'nuum Poll
blissblogger
Well-known member
i was just describing what was in front of my face - or ears.
i think that's right about funky as the tailing off into something else (while still being pirate / East london on the demographic-infrastructure level). it's incorporating so many other antithetical sound-flavours (including that tribal bang-bang beat) that to an old junglist there was not much there to recognise as "The Next Chapter", if you get me
BUT i'm sure Tim Finney told me of a funky tune that was based on LFO's "LFO" so it wasn't entirely devoid of the echoing-back / repurposing old riffs and bringing into the NOW / roots'n'future aspect.
i think that's right about funky as the tailing off into something else (while still being pirate / East london on the demographic-infrastructure level). it's incorporating so many other antithetical sound-flavours (including that tribal bang-bang beat) that to an old junglist there was not much there to recognise as "The Next Chapter", if you get me
BUT i'm sure Tim Finney told me of a funky tune that was based on LFO's "LFO" so it wasn't entirely devoid of the echoing-back / repurposing old riffs and bringing into the NOW / roots'n'future aspect.
Well there's also as Luke says. everywhere is north now. drab and lifeless. east took some time but its there now. A lot of people who were into funky round our ends are now into UK afrobeats, which is much more aspirational compared to south london drill.
But then saying drill beats are junglistic is stretching it a bit as well. sure they are, but nu skool breaks basslines can be dubsteppy... it's not like anyone from UK drill even has the faintist recollection of the jungle culture, i mean me and barty are looking at this retrospectively... and the people in our age group who are into jungle are actually into the revival stuff more than the 92-94 sound... thats why a lot of it sounds so grown up.
the Drill beats they talk about as being junglistic are grime beats but made to fit a breakbeat template. not that fitful 1-3 jerk of dancehall. which only makes them junglistic as a distant genealogy.
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of course not. we ain't even scratched the surface of music yet. the problem is just do more digging is a commodified attitude. everyone's digging is determined by all kinds of external factors, truly independent digging could not exist. how could it?
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craner
Beast of Burden
I went
Jungle
Garage
Hardcore
I loved hardcore, it was some of the first music I loved. But jungle was the life defining and overwhelming experience and still sounds incredible. Garage - in all its manifestations, speed to 2-step, was a second wind which happily coincided with late teens early twenties, and still sounds incredible.
Grime I liked but, as Luke will attest, never meant much to me. Like him I loathed dubstep.
Jungle
Garage
Hardcore
I loved hardcore, it was some of the first music I loved. But jungle was the life defining and overwhelming experience and still sounds incredible. Garage - in all its manifestations, speed to 2-step, was a second wind which happily coincided with late teens early twenties, and still sounds incredible.
Grime I liked but, as Luke will attest, never meant much to me. Like him I loathed dubstep.
blissblogger
Well-known member
surprised at the low showing, this forum used to be full of dubstepheads
I mean if more people made halfstep tunes like this I'd give it a definite vote. amazingly 3d. since this came out it was a gradual decline though as people tried to make clone after clone.