luka
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I mean the whole point of electronics in my eyes is either the machine romanticism a la detroit or 80s/some 90s rnb or the anti-humanist agenda. Otherwise you've got an inexhaustible amount of 60s-70s free jazz, rare groove, soul, ska and afrofunk/middle eastern funk to dig through. never ending. The best jungle, even if it uses acoustic sounds is that which can only be produced with electronic equipment/is electronically treated. something like mixrace the programmer is key here. essentially a drum workout that can't be drummed by hand because of the chops, and effects.
Where as bukem circa 97, i might as well go back to the sources his acolytes he's sampling from. it was even a step back from early 90s US garage, which for all its organic textures was big on vocal science and dub techniques.
More or less in agreement. I like the Detroit romanticism but don't think Barty needs it. Think he grasps what that is and does instinctively