de la soul is dead and buried (was Re: Again, the definition...)

From: adario (adario@thingsburnup.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 17:36:18 CET

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    just to get some attribution here, i believe it was photek who proclaimed
    that drum and bass had become electronic music's equivalent of heavy metal.
    that's some strong authority there considering his respect within and
    seminal contributions to the genre. even still, check out his latest album
    which goes all over the place from deep soulful house to ambient bjorkish
    paeans to straight up drum and bass. so is photek some kind of
    schizophrenic mortician? nah. just makes you think that photek is making
    "acid jazz" ; ) i guess it comes down to the fact that photek has never
    been afraid to put his heart and soul into his music. whereas the fading
    trendsetters like dieselboy have done their best to hack away any emotional
    depth from their sounds.

    but no *rhythm* could ever lose it's potential to shake some soulful booty.
    can i get a soul clap?

    just another white nerd's perspective,
    aaron dario

    and, oh yeah, it all comes down to art official intelligence

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Andy Battle <abattle@bu.edu>
    To: <emaag@yahoo.com>; Shawn Kuo <shawn@tradename.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:09 PM
    Subject: Re: Again, the definition...

    > I definetely would not place acid jazz in the same category as drum and
    > bass, although there is some overlap. In a way Eric is right with his
    "dead
    > and buried" joke--drum and bass seems to be stuck in sort of a creative
    rut
    > in my opinion (white nerds sucked all the soul out of it, turned it into
    the
    > heavy metal of electronic music). Don't mention that to the "heads" in
    the
    > Breakbeat Science lounge, though, they're liable to murder you.
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Eric Maag" <emaag@yahoo.com>
    > To: "Shawn Kuo" <shawn@tradename.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:49 AM
    > Subject: Re: Again, the definition...
    >
    >
    > > I thought D & B stood for Dead and Buried?
    > > Heh, just had to toss that one out.
    > >
    > > There's tonnes of D&B that I still listen to, so don't flame me.
    > >
    > > Eric
    > >
    > > --- Shawn Kuo <shawn@tradename.com> wrote:
    > > > Can AJ be categorized as a sub-branch of Drum and Bass?
    > > > Literally Speaking D and B is all music that has a bassline witha
    > > > drum pattern.
    > > >
    > > > confused sz~~~
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
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