william_kent
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so I once read this:
and then I saw this:
El-B Masterclass 2007
El-B talks about "yeah, it's a dub feel and that, so let me break this down for yer, very simple what we did, you've got a, err, rebirth of an old garage, sorry, rebirth of an old drum and bass sample CD, err, Jungle Warfare, probably spark a lot of memories off..."
[ ... El-B nods head, sucks on spliff... ]
"now what we've done is, we've filled it out with, what we call, the flickers, keeps it riding, kick snare kick snare with the fills in between"
"bam bam de bam"
so El-B admits to not building his drum tracks?
so Burial's "inability to emulate El-B's drums" was all down to not owning the Jungle Warfare sample pack CD?
Jungle Warfare sample CD
* don't get me wrong, I love El-B productions, who cares if he didn't build his own beats, etc, sampledelic innit
Burial named El-B as a key early influence in a 2006 interview with Blackdown. "I became obsessed with El-B and garage. Those drums. I’d been into jungle but then heard that stuff and loved it," Burial recalls. "I discovered El-B and garage at the same time. I heard his Brandy remix, then 'Buck n Bury' and 'Passage of Time' - and I hadn’t even heard 'Stone Cold' yet, though I’d heard of Groove Chronicles on something else I didn’t like. Then I heard 'Stone Cold' and I was just like 'fuck…'"
Burial goes on to reveal that it was his inability to emulate El-B's drums that initially led him to layer vinyl crackle into his tracks, which later became a central aspect of his sound. "I don’t know what he does," he tells Blackdown. "He’s got kit I don’t have so I started covering everything in crackle, to hide it, bury it, so I could do those drums I love. I didn’t have the equipment to make it sound like Photek-fucking-sculpted, proper heavy, El-B heavy. So I had no choice but to put the crackle on it and get away with it."
"Some of those tunes are sad because they sounded like the future back then and no-one noticed," he continues. "They still sound future to me. El-B’s stuff is still ahead of the game."
and then I saw this:
El-B Masterclass 2007
El-B talks about "yeah, it's a dub feel and that, so let me break this down for yer, very simple what we did, you've got a, err, rebirth of an old garage, sorry, rebirth of an old drum and bass sample CD, err, Jungle Warfare, probably spark a lot of memories off..."
[ ... El-B nods head, sucks on spliff... ]
"now what we've done is, we've filled it out with, what we call, the flickers, keeps it riding, kick snare kick snare with the fills in between"
"bam bam de bam"
so El-B admits to not building his drum tracks?
so Burial's "inability to emulate El-B's drums" was all down to not owning the Jungle Warfare sample pack CD?
Jungle Warfare sample CD
* don't get me wrong, I love El-B productions, who cares if he didn't build his own beats, etc, sampledelic innit