digital heavy metal?"
Elson
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