I love drum and bass me - it's the best music in the whole world.
I finally picked up a copy of the Roni Size / Reprazent 1997 Mercury Music Prize-winning album "New Forms" and set aside a chunk of time at the end of the evening to kick back with iPod and NTX speaker and make like a jazz-beatnik in an easy chair.
Having made such leaps in the genre with this jazz-inspired style it makes me wonder how it was largely ignored and we fell back into several years of hardstep. Come to think of it drum and bass seems to be collapsing into itself with the recent re-emergence of the amens and we'll soon disappear up our own bottoms in a ragga-jungle fenzy.
I'm not complaining really - I love those amen-break classics and it's good to see bands like Duran Duran Duran putting a new spin on it.
Drum and bass continues to split into new directions every year like a Missile Command MIRV.
5 comments:
Is there something wrong with your clock?
Now I see. It's California time.
When you say that drum and bass has largely been ignored; ignored by whom? Surely not by everyone? Do you mean commercially? Are the radio stations choosing not to play it? There is has has been a massive D&B scene for ages, you just need to submerg yourself in it. I don't think you'll get your Drum and Base thing going on down at Dukes.
Pazzer - Not sure whether it's that I'm registered in Cali or whether it's Blogger based in Cali. Will look into it.
Kaff - What I was saying was that the jazzy style that Roni Size championed in his New Forms album was largely ignored and instead we just got a whole load more of the Hardstep style of DnB. No, I think it's pretty darn huge as a genre and has made it's impact worldwide. Not bad for what started as a fairly localised UK scene.
Speaking for the Britney demographic, I say: Drum and what now?
Just kidding. With the right tutor, even the least musically inclined can come to appreciate the genre. Without the right tutor, it's hard to appreciate much of anything.
Oh - and I think the blog wants to be on California time. Most good things are in California, after all. Time, etc etc. ;)
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