LTJ Bukem - what's he like now?
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DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
So whatever happened to MC Conrad then?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I think the problem for folks like Bukem and other d'n'b producers around that time were that people were looking for new avenues to work down. His 'Horizons' is clearly still a classic but it started this dodgy new genre. Many of these new avenues, it turns out, were perhaps barren paths. Who can forget the blind alleys of 'tech-step.'
Tech Step was the don music , I remember the excitment I felt when I first heard the Reese bassline in the Trace & Ed Rush remix of T Power's Mutant Jazz. (not mutant revisited, the first remix)
Good times.
Talking of MC Conrad, I've got this amazing mix of Doc Scott in Berlin from 96 with Conrad rapping over the top, some amazing tunes on there, some of them never came out either.
Good times.
Talking of MC Conrad, I've got this amazing mix of Doc Scott in Berlin from 96 with Conrad rapping over the top, some amazing tunes on there, some of them never came out either.
ska invita
back on the other side
The Jumpup/Intelligent split is pathetic - cant believe your still having the argument. We're all one big happy (hardcore) family - to think otherwise is to miss the whole point of the scene...
Flavour
hang the bankers
Drum'n'bass is boring, its like a controlled experiment at school in science where instead of having one factor differing in each run for a "fair test" (or a genre of music) its just different Yr7s doing the same fucking experiment and getting nigh on identical results. WE NEED A VARIABLE! It can non-repetetive breaks (like the so called "choppage" of Equinox, breakage & co), non-repetetive basslines (like ultra-self-fellating "X"-core) or whatever, just something which changes a lot, and all the time
niksativa said:
yeh, tell that to a bunch of munted jump-up fans when you drop some Bukem or whatever. Happy family my arse
skyscraper101
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I've followed Buckem for years.
'Logical Progression Vol.1' is one of my all time favorite intelligent drum and bass albums and completely deserves all the positive credit it gets. Genuinely creating something interesting back in the day. Synth pads, ambience, bliss-out, chilling tunes. Completely 4am vibe. His best - bar none.
I've got the progression sessions album too with MC Conrad. Its good but I think MC Conrad can get a bit tiresome after a few tracks - I prefer the tunes without his voice getting in the way.
I thought less of his more recent stuff - I still have 'Earth Vol.3' on triple vinyl which I wouldn't reccomend - more like self indulgent funk grooves than dnb. Well worth avoiding.
However I did like the 'Journey Inwards' album he did more recently. Less spacey drum and bass synth pads but well produced chill out grooves.
ETA: I don't know what he'd be like live to be honest. I've had no real intention of going to see him. He seems more suited to chill out than dancing IMHO.
'Logical Progression Vol.1' is one of my all time favorite intelligent drum and bass albums and completely deserves all the positive credit it gets. Genuinely creating something interesting back in the day. Synth pads, ambience, bliss-out, chilling tunes. Completely 4am vibe. His best - bar none.
I've got the progression sessions album too with MC Conrad. Its good but I think MC Conrad can get a bit tiresome after a few tracks - I prefer the tunes without his voice getting in the way.
I thought less of his more recent stuff - I still have 'Earth Vol.3' on triple vinyl which I wouldn't reccomend - more like self indulgent funk grooves than dnb. Well worth avoiding.
However I did like the 'Journey Inwards' album he did more recently. Less spacey drum and bass synth pads but well produced chill out grooves.
ETA: I don't know what he'd be like live to be honest. I've had no real intention of going to see him. He seems more suited to chill out than dancing IMHO.
LDR
kiwitanga
It was one of the first DnB albums I ever brought and a nice gentle introduction to the genre.Dubversion said:coffee-table drum'n'bass - what a good idea THAT was.
I still like it and listen to it. It's nice with a line of K while chilling at home after a big, big night. I know you won't agree.
I'd say it's not that great to dance to but sometimes I want something I can just float away with when I listen. It's by no means a great album but it's not a bad one either IMHO.
everyone seems to be on about stuff he was doing in 1997 tho
surely he can't still be doing that
i had a couple of the Earth box sets cos they were selling them on vinyl for a tenner, kind of ok, but a bit......
to be fair to bukem, the reason that 'intelligent' drumnbass went shite was cos so many clones came out. logical progression had had some amazing funk breaks on, and conrad was ace on it as well
surely he can't still be doing that
i had a couple of the Earth box sets cos they were selling them on vinyl for a tenner, kind of ok, but a bit......
to be fair to bukem, the reason that 'intelligent' drumnbass went shite was cos so many clones came out. logical progression had had some amazing funk breaks on, and conrad was ace on it as well
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
JTG said:Not been paying attention for the last two years then?
nah, think i have, but i came to bristol in 97 for the d n b, and was treated to reprazent at lakota at student union, breakbeat era at the fleece, and a choice of four top nights to go to each week. Now it's a battle to find much in any one week, especially now working. There still seems to be bits going on, but it's very far from what it was. The krust style movement to dark d n b a few years back did little for me as well. More than happy to be corrected tho...
Well I'm happy enough with what's provided by dissident, PRANK and other assorted misfits at Lakota and the Swan tbh. Admittedly it depends how you like your dnb (dissident in particular have strayed well into breakcore/gabba territory recently and PRANK are more ragga orientated) but there's always what goes on at Timbuk2 on many nights of the week and the regular more commercial dnb nights at the Academy if you can't get enough of paying £12 a go for line ups reading Mampi Swift, Friction, Randall zzzzzzzzzz
Depends what you're looking for but although I'm a regular visitor to London that's more to do with where many of my social circle are. If they were all here I'd never leave Bristol
Depends what you're looking for but although I'm a regular visitor to London that's more to do with where many of my social circle are. If they were all here I'd never leave Bristol
nah, it's all about doing some renaissance polyphonic choral/jungletek mashups
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