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Re: jungle drum and bass

2004-04-21 by robotchas

Given this:

> it's all about using the right sounds.  Actually, 
> SPECIFIC sounds.  Specific samples. (i.e. "amen break")  If you 
don't 
> have the right samples, then you don't have the right tools at your 
> disposal.

And this:

> In my opinion, jungle's big downfall is that the formula is so 
rigid 
> that it has left itself nowhere to go, and that the style was 
played 
> out a couple of years ago.  It seems pretty damn tired to me.

It seems that doing "inappropriate" jungle might be just the way to 
breathe some life into it.

I hate the whole microgenre musical pigeonhole thing myself. Screw 
the taxonomists, do what sounds good to YOU.

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