Client Eastwood
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Art Blakey - Pretty sure Ive heard a version of A Night In Tunisia where you can hear him all the way thru.
Idris Muhammad gets well excited too.
questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?
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Art Blakey - Pretty sure Ive heard a version of A Night In Tunisia where you can hear him all the way thru.
Idris Muhammad gets well excited too.
reeltoreel
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Coz you used to hide your contraband liquor in the legs of your capacious boots, as a smuggler/piratical type. The term came to be applied to any kind of contraband, including illegal copies of records.
That's the usual explanation. Seems a bit pat, though...
That's the usual explanation. Seems a bit pat, though...
reeltoreel
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Oh - George Benson and Oscar Peterson both scat/sing along while they play.
George follows his guitar solos pretty much note-for-note! Maybe they added it in later...
George follows his guitar solos pretty much note-for-note! Maybe they added it in later...
who's this girl?
it's not lisa maffia is it?
ninjaman used to work as a road sweeper in kingston
not really, it's a type of gun
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
What exactly is nu-breakz, and (why) is it terrible?
Client Eastwood
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the spelling, anything with Nu-'X' is a bad thing. Nu-'X'z is worzer. I heard the term but likewise never exactly worked out what is means. Is it drum'n'bass-lite ?
john eden
male pale and stale
"tracky" breakbeat techno from the late 90s, like bigbeat but with all the fun taken out of it. Quite serious.
Freq Nasty, Rennie Pilgrem etc are some names to check, iirc.
matt b
Indexing all opinion
go and listen to adam freeland. should answer your questions.
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droid
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LOL. its a 12 gauge automatic shotgun. Also the name of a 90s steelie and cleevie riddim.
Sounds like a bad thing until you consider that bigbeat with the 'fun' in it = Fatboy Slim.
If ever there was a genre that could be described as 'd+b at the wrong speed' its nu-breakz.
Still, they had the right idea - bass heavy breakbeat at 130ish bpm... Botchitt and Scarper is the label to check.
matt b
Indexing all opinion
yikes, droid!
i felt it took all the bad bits of post-pulp fiction coffee table d'n'b, slowed it down and made it more mid-rangey and cluttered.
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droid
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Youre not totally wrong there. The Tonic and T-Power stuff isn't bad at all though. The main problem with it all was the stiffness of the sound...
I do have a sneaking fondness for some of it though as we were involved in a breakbeat club in the late 90's and would play the more wacky bits of Nu-breaks along with old skool hardcore, 130s electronica, D+B at 33
and the odd bit of garage or techno... long before dubstep came along it acted as a kind of DJ glue for other 130ish type muzak... as I said - they had the right idea.
I do have a sneaking fondness for some of it though as we were involved in a breakbeat club in the late 90's and would play the more wacky bits of Nu-breaks along with old skool hardcore, 130s electronica, D+B at 33
and the odd bit of garage or techno... long before dubstep came along it acted as a kind of DJ glue for other 130ish type muzak... as I said - they had the right idea.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Ta folks, that makes sense, will look into the suggested stuff at some point when I feel I can take it.
I'd happily admit to liking a fair ammount of big-beat, although I'm not sure how much of it is a 'nostalgia for my youth' sort of thing.
I'd happily admit to liking a fair ammount of big-beat, although I'm not sure how much of it is a 'nostalgia for my youth' sort of thing.
john eden
male pale and stale
I refer you to: http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/03/bad-motherfucker-on-two-turntables-go-off/
Freq Nasty's "boomin back atcha" was alright. I had a botchit and scarper comp which was passable.
Shut Up and Dance sort've had their dalliance with it as well.
Overall it was shite, however. I am happy to be convinced otherwise, but consider this unlikely.
Client Eastwood
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Does Adam Freeland = Adam F ? Cos I though a couple of his were OK (Adam F that is)
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Botchit and Scarper is a good name. They don't sound like they should be serious.