I was never a fan of the break beat or drum n'bass but in 1993 I saw DJ Danny Beakz and it definitely gave me new respect for what the genre was all about which would eventually evolve into drum n'bass. The DMC scratching style with a live MC gave me new perspectiveon on break beat which was essentially dj tools music, local dj's would slowly straight blend two records together at normal tempo. I actaually have the intro of that on tape, bad radio interference when it was later rebroadcast: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevepwats/dannybreaks.ram
more examples of break beat from "92 which sounds pretty dated, (the second track with the 808 State/ Altern 8 samples is actually from a Dallas techno band): http://pages.prodigy.net/stevepwats/92.ram I can say the same thing about Jeff Mills when I first saw him as a UR Punisher tour spinning hardcore rave era techno, pitching the record up fast paced "Wizard" dj mixing style gave me a new perspective on Detroit techno. I remember when I first saw the Invisible Scratch Pickles on a loud system doing a five turntable set, it was much different then watching them on tape, I got a good feel for what the turntabalism genre was all about, when you see these guys live the scratching really hits you in the balls. on 12/15/02 6:06 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > as far as "Rave" music goes, i think the lack of commitment to any > given sound as its "foundation" is what makes it seem to not have > aged well. as im sure dj Entropy would love to point out, you can > hear the major offshoots of rave music cycle through the "rave > sounds" pretty frequently. the fact is that alot of rave-y techno > falls too far BPM and production qualitywise from any of those > related sub-genres to be mixed up with them and still sound > current. of course ill also shift some blame for that to the > increased awareness of studio virtuosity amongst the drum and > bass, breakbeat, etc production crowd. its like people are too > afraid to make lo-fi sounding rave tunes anymore, and i dont know > why. i mean the lo-fi thing worked in rock music, it works for > theo parrish, etc. with techno this doesnt matter so much since > alot of production still utilizes the same damn equipment used in > the early days. you can even look at the aging of the older 4 hero > and guy called gerald stuff (who had a pronounced techno/detroit > influence) compared to other stuff that was made with just a > sampler and some old house and reggae records and see that some > degree of simlilarity to newer stuff will go a long way to making > older music still sound relevant.
