A lot, the vast majority, of the music in your rehabilitate the zfi thread is cartoonish, which I like a great deal. It's got a sense of fun. It's deliberately ridiculous and as much is diametrically opposed to the Enemies of Joy.
Like that one that goes Rotterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam is hilarious. I love it. It's life-affirming. It's a million miles from the po-face metalheadz aesthetic.
In the right mood I could get into it ('artcore' metalheadz etc) but you have to understand it is my role to react this way. Droid has dedicated an entire thread to trolling me and it would be very rude of me not to play along. It would spoil his fun and everyone else's
hmm yeah i know what you mean. but I'd say that arid stuff works in a mix in the same way that matt jam lamont house doesn't really work on its own. the problem is that sort of barren flavour became the main flavour not one aspect of the panoply. this is why dj mixes are such a great format but very, very easy to abuse.
A lot of my friends felt it was dead in '94. It was a mainstream position. That the ragga thing was overblown and rote.
Dead in 94 is the most insane ahistorical nonsense Ive ever heard. Sales, attendance, mainstream success, quality, inventiveness - all point to the exact opposite conclusion. Things had barely begun in '93.
Alsp disagree with the arty vs ragga vs hardcore paradigm. Artcore was just a brand exercise for deep jungle, which was most jungle that wasnt ragga, and deep jungle grew directly out of the fundamentals - the hardcore approach to sampling.
Voodoo Magic, One Nation, Helter Skelter, Telepathy, Hysteria, World Dance... hundreds of thousands of ravers dancing to jungle in 94. The absolute peak of its popularity.
Yes droid but I am talking about my crowd ie the vanguard not the mainstream. The people who are always seven steps ahead. The people who had switched to garage by '96