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From: "Dave Haynes" <gvcontact@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "Dave Haynes" <gvcontact@hotmail.com>
To: "Acid Jazz List" <acid-jazz@UCSD.Edu>
Subject: Re: more broken beat inquiries
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:29:11 +0100
As long as there is no broken beat vol.1 style compilation.
LOL!!!
This puts the
music into a category - which could come into fashion then everyone would
drop it when the latest thing comes along.
Maybe it's selfish on my part, but I don't want everybody and their mama on
this shit. I'd hate to see it get played out too quickly. I do however
want the artists to get their due recognition and $$$$$$. One point I have
is that I dont think this stuff is accessable enough for the masses. It
doesn't appeal to the age group that generally consume all the
dance/electronic music. The majority of 17 year olds are not feeling nu
jazz music. I mean your not going to find many young people bumpin Bembe
Segue, New Sector, or even Seiji for that matter. IMO, it appeals more to
the person who really expects a lot from the music. You have to be well
educated on jazz, hip hop, and dance shit to get it (or really know good
shit when you hear it). The majority of people don't even know it exists.
But say Drum n Bass or Jungle (which Dego pioneered as well) and any young
person will know what your talking about.
By the way, did anyone happen to read the latest article from XLR8R with IG
& Dego? Guess they ARE considered the leaders of this whole thing. Dego
has been the #1 musician/producer on my list since I heard Two Pages in 98
and IG since I found this newer stuff last year (thanks to the web). One
point Dego made was that the styles change too much for a lot of people to
catch on. If you look at the west london sound, its all very different.
Saying Broken Beat means a hell of a lot because the style IS constantly
changing, the songs DO NOT sound similar. Plus there are often different
combinations of musicians on the tracks so there's always a new sound. My
bet is that more people will see as time goes by. It reminds me of this
documentary I saw on SLAM. I think it was Saul or someone from the New York
team that said something like "We can just show them the new. Let them see
where things are going". Whether the mass of dance music, jazz music, or
hip hop buyers take note of the new is another thing.
PEace.
Oh and here's the link..
http://www.xlr8r.com/issue/current/story1/index.html
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