Re: Broken Beat beginnings????

From: Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 17:58:59 CEST

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    First time I heard "Transcend Me" my reaction was "Omigosh - best
    broken beat ever". I've calmed down a bit since, but I still rate
    it pretty highly. But then I'm not a DJ and don't have to make a
    business case for liking the records I like. Do all these records
    _have_ to be rated on how well they will work in a club? OK, I know
    there are a lot more DJs on this list than there used to be.

    I have to confess I'm still in two minds about the NSM album - some
    of the tracks are growers, but quite a bit of it I can currently
    take or leave. I'm not blown away by the production, and the tunes
    aren't quite there. Sure, "The Sun" is nice, but take a listen to
    Frank McComb's album for a reality check. No-one's ever going to
    call it cutting edge (be warned - it's kind of easy listening) but
    contains a lot better songs than "The Sun". I can't answer the
    question of how well it'll do on the dancefloor though - you tell
    me.

    On Tuesday, July 31, 2001, at 01:19 AM, Szirtes, Thomas wrote:

    > Quite - actually my biggest problem with "Broken Beat" is that
    > most the tracks sound like one long intro - you are just sitting there
    > waiting for the main break to come in. (especially NSM stuff!)
    >
    > Take for example Afronauts "Transcend Me" that everyone on this list
    > was raving about - it has some funky aspects to that but drop that
    > in most
    > clubs and after about 2 mins into the song you can see the confusion
    > spread across the clubbers faces as they try and groove to it and
    > that's
    > one of the more energetic tracks. (believe me I've done it too)
    > Maybe you have to play it in certain West London clubs for the
    > crowd to get it.
    >
    > Of course there some exceptions - Bugz stuff normally manages to
    > rock it.
    >
    > Controversal comments perhaps?
    >
    > {grimices waiting for backfire}
    >
    >
    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: djessential@webtv.net [mailto:djessential@webtv.net]
    >> Sent: 31 July 2001 00:44
    >> To: antonio@jupiterjazz.org
    >> Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    >> Subject: Re: Broken Beat beginnings????
    >>
    >>
    >> antonio says: how do you dance to broken beat?
    >> you put your left foot in, you put your right foot out, and
    >> shake it all
    >> about. :P
    >>
    >> Naw, you just groove with the beats & bass, like a bunch of stoned
    >> nutters. ;)
    >>
    >



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