Re: Review: Earth 4 (Good Looking)

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 22:41:28 MET DST

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    Gen Kanai wrote:
    >
    > At 10:09 PM 7/31/00 -0700, Elson Trinidad wrote:
    >
    > SNIP

    > Yeah, blame Aphrodite. Tech-step or whatever they call it. I call it
    > shite. ;)

    Actually Aphrodite's stuff is more melodic and musical than the rest of the
    "buzzsaw beats."
     
    > Is anyone on the Acid-Jazz list getting into UK Garage or 2 Step? Artful
    > Dodger, Dreem Team, MJ Cole, etc.? Everyone is talking about the new MJ
    > Cole album on Talkin' Loud like it has already won the Mercury Music Award
    > prize...keep your eye out for that one.

    I recently got an Akai MPC2000XL sampler/drum machine...and...for the past few
    days
    I've been building drumkits and programming...2-Step Beats...(uh oh!)

    > Breakbeat Science doesn't carry much of it (the new
    > Revolution Magazine says that they do but I was there yesterday and they
    > had all of maybe 20 pieces.)

    What about some of the more house-oriented record stores in NYC?

    > This is a huge problem for BBS, imho. They're insuring their genre's
    > demise. With a retail operation that is so focused on a specific genre,
    > and almost no expansion into nu-skool breaks or UK Garage, Breakbeat
    > Science is betting it all on drum'n'bass.

    True, but I don't blame them for that. *WE* can make the connection between dnb
    and Garage, as well as hip-hop, bossa nova, rare groove, etc. But I don't think
    they can.
    For people who aren't open to diverse forms of music, it's hard for them to get
    into other things.
     
    > >In 3-5 years just watch, drum n bass will (d)evolve into nothing more than
    > >"tech-punk."
    >
    > Hasn't that already happened?

    Yeah I guess. Or how about "digital heavy metal?"

    Elson

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