Re: Living in the UK

From: Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 02:16:26 CET

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    Well, I'd be the last person to disagree that there's a lot of fantastic
    stuff coming out of central europe now - and I've this list to thank for
    being able to find out about a lot of it.

    But I ought to point out, for the sake of clarity, that though I'm a Norf
    Lundun boy originally, I spent the past four years living in *Ipswich*
    before moving to Van.

    Now, I will be the first to admit that the Ipswich nu-jazz scene (or for
    that matter any scene) is far from healthy when compared to London. How much
    can you expect from a town of 120,000 people, right? But maybe even Ipswich
    seems like a bustling metropolis if you live in Colchester :-)

    I think it's quite a stretch to base an opinion of a whole country from a
    few posts here and a maybe gushing write-up in SNC.

    Unless someone on the list has something to tell us about the vibrant scene
    in Saskatoon, of course...

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Barimore, Carl J" <cbarim@essex.ac.uk>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:19 PM
    Subject: RE: Living in the UK

    > Dave's right.
    >
    > Like him I've only just stumbled across the European scene, as a result of
    > reading about it in this list. The Compost stuff is fantastic and I'll be
    > trying to hear some of the Hungarian stuff too, but from Compost alone it
    > seems better over there than it does here.
    >
    > I haven't heard stuff like this in the UK, but that's probably because I
    > don't know much about it. I don't know what's happening in London but very
    > little happens outside of it (in the UK), and that goes for nearly every
    > music scene. People are always posting events listings for Canada and the
    > USA with really good artists on the roster. These events never occur in
    the
    > UK that regularly.
    >
    > One grumble I've got about the UK music scene the way it takes so long for
    > dnb records to come out. After the dubplate starts getting played, it
    takes
    > about a year for the record to get released, and that's becoming a very
    > common occurrence. The dillinja L.P has been delayed for two years and
    still
    > isn't out. It took about two years for the Peshay L.P to come out and the
    > Underwolves L.P is only finally getting a release now after first being
    > played in about 1999. I know that with the latter two there were label
    > problems but in general it is common to wait about a year for a 12" single
    > to get a release after it is first played.
    >
    > Does this happen often elsewhere and with other music scenes?
    >
    > Anyone who likes the jazzy dnb stuff should check out anything on Fabio's
    > 'Creative Source' label. 'Class of 76' by Solid State on the 'Liquid Funk'
    > compilation is excellent and has a kind of live sound (even though it
    > isn't). Also 'Just the Way I Feel' by John B is very good and Peshay has
    > released his best tunes on this label.
    >
    > Carl
    >



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