Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:01:29 -0600
Actually,
the 2-step and house not house sounds are almost direct opposites :). The
house not house stuff is VERY jazz flavoured and oft-times not terribly
dance floor oriented while the 2-step sound is the house answer to drum &
bass: fast, frantic, and not terribly soulful or deep. The house not house
scene is very closely related to the acid jazz scene (check your latest
Straight No Chaser for confirmation) while the 2-step scene has next to
nothing to do with it (except for a MJ Cole article, remix or whatever).
The leading labels in the house not house/jazzy deep house scene (in no
particular order): People, Main Squeeze, 2000 Black, Ascension, Influence,
Laws Of Motion, Afro Art, and maybe one or two more that escape me at the
moment.
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Iveson [mailto:kiveson@coombs.anu.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 9:09 PM
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Cc: nnine@yahoo.com
Subject: west london/housenothouse/2-step
hi everyone....
...stephanie said:
>Currently I am crazy about the entire west london
>sound, that house-not-house/nu jazz/neo electro stuff.
>I'm totally overwhelmed by that whole scene and can't
>keep up with all the key players and records I need to
>have. I feel like making a crib sheet out of an
>article about that crowd from the most recent Straight
>No Chaser and hanging it on my monitor so I know what
>to look for when it's mentioned. When did this thing
>start?? (And where was I napping when it happened??)
>Has its history been written yet, that I may be
>enriched with that knowledge?
oy, it's hard to keep up with all this shit. something I've been reading a
little about and am curious to check is some *East* London shit (I
think)... the whole "2-step" thing associated with labels like Locked On.
I don't know how this might relate to what you're asking about - in fact,
maybe my geography's just all fucked up and it's actually some of the same
people! who the hell knows...
...either way, for an interesting piece on 2-step, check Simon Reynolds'
article .... the following link is for an extended version of something he
had published recently in The Wire. Lots of names and labels to hang on
your monitor...
http://members.aol.com/blissout/2step.htm
There are MP3 samples of some of the tracks he mentions at www.juno.co.uk
kboi out
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