Re: Nubreakz (was re: Why Acid? Part II)


Jim Dier (threedueces@hotmail.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:07:04 PDT



Nu-Skool Breaks. Some good shit IMHO. (By the way, what the hell is YMMV?!
  I looks yawnish in nature.) The baselines are sick. Reminds me of early
DnB, slower, more experimental, yet kickin' enough to keep the floor really
going. At Burning Man some dude(DJ Usal? I think) was killin' it with this
shit, and ever since I've got hooked. There is a freeness and
unpredictability of it, as opposed to the same builds and breakdowns that
mar bigbeat. And a tweakiness that is definitely underground. Like
everything, you have to go through and find the good, but it is out there.
A seriously fresh, kickin' sound, just starting out, and I would not dismiss
it so easily.

Electric Kingdom is a comp on Language records. Only a four track sampler
in out on vinyl, unfortunately. (when will these record companies learn!?)
Excellent shit from the likes of Sons of Mecha, T-Power, and Buckfunk 3000.
TCR also has some great shit, Freq Nasty is happenin' (check his remix of
Westbam's "Beatbox Rocker"). I also think there's a Studio !K7 comp on the
way, and he has his (debut?) out on Botchit and Scarper.

>
>At 8:58 AM -0700 10/22/99, Mark Turner wrote:
> >I'm not a big fan of nubreakz. I like a little more melody with my
> >beats. Some of it is OK, if it's funky enough or there's a clever
> >use of sample material. But in general I see it as an evolution of
> >the "big beat" sound (Chems, Propellerheads, etc.), which I never
> >liked much either. YMMV.
>
>I've only heard Botchit & Scraper's _United Breakz Nation_, which has some
>nice stuff, & Moving Shadow's _Professor Tsungs' Art of Science Funktion_,
>which is pretty killer. The movement seems like an outlet for d&b
>producers to explore lower tempos & other breaks than "Amen"; in other
>words, I have trouble telling it apart from any good, creative breakbeat as
>done by trans-tempo genii such as Hive & DJ Wally/Pish Posh. It def.
>sounds somewhat like Big Beat, but I think they probably did well to pass
>on "Mid-Size Beat" as a tag! I'm probably more fond of Big Beat than Mark,
>choosing to think of it as the better acts on Wall of Sound & stuff like
>Lionrock, which is admittedly a slight stretch. I refer to the Chemicals
>as "Stadium Rock Techno" in the privacy of my own home, as they tend to
>annoy the fuck out of me.
>
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> Jason Witherspoon
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