I've been listening to dubplate.net for a while today and I'm really
straining not to compare the sound (and sentiment) to what I recall was
called Techstep or Dark D&B
Plasticman's music sounds like Photek to me - stripped down beats
(personally I think Photek's sound was more interesting and truly new at
the time compared to this in it's own time - considering we've already had
a Photek)
now I have no doubt that people are getting excited about it - I can see
how it could inject something interesting into a scene where everything was
'bling bling' but so far I haven't heard anything revolutionary (at least
not the way people have been hyping it)
it's a bit of dancehall rhythm, some drum and bass subbass (and it's the
same sounds), some lo-fi sample sounds (ring tone type sounds), a bit of
rave/Aphex Twin mentality
a bit like Si Begg really without the humor
It's fun/interesting to listen to but why the new name? It's
dark-jungle-2-techsteps-forward-one-back-hippity-hop basically.
I definitely wouldn't even begin to call it electro - even if Haywire guys
spin it
closest thing sounds like Photek, Ed Rush, Technical Itch
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03/31/04 05:27 PM Subject: RE: (313) grim is new?
(was techno renaissance - this is
gettingridiculous)
eh? Plasticman's tunes sounds nothing like Dizzee, he's not even an MC.
To just dismiss an entire group of musicmakers like this is
ridiculous. Despite your explanation of how knowledgeable you are, it
still sounds like you don't really know what you're talking about.
For example, you claim to have been passing on his stuff years ago,
but he's barely been releasing tunes for a year.
There is some fresh innovative music coming out of this scene, and I
suspect if you believed the tracks were by Tommy Hamilton (or even
Aaron Carl instrumentals) then you'd feel differently.
At 05:06 pm -0500 31/3/04, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
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>>Have you actually heard Plasticman? - his tracks rock like the
>>proverbial MF, really heavy and dark, a cut above much of the
>current
>>crop of UK electro, he doesn't sound anything like the current
>>Rephlex roster
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>dude, i was actively NOT buying this guys records when they were
>first coming out years ago. ditto with wiley and dizzee and all
>these other jokers who got popular off of this nonsense. i had a
>couple so solid records when they had yet to blow up and a couple
>of the other MC type tunes. "a pulse x" was the tune that blew up
>the 8 bar style first, and i still have that. stuff that came
>after was much more boring sounding because theres just not that
>much interesting going on with the music and the emcees that rap
>over it are mostly subpar.
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>tom
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