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Just heard from kode. he opened his dmz set with my remix of Loser. Wish I coulda seen that!
you can, i videoed it from the DJ booth for you...
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Just heard from kode. he opened his dmz set with my remix of Loser. Wish I coulda seen that!
Absolutely cannot wait to see it!you can, i videoed it from the DJ booth for you...
yeah, on another note John Tejada has been playing Roska tunes in his sets
I seem to be sending out big-ups to individual posts a lot at the moment, but I'm going to it again here: excellent post.
I was skeptical about this stuff to begin with, but Marcus Nasty's radio sets in particular have really converted me.
Genuine question, because I don't know... but was there much continuum talk when actual drum and bass producers like Dego, Seiji, Domu, Photek started making House? Seems there's a much stronger "continuity of personnel" there.
It was interesting hearing funky on this absolutely MASSIVE system, tunes like that Xylophone Crazy Cousinz tune sounded completely different and pumped up. Funky came through loud and clear even with the bass so prominently placed, whereas garage seemed to lose something to me, its percussive intricacies being swamped and anchored a little by a weighty sub (dubstep sounded absolutely perfect - reminding me of how dubstep is soundsystem music first and foremost). This might have had something to do with Lil Silva playing off CDs - at one or two points the mid range was seriously savaging my ears, just as seems to do at FWD when DJs play off CDs...
Good question. However i don't see this as a continuity of personnel relevent to funky since those guys aren't really involved with funky at all to my knowledge. That is not to say it's not a mini continuum of its own of course. Beyond at points did put me in mind of Sunday Co-ops at times.
Was there talk of the continuum when these guys started making house? I dunno but i doubt it. I remember reading that Photek's attempts to make house didn't go down too well at the time? Dego and Seiji make broken beat rather than straight up house and broken beat seems like a little, somewhat insular genre tangential to the main flow of the continuum and mocked by many for its self-contained tastefulness (not me).
Good question. However i don't see this as a continuity of personnel relevent to funky since those guys aren't really involved with funky at all to my knowledge. That is not to say it's not a mini continuum of its own of course. Beyond at points did put me in mind of Sunday Co-ops at times.
Was there talk of the continuum when these guys started making house? I dunno but i doubt it. I remember reading that Photek's attempts to make house didn't go down too well at the time? Dego and Seiji make broken beat rather than straight up house and broken beat seems like a little, somewhat insular genre tangential to the main flow of the continuum and mocked by many for its self-contained tastefulness (not me).
Good question. However i don't see this as a continuity of personnel relevent to funky since those guys aren't really involved with funky at all to my knowledge. That is not to say it's not a mini continuum of its own of course. Beyond at points did put me in mind of Sunday Co-ops at times.
Was there talk of the continuum when these guys started making house? I dunno but i doubt it. I remember reading that Photek's attempts to make house didn't go down too well at the time? Dego and Seiji make broken beat rather than straight up house and broken beat seems like a little, somewhat insular genre tangential to the main flow of the continuum and mocked by many for its self-contained tastefulness (not me).
It just strikes me as odd that people are digging for connections between Funky and Jungle, particularly from the "personnel" side. Seems to be a determination to prove it's part of the HCC in order to what... prove it's OK to like it? I'm not sure.
People are waiting for "dark" Funky. But records like Dego's "This Ain't Tom & Jerry" / "Hands Off The Controls" are already out there and are arguably more "nuum" than anything the Funky scene has thrown up so far. Where's the line drawn? What's the real litmus test? The Rinse FM studio?
Maybe that's the crux of thing - the hhc is great as an observational tool but rubbish when it starts to become proscriptive in trying to say what paths musics should and should not follow (i'm sure this has been said in the pages of debate...)
kode 9's right as well, bassline is shit.