RE: Review: Earth 4 (Good Looking)

From: Manire, Aaron D (amanire@indiana.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 00:16:41 MET DST

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    forgot to mention that i've been really enjoying the Fourtet reworking of 2
    Banks of 4, "Street Lullaby" and have seen a surprising amount of the
    artists you mention at the tower records here in boston. haven't picked up
    Sincere yet, but i probably will later this week. nothing worse than having
    your tables packed away in transit.

    also, some former "strictly junglists", chicago's Casper, in particular,
    have completely switched over to UK Garage/2 Step rhythms.

    paz,
    adario

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gen Kanai
    To: Elson Trinidad; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    Sent: 8/2/00 3:28 PM
    Subject: Re: Review: Earth 4 (Good Looking)

    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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