there are ways to get around this, EG the Silver Blade/Soul Beat Runna break. but as I said to @dilbert1 ragga jungle was pretty much just-in-time cash in music. Not a value judgment, it's how it is. The artistic/studio rats won that
the soul beat runna break was constructed by Boymerang from the break up. It has some extremely edited miniscule amens in there in the mix amongst other microsampled breaks and edited drum machine hits, but they are nigh on unrecognisable because it was essentially synthesised as something new.
I remember a doa interview where he said it took him a week or so to create it.
This was completely not the ragga jungle ethos at all, where tracks would be finished in a day or two, if that.
"This is about the lack of music" is a great quote from Nico Sykes.
Would that it had been heeded more...
"This is about the lack of music" is a great quote from Nico Sykes.
Would that it had been heeded more...
?? what is the context for that quote im not familiar
The VIP was nice
?? what is the context for that quote im not familiar
I think the more this new stuff departs from the template of old jungle the more i rate itI take it back, this bangs and has been getting played daily. Spiritually junglistic but not in an obstinate ‘tru skool’ way, its very young and sporty. That move with the time-stretched snare at 3:12 is amazing, should’ve stuck it in the first half as well. And I never care for these faffy middle bits, but its a top contemporary tune AFAIC.
what are your favourite post-98 bohemian jazzman liquid tracks Simon?
This is the thing about a lot of exciting moments in dance music, isn't it. The thing that makes them exciting is the tension between basically incompatible elements, which also makes them inherently unstable. You think you're being clever by rejecting the bad one and then when you finally get just the pure good stuff you realize it's kind of uninspiring on its own.I suppose, though, from '98 onwards I'd be equally turned off by the overtly anti-musical and the overtly musical directions coming out of drum and bass.