Imagine a world without Drum & Bass music.

[tastebud]

cyantific is teh

 

[Orang Utan]

For me it was 1996 - 2001 when the best stuff came out

Aye, which is why I could live without it now - tis the least exciting dance music genre after breaks

 

[northernhord]

Aye, which is why I could live without it now - tis the least exciting dance music genre after breaks

It just seemed to degenerate into gung ho rave friendly shite for want of a better term, I will always keep me old Doc Scott/Kemistry and Storm/Gangakru/Krust/Jon B stuff

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Aye, which is why I could live without it now - tis the least exciting dance music genre after breaks

There's some brilliant electro-glitchy-breaks out there. Try Si Begg, Son of the Electric Ghost or Tipper. Most of the really popular stuff these days is pretty chod

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Aye, which is why I could live without it now - tis the least exciting dance music genre after breaks

yawns

 

[Biddlybee]

Can get it here: http://www.future-music.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25889&highlight=cyantific

Just listening to this and it's not doing much for me
D&B is my music of choice for dancing... I'm just a bit out of touch

 

[Orang Utan]

There's some brilliant electro-glitchy-breaks out there. Try Si Begg, Son of the Electric Ghost or Tipper. Most of the really popular stuff these days is pretty chod

I don't really think of that as breaks - tis electro and not the stuff that some people call electro -

 

[Orang Utan]

It just seemed to degenerate into gung ho rave friendly shite for want of a better term, I will always keep me old Doc Scott/Kemistry and Storm/Gangakru/Krust/Jon B stuff

It all went downhill after this:

I'll shut up now cos I haven't listened to it properly for a while and I usually go into the other room after 10 minutes when I hear it out these days

 

[topaz]

i don't WANT to imagine a world without dnb ta!!!

 

[DrRingDing]

For me it was 1996 - 2001 when the best stuff came out

1993 to 1996 for me, I think.

 

[Erich Zann]

Some guy did a poncey media project where he does a video documentary about the history of the amen break.

it's well "up his own arse" but it's worth a look:

http://nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html

I don't think it's poncey. Pretty informative, guy knows his stuff. Thought the idea of the record spinning althe way through was original. namedrops Squarepusher as well.

 

[Dask]

It all went downhill after this:

I'll shut up now cos I haven't listened to it properly for a while and I usually go into the other room after 10 minutes when I hear it out these days

Aye! That is a classic as where all the other releases on Metalheadz at that time Ed Rush - Skylab, Peshay - Predator, Optical - To Shape The Future etc

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I don't think it's poncey. Pretty informative, guy knows his stuff. Thought the idea of the record spinning althe way through was original. namedrops Squarepusher as well.

Is that the one when the bloke can't say 'Original Nuttah'?

 

[tarannau]

Aye, which is why I could live without it now - tis the least exciting dance music genre after breaks

I think the sands of time will be very kind to Drum and Bass. The first predominantly black music to form in the 'rave' scene, fusing all kinds of influences, arguably the only truly original dance genre to stem entirely from the UK. It's exported well - watching Brazilians take to drum and bass was a real experience for example - and its studio techniques have had a real influence for years. All that post-Goldie timestretching for a start, not to mention some of the world's best scratch and competition DJs taking note.

In many ways, like dub, it suffers from being a remixers dream, critical respectability and being torn in too many directions. At the heart of it, it's a dancefloor music, no matter how many concept albums A&R men have sought to produce.

OK, so the latest big tunes may not be my bag. But if you had told me, on those early days, just how big it would grow I doubt I'd have believed you. Its growth is quite a proud achievement really

 

[Orang Utan]

I agree with all of the above - just don't get excited by it anymore

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Just listening to this and it's not doing much for me
D&B is my music of choice for dancing... I'm just a bit out of touch

* that it's doing nowt for you* Give it another go - go on you will!

 

[The_Reverend_M]

I don't really think of that as breaks - tis electro and not the stuff that some people call electro -

Electro-Breaks to my mind - you say tomato etc

 

[Biddlybee]

* that it's doing nowt for you* Give it another go - go on you will!

I've not stopped it... will see it through to the end. Recognise a few tunes in the middle Maybe I'm more of a jungle gal

 

[top_biller]

I keep forgetting how much I like jungle - I was in a shoe shop recently and the J Majik remix of Space Invader came on, it was impossible not stand there nodding my head looking vacantly at the same pair of shoes for 5 minutes.

I keep meaning to do a retrospective mix, all my records are from the 93 - 98 era, but I suppose there's a subliminal reason why they're kept in my bedroom rather than next to my decks in the lounge.

Metropolis....they don't make 'em like that anymore.

*takes drag on pipe*

 

[Orang Utan]

Can get it here: http://www.future-music.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25889&highlight=cyantific

The tracklisting there doesn't look to bad - nice mix of old and new - but I hate the Hospitality stuff like High Contrast - I think it's horrible

 

[118118]

Double post.

 

[118118]

I don't think it is as good as it was early 2000. Couldn't say much about before that, as i don't own much. Tho i still have a fairly good time out to it, and i can't see a reason why it won't improve.

 

[geminisnake]

My world is without drum & bass music.

As is mine, and it's just lovely thanks

 

[northernhord]

1993 to 1996 for me, I think.

I wasnt so keen on the really early stuff, except for a grooverider cd that I still have to this day called 'Alive'

 

[saucisson]

until I came on this board I didn't know drum and bass still existed...I thought it died when bukem took it all coffee table and roni size and goldie dissapeared up thier own arses. Not really my bag but I have a few killer drum and bass mixes in the sack....ganja crew's no diggity remix instantly springs to mind.

 

[rutabowa]

The first predominantly black music to form in the 'rave' scene

what about house and techno!!

 

[Moggy]

It would be like a world without bacon sandwiches...

 

[muser]

V

Horrible isn't it?

For me it's the older stuff that really does it like nothing else whatsoever can.

I hate to even think about being around at a time before it came along.

It's so good I am often suprised that it's still legal.

I hear you.

 

[118118]

I like logical progressions, having recently listened to it again - I didn't at first.

 

[bruise]

I don't think it's poncey. Pretty informative, guy knows his stuff. Thought the idea of the record spinning althe way through was original. namedrops Squarepusher as well.

"finds several ways to diss Squarepusher" is not the same as "namedrops S":

"a chin-stroking art crowd took the amen as their own in the name of - some might say - a sort of high-brow posturing. they proceded to push the levels of absurdity with its use, really tweakng the arrangements beyond the point of danceability and synchopation and into a realm of pure fetishisation and self-indulgence ... here's Squarepusher"

cheeky fucker

agreed - cool visual (the dubplate he'd recorded the audio onto) and interesting history of a seminal break.