Re: Drum & Bass (was Re: Andre LaFosse -> essential loop recordings)

[Eric Williamson <erwill@suitandtieguy.com>]

On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 09:20  AM, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> So, why is "Drum & Bass" acceptable as a genre seeing as it excludes a 
> lot
> of people who play either drums or bass and "Live Looping" isn't 
> acceptable?

ah you may want to check out Logical Progression Level Three, which 
features a drummer, a bass player, and some minor guitar looping in the 
background.

it was on Good Looking Records, and released in 1997 or 1998. there is 
plenty of music on that dnb label which features live drums and bass. 
not much looping outside of the one album i pointed out, but i haven't 
been keeping up.

don't forget that there are in fact two _diametrically_ opposed schools 
of drum'n'bass. there is the dark stuff, which is usually rather 
abrasive and features very bright highly resonant bass tones and is 
very closely related to breakbeat and industrial. and then there is 
"intelligent" (not my term) drum'n'bass, which is more like what guys 
on Stax records _would_ be doing now if Stax hadn't bit it (that is, 
futuristic soul music).

i think that there are plenty of other dance music genres that looping 
can work it's way into. are there any dance musicians here? like the 
kind that play at those parties with the glow sticks and the water 
bottles. :)
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Eric Williamson
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