I've wondered how receptive the drum n bass audience
would be to some of this broken beat material.
Obviously, a lot of drum n bass producers (especially
in the Reinforced camp) have gone on to make broken
beat.
Tuesday night I went to Substance @ The Knitting
Factory, LA to see Red Devil spin. Most of the night
the djs were spinning drum n bass, and Red Devil ended
the night with a really nice broken beat set. I was a
little surprised that one of the guest djs started to
get an attitude in the first 5 seconds of Red Devil's
set, simply because he wasn't playing dnb. They
didn't even wait for the beats to kick in before they
went to their friends complaining it was house. That
first tune was by Domu and when the beats dropped that
very same dj proclaimed "oh my god I love these
beats". She probably felt like an idiot, because even
her friends seemed to loved what RD was playing. The
crowd gave a pretty mixed reaction. Obviously some of
the kiddies left because they wanted hard dark dnb,
but a lot of people stuck around and really dug it.
It was good to see all the positive reactions from the
crowd, and the applauds.
Well sorry to bore you all...
Cheers,
-Will
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