sadmanbarty
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It may well be the ultimate hardcore tune but given you make the rules dungeonmaster why ask us?
You lot are much better informed about this stuff than me.
It may well be the ultimate hardcore tune but given you make the rules dungeonmaster why ask us?
Saw this on a jungle ballot, sounds like hardcore to me. I can put it in my hardcore ballot right?
Wow what a year eh
ridiculously good. what always strikes me about hardcore is the breadth of the sampling, makes it incredibly diverse and interesting (prince far i for 'baptized in dub', which would be my own #1 pick, as well as cannibalising playing with knives). and the total lack of care for 'good taste', as was said about Jamaican music culture on another thread here.
Guess you could say this is why jungle became stultified, ultimately, as it was so reggae/dancehall focused. But then, Bukem and Goldie et al brought jazz and techno influences into it, which for many was pretty much the death-blow as far as jungle goes.
I'm never sure about the technological determinism thing, particularly as regards software. There's no reason people running Cubase can't turn off snap-to-grid, bung in a load of samples, and resist the temptation to compress and EQ and layer the shit out of everything if they prefer the results they get that way.To me something has really been lost with the rise of soft synths and pristine engineering. You've lost that patchwork quality, that willingness to play around with ideas, that breadth of influences that is found in hardcore. Everything seems remorselessly linear and snapped-to-grid.
I'm never sure about the technological determinism thing, particularly as regards software. There's no reason people running Cubase can't turn off snap-to-grid, bung in a load of samples, and resist the temptation to compress and EQ and layer the shit out of everything if they prefer the results they get that way.
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Where there seems to be no influence beyond DNB itself.