Why jungle will never go mainstream!

mark givens (markeg@hotmail.com)
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 13:55:34 PDT


Dear List":
There is a lot of talk about jungle; To quote Bono from the Live at
red rocks album", maybe.. maybe too much talk." Some people think it
and techno will be the next big thing . This is never going to happen
much as i like Jungle. heres why 1
Too fast- yanks will never buy anything that goes at 160 Bpms. in fact
the peak is about 135 and thats fast for the avg radio station.
Dazzy Dukes( bass) is up there at that level but higher than that, mix
show maybe ;top ten never. 2
lacks songs: Inner City life almost had a song but that as close as it
gets uin junle unless they remix brandy. Lacks
regional/racial base- house has a core folowing gays , people from
chicago; miami bass has a black/southern core; rap had a core before
it blew up. Jungle? its from the U.K. and in the states its a white rave
thing. A base gives you an irreducible core that will keep the stuff
viab;le as it goes in and out of fashion on the charts. Between gold
sincles bass still sells month in month out to its core. Bass will break
big before jungle and stay around. By the way Gangtsa/playya rap,
with its southern/west coast core will always be with us on some
level theyve even got their own magazine s and indie labels. This stuff
will never die like it or not. My own thing has been to
take jungle production methods chopped breaks, bass hits, stuttered drum
and rolls, add party chants a la gogo and bass and make slow jungle at
120-135 bpms . By the way there is a Baltimore scene centered around
the Paradox club and v103 mix shows that is pretty dope. the songs are
repetitve the chants sex and drug inspired but its fresh . DOO DOO
Brown!!!! markeg@hotmail.com

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