Aphrodite is more synonymous with jump up.
I strongly disagree that most of the dnb producers are trying to make tracks likedieselboy for instance. Does this bandwagon generalization include California's finest....phunkateck/groundscore and so on?
UFO!, sage, roxanne, subcode..e-ssasin...damn fine producers.
Proud.of.US.dnb...shell
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jazpa" <jazpa@wizardworkshop.com>
Reply-To: <jazpa@wizardworkshop.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 19:05:59 -0400
>
>What's up with all the dnb bashing?
>I think it's good that people stick to selling what they know.
>(Not to say growth is bad.)
>With
> respect,
>shell
>
>--------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:41:28 -0700
>
>>
>>
>>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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>> - 30 -
>>
>> :. elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
>> :. elson@westworld.com
>> :. www.westworld.com/~elson
>>
>> "music is a form of rapid tranportation" - john cage
>>
>> [ the futurethnic beats of e:trinity - www.e-trinity.org ]
>>
>
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>Starbass23/Steel Sisters
>in.bass.we.trust
>
>"Art is simply opinion, and what might taste like creme de menthe to the lounge lizard might taste like feces to an ordained minister."
>-Robt. Williams
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