In a message dated 4/12/00 11:31:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< What's interesting to me is not so much the cultural angle.....but the
fact that they jumped on Ghetto Tech (which is just a more sped up version
of miami bass music) oh about.......14 years after the fact as far as i
can reckon. >>
Who jumped on it? Music magazines(doing their job to stay hip) that have had
dj's, labels, and good promoters pushing it to them and the suburban buying
masses of club kids(white and black)for years-- whether it is worthy of a
grain of salt or not. I haven't heard any musicians talkin' about it, other
than to dismiss it as the Brittney Spears of synthesis. Who cares anyways, if
people are buyin' sell it- that's capitalism. Isn't it?
Re: Bass and Booty--- apples and oranges--- very different in ways other than
pitch. Some bass patters were actually complicated and certainly explored
tonal quality and lo-end frequencies ways that were never done before.
Remember the car shows with frequencies dropping below the bar--an
interesting experiment-- certainly moreso than "ass and tities" as ghetto
tech explores.
I'll take Davis and Coltrane with Evans in a smoke-filled lounge over either
anytime, but that's just a matter of taste.
I think the first Feel the Bass series did penetrate the burbs all those
years ago with much much hype- It replaced kool moe dee and depeche mode as
my most played for a while when I was in Jr. High in a little town in texas.
