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that makes it sound really appealing though!
late 90s tech-step
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that makes it sound really appealing though!
john eden
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Yeah Reynolds neurofunk piece in the Wire was all about Ed Rush, Optical and Doc Scotts remix of Shadow Boxing: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2030/
so circa 1997. I always see neurofunk as a subset of techstep I guess - that brief set of stuff circa early 31 Records, early Virus etc.
With tech step going back to No U Turn and then on to Bad Company and then up its own wormhole.
I do like the sub/version stuff tho.
I have an urge to play shadow boxing right now.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
madness. just sheer madness, like. next you'll be telling me that you don't like the Ed Rush & Optical Prototype 12".
Wormhole is tougher to defend. I like it still tho.
one thing I've noticed about Ed Rush productions ca. 96-98, a little trick like - instead of having the sustained/drone note in the background he often uses a fractional vocal lick looped over & over to create the same effect ("Slip Thru" off Wormhole, "Cutslo (Lokuste Mix)). it gives this really disembodied feel. I'm into it.
*EDIT* - thinking on this - I wonder Droid if it's cos in the end you're a reggae person & I'm a techno person. not that it has to be one or t'other, of course. I mean I've dabbled in reggae for years but when I'm not listening to jungle it's all techno, really. true. techno. music. in the words of Shed.
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rivet90210
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I'd say Tech... They'd close up the space in their tracks enough to take the edge of paranoia off.
I dont think they should be forgotten. I mean, some of their releases are forgettable, but not everything. I will admit, I bought Digital Nation when it came out, for the first track alone.
The rest is forgettable!
The beloved DBridge was of course a part of the group.
I dont think they should be forgotten. I mean, some of their releases are forgettable, but not everything. I will admit, I bought Digital Nation when it came out, for the first track alone.
The rest is forgettable!The beloved DBridge was of course a part of the group.
I'd say Tech... They'd close up the space in their tracks enough to take the edge of paranoia off.
I dont think they should be forgotten. I mean, some of their releases are forgettable, but not everything. I will admit, I bought Digital Nation when it came out, for the first track alone.
The beloved DBridge was of course a part of the group.
He was, and interestingly enough he rather hated it for a number of years; it's funny how the four parties involved turned out after the split... D:bridge is the only one who's done anything of any merit whatsoever...
I wouldn't call them either really, by the time they came on the scene the general development of the genre had sort of settled into the same patterns of "trendy style pasted over near identical undercarriage" in the same way that house and techno had always been from the beginning; you'd have a horde of producers and labels making tunes and every once in a while there'd be a mass bandwagon everyone would hop on, be it filtered disco samples, latin guitars, acoustic basslines and "jazz" samples or whatnot, all mixed up with those big steroidal midranges and those Def Leppard-esque drums... this would be spun by the scene media as a sign of "pushing things forward" and there being a "healthy diversity" even though most of the tunes would be functionally identical if you swapped the samples out between them
bad company's genius / schtick (delete as applicable) was to realise that you could take that fast rhythmic backbeat & bassline combination and turn it into a drugged up cyber-metal type hybrid, to which they later added sonic influences from trance and hard house...
it took a number of years before people began to revisit the various tropes that had been shed along the way and explore them for their own sake, whether it be breakbeat manipulation, sampling, sound design, and messing with the general template...
99 - 2003 were pretty dreadful years to be sure, but things are looking much more rosy now i reckon...
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droid
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Sure it wasnt the Daren jay remix of cape fear on Tone Def?
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droid
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Must be this then:
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mixed_biscuits
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Mace - My Reminiscence, I reckon
It's on this album: http://www.junodownload.com/products/1300993-02.htm
It's on this album: http://www.junodownload.com/products/1300993-02.htm
nomos
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Haha. If the boomkat homepage read like a bulletin board of inter-scene beefs...