>From: leterel <leterel@yahoo.com>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Red Devil "Substance" @ Knitting Factory
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:26:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I've wondered how receptive the drum n bass audience
>would be to some of this broken beat material.
>Obviously, a lot of drum n bass producers (especially
>in the Reinforced camp) have gone on to make broken
>beat.
>
>Tuesday night I went to Substance @ The Knitting
>Factory, LA to see Red Devil spin. Most of the night
>the djs were spinning drum n bass, and Red Devil ended
>the night with a really nice broken beat set. I was a
>little surprised that one of the guest djs started to
>get an attitude in the first 5 seconds of Red Devil's
>set, simply because he wasn't playing dnb. They
>didn't even wait for the beats to kick in before they
>went to their friends complaining it was house. That
>first tune was by Domu and when the beats dropped that
>very same dj proclaimed "oh my god I love these
>beats". She probably felt like an idiot, because even
>her friends seemed to loved what RD was playing. The
>crowd gave a pretty mixed reaction. Obviously some of
>the kiddies left because they wanted hard dark dnb,
>but a lot of people stuck around and really dug it.
>It was good to see all the positive reactions from the
>crowd, and the applauds.
Word, I really like these beats, any tracklist from the show?
Also here, dnb has a somewhat "fanatical" following; if it doesnt have that
machinegun drum pushed to +6, forget it. what the hell is dark step
anyway???
But you do have to admit that these beats, chopped, sliced and diced,
can be tricky to follow, espectially for people not liking to hear something
new; In a lot of ways it really reminds *me* of hiphop.
Its just a progessive of drum and bass anyway. No surprise that lots of old
junglists are making the freshest music now.
later all
Richard
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