Recent content by Naphta

Seems like a simple enouigh solution, doesn't t? Personally, that's what I'm at.. but I had trouble persuading other like-minded producers to do the same - the felt that such a move would finally seperate them from the drum n bass scene and its ready-made audience - a scene they hope to somehow...

Ahh, 'breakage'!!! Yeah, there was much discussion and agonising over genre names over on the d+b resistance HQ forum (Subvert Central) a year or two ago... I argued that as with the drum n bass/ happy hardcore split in 94, another split would be a good and necessary thing... and that a separate...

What about the Breakage remix of Doc Scott's 'Here Come the Drumz'? The one that got him in loads of shit in London? Kinda on that dark futuristic tip I would've thought... of course, in general, Breakage's big Jungle-source inspiration is roots reggae rather than hardcore or rave. I know what...

Narrr, I totally dug Joker up until the latter day releases... lots of the earlier stuff was excellent, but that deliberate singularity of intent - that rollin focus - got kinda stupefied once the beats started solidifying into the minimal 2-step format.. much like Bristol or Ganja Cru/True...

Yeah, good call..! I haven't heard too much of his new stuff yet, but it's a welcome return to the fray. I hope he doesn't divide his attention solely between self-consciously retro Amen mash-ups and 2005 Wobble though.... there's nothing worse than hearing people do that token gesture retro...

Good point. I'm not sure, but I suspect that d+b had moved into its industrial phase (techstep, neurofunk) before that stuff has a chance to catch on in the U.S..? The active marketing of cheesy d+b MCs at the ineternational market has only begun in earnest fairly recently, and I reckon a lot of...

Very much so. As the essential framework upon which tunes were built became more and more standardised (intro, drop, build-up, breakdown, roll-out etc.), drum n bass began to reduce its interaction with other music genres - to limit it to a a kind of stylistic borrowing of technique - for...

Big up... :) haven't put out anything in a while but I'm working on loads of new stuff... just disregarding most d+b c. 2005 and trying to make stuff that reflects all the amazing shit that first influenced me 10 years ago... everything from the more self-consciously 'musical' tunes from Goldie...

Thelast decent tracks Dillinja released were 'Jah' (nothing to do with the Goldie track he co-produced) and 'Three Drops' on an EP for Chronic about 3 years ago - both merely alright and notable only for the fact that they weren't horrible and were somewhat Junglists in vibe by comparison with...

:) One tries! I went through a stage of having all this out with die-hard nu-skool fans on forums such as DOA and DnB Arena for a couple of years. I really really wanted to bring it all out into the open especially - as so many people in the scene seemed to have capitulated to the new logic by...

Sub bass IS more ineffable, and therefore harder to quantify - which in turn makes it harder to mass-produce, market and sell - especially to the whiter rock/trance crowd that got into d+b from 97 on. Mid-range, by contrast, is IMO the most immediately arresting of the frequency ranges and...