TBF though, UK Drill hasn't been sounding almost exactly the same since for almost 20 years. :crylarf:
I used to love going to tech dnb nights, do a couple of speedy pills, get totally absorbed in it in the dark. Definitely not music that can be judged from your desk on headphones. (Ala. Dubstep.)
Ultimately I did find this subgenre so repetitious and devoid of fresh ideas, though. And the sniffy attitude of people who are into it towards every other form of drum n bass (in my experience). Yanks on Dogs on Acid fetishing Noisia mixdowns.
Only the other day luka was saying how aesthetically he goes for stuff that's very pared down, bare bones, shed of sentiment.
Nah, i agree. I listen to all types of dnb and jungle (well, no liquid and jump up can fuck off.) But there is something there admirable in that the scene keeps trucking on and on and on mutating in all sorts of different directions (whether for the negative or not.) I just think people tend to say devoid of ideas when its synthesisers and the artificial but when resorting back to traditional pop song structures that have been done for over 80 years it's not a problem. a question of calibration really. don't get me wrong I hate the pavlovian drop of a noisia tune as much as anyone else but there is something far more mindfucky in the basslines than was in most 2010s brostep. I think the closed appeal thing isn't neccessarily a bad thing, not everything has to cross over. look how that killed grime stone cold.