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 don't feel drab and lifeless yet.
And I find all speculation about a finite and ever dimishing pool of possibilities, and of a terminus for the musical imagination bizzare. As ridiculous as any other end of history claims
Judging from the thread, I think if I had included Funky, it would be doing about as well as dubstep.
surprised at the low showing, this forum used to be full of dubstepheads