Benny Bunter
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should've been more of that type of thing i think,
There was! Tons of it.
should've been more of that type of thing i think,
that's right. there's a kind of politesse encoded into broken beat. a notting hill idea of cool.
a restraint and a complacent suavity
ach! (lee fagan) plays a lot of it on his show.
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=14126
Well there were some connections with broken beat (that signature apple clattery beat was ripped off wholesale from a bugz in the attic tune iirc, but it was originally built as a grime tune though) but I think its a mistake it frame it as funky making some kind of conscious effort to try and 'redeem' broken beat.
There was! Tons of it.
and of course names like 67 (as i had explained to me on here) are literally about place
drill doesn't seem to be as imaginatively removed from the streets as grime was - the aesthetic of the beats is sometimes dramatic, but in a quite restrained way ... it's a bit like comparing mobb deep to wu tang - in that mobb deep's music SOUNDS LIKE queensbridge streets, like rain-drenched (cliche cliche cliche), whereas Wu Tang's sounds like kung fu meets noir...
all the bleak pianos in drill probably have a linage to mobb deep somewhere down the line.
was gonna stick this on but all the soundcloud links are dead
Well there were some connections with broken beat (that signature apple clattery beat was ripped off wholesale from a bugz in the attic tune iirc, but it was originally built as a grime tune though) but I think its a mistake it frame it as funky making some kind of conscious effort to try and 'redeem' broken beat.
Also Continental (as in European, not UK) dance music essentially lobotomized both the US and UK scenes.
Trance won. We're all dead and in the balearic heaven.
I get bored and delete stuff all the time. I'll type it out again just for you.
When did it die?
2011
What killed it?
The internet
How did this happen?
The 'scene' migrated online and gradually splintered due to no longer being bound by or requiring specific geographical points of reference or real world interaction. The physical locations that acted as hubs - Blue Note, FWD, DMZ etc - were replaced by sites like Dubstepforum and Dubplate.net which only really lasted for a few years before everything became so sprawling and unfocused that the centre just sort of collapsed and everyone floated off in different directions, engaging with outside influences. These days people are either making house and techno or they're just rehashing jungle, garage, grime and dubstep.
As a "European" I gotta say that's an interesting take. In Europe however the - semi hip - dance people (those who still run clubs, throw parties, run labels etc) , or to be precise Germany, are still pushing minimal techno for over 20 years now. It's the stuff that clutters the dj-charts. So, from a continental point of view, minimal techno won. Although it's a pyrrhic victory.
dude maybe in hip circles but that dutch cheese merchant armin van buuren is playing saudi lmao.
+that huge dead mouse twat is basically flattened out trance for the 00s generation.
isn't prog house (posh trance) popular in india and south america among other places?
what about 00s kompakt, traum? indie trance that one!
then you have psy trance. another shade of revolting scene tho they have some interesting production ideas.
even roll deep did pop trance at the beginning of the 10s.
trance trap? experimental club? It's everywhere!
there was a hip label in house and techno to add to the list of trance tedium but i can't remember their name.
It's a crime. we will not be remembered fondly henceforth.
But then, Trance never was being covered by "serious" dance/music media