> No, I'd say there is a lot of diversity in the UK but you have to look hard > for it. It differs a lot from area to area. An unfortunate thing that seems > to have happened recently is that as UK Garage has slowly started to die, a > lot of the "undesirables" have turned their attention back to d&b. Hence the > sudden MC thing and we've got a situation now where MCs headline events and > not the DJs. Which IMHO, is fucked up. Every little tracksuit > bottom/burberry cap/hooded top wearing chimp round my area thinks they're an > MC now. And they're shit. Last Saturday, I played alongside Goldie and > within seconds of certain tunes coming on, I was surrounded....gimme the > mic, gimme the mic....fucking wack.
haha. nice that they're enthusiastic at least. but yeah, that sounds seriously annoying. MCs headlining over DJs? I have NEVER heard of that before. that's ridiculous! > So I played some liquid funk and they all pissed off to the garage room, > next door ;) *buys you a drink* Good work!! :) > Also, I've noticed that on this list and on production forums theres a heavy > bias towards techy, heavy tunes...check out dogsonacid for instance. i *have* noticed that. it's kind of overwhelming sometimes. hehe i don't understand. I might have like 2 years ago, but now I'm so bored by samey style shit all the time. The only folk I can stand entire sets of that stuff with are kemal and rob and sinthetix. I'm sure even they would get to me after a bit though. I'm deathly afraid of getting pigeonholed into one style. I admire klute and john b and some of these other heads just cause they seem to do a bunch of styles. John B especially, every time he's come to LA he's been pushing an entirely new sound, and even though I didn't always like it, i had a lot of respect for him breakin the rules and doing new things. I wish experimenting wasn't such a "scary" thing for some. I still love me some good tech but it HAS been done before. many MANY times. --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
