stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:23:28 -0800 (PST)
Is 2-step the stuff they used to call speed garage?
yeah, that stuff is cotton candy through and through.
wasn't "2-step" also considered a style of jump-up a
couple years ago? Really fast busy drums, party vibe,
ear candy kind of stuff. People like The Dream Team,
the whole Joker Records thang? then it devolved into
part of the soulless "boom-cha...boom-cha" family?
--- Kurt Iveson <kiveson@coombs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Dirk wrote:
>
> >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).
> >
>
> ok, got it. so even London now has it's own
> East/West beef going on. :-)
>
> As I said ... I haven't heard much of the 2-step
> stuff, but some of it
> sounded alright to me ... funky in a jittery kinda
> way, doing some
> interesting fx things to the vocals, and bringing
> some nice sub-bass action
> along for the ride (Dem 2 or Antonio, say). Some
> of it sounded like it
> was done-by-the-numbers too... and I'm sure this
> characterises a lot of
> what's coming out. So it felt to me a little like
> contemporary r'n'b ...
> in the sense that it's mostly garbage, but there are
> some folks involved
> who are trying to bring some Prince-inspired shit
> into this century.
>
> and speaking of MJ Cole ... a new full length is due
> from him soon which
> sould be interesting. It's gonna be on Talkin Loud,
> and (not surprisingly)
> Gilles P has been playing the hell out of the
> downtempo track "I see" on
> his radio show ... sounds very nice.
>
> Kboi
>
>
>
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