yeah exactly. this is kinda missing the point of garage. it's like saying 'i really wish we could have garage without all those urban people and all that multiculturalism.'
most people who think like that have spent the second half of this decade chomping down humble pie once dubstep blew up. 'oh, i didnt really follow garage, i thought it was all commercial and fake-bling bling.'*
*"i made this judgement after seeing Craig David on ToTP once. My internet "friends" on DOA all told me i was right, so i now blame them"
i like new school 2step but it needs to be ruff and rude. people who tepidly bite burial tracks focus on how they think the beat is done and the ambient pads and ignore how dark and deadly their underbelly's are.
Yes but also what is wrong with looking great, why do ppl have to apologise for it?
Spending some of the cash you've worked like a dog to earn during the week etc. I know this can get out of hand etc, withdraw into money spending contests, especially when a stimulant like cokes involved, but another example might be the rather handsome crowds at benji b's deviation nights, all scrubbed up, and togged up, some gorgeous girls etc, compared to a dubstep night where quite often blim holes are a badge of honour.
This is all probably good material for another thread, but a weird undercurrent of the numm or whatever is the links in clothing, i mean clothing wise, dubstep's closer to the spirit of rave than garage, some of the raving gear - esp stuff like global hypercolour positivley accentuated the sweatyness of raving, and the same kinda lack of dressing up goes on in dubstep, although you don't get the ladies in tight gym gear, the links thru garage > funky is dressing up again
while in a way jungle > grime has a kind of downcast militancy to it, fatigues, vests boots for jungle, hoods up all the way for grime.
