Comments on: Once More, With Feeling: It’s Time For Another Drum & Bass Revival http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:30:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tenno http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival/comment-page-1#comment-717792 Tenno Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:08:10 +0000 13ee843f6af21a600cb011160d5bf5e4#comment-717792 <p>Yay! Someone added some balloons!</p> Yay! Someone added some balloons!

]]> By: chaircrusher http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival/comment-page-1#comment-717812 chaircrusher Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:00 +0000 13ee843f6af21a600cb011160d5bf5e4#comment-717812 <p>Drum and Bass never really went away, but it focused down into a narrower and narrower sound, with a smaller and smaller following. I was in on the early 90s 'Jungle' breakout -- where all sorts of 'intelligent' dance music types picked up on the completely mental beat-slicers in the London scene. That kind of stuff -- the swing-and-sway crazy-ass cutup stuff with the odd ragga sample -- still floats my boat.</p> <p>Modern jungle is streamlined and boring as the worst twitter thump minimal techno. There's a certain dependable audience for it, so they keep doing the same fucking thing over and over.</p> <p>Dubstep 2 years ago (and grime 4 years ago) had that same heyday of newness and variety. Then they both seemed to have succumbed to the same stylistic fascism that killed drum and bass and minimal techno for me. You can still find the odd exceptional, brilliant record coming out, but they're swamped in a riptide of samey crap.</p> <p>Honestly, being a dance music fan can be exhausting, and it's not just staying up all hours sweating on a dancefloor.</p> Drum and Bass never really went away, but it focused down into a narrower and narrower sound, with a smaller and smaller following. I was in on the early 90s ‘Jungle’ breakout — where all sorts of ‘intelligent’ dance music types picked up on the completely mental beat-slicers in the London scene. That kind of stuff — the swing-and-sway crazy-ass cutup stuff with the odd ragga sample — still floats my boat.

Modern jungle is streamlined and boring as the worst twitter thump minimal techno. There’s a certain dependable audience for it, so they keep doing the same fucking thing over and over.

Dubstep 2 years ago (and grime 4 years ago) had that same heyday of newness and variety. Then they both seemed to have succumbed to the same stylistic fascism that killed drum and bass and minimal techno for me. You can still find the odd exceptional, brilliant record coming out, but they’re swamped in a riptide of samey crap.

Honestly, being a dance music fan can be exhausting, and it’s not just staying up all hours sweating on a dancefloor.

]]> By: Dick Laurent is dead. http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival/comment-page-1#comment-717822 Dick Laurent is dead. Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:28:36 +0000 13ee843f6af21a600cb011160d5bf5e4#comment-717822 <p>I love this...</p> I love this…

]]> By: okiedoke http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival/comment-page-1#comment-717802 okiedoke Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:18:21 +0000 13ee843f6af21a600cb011160d5bf5e4#comment-717802 <P>Can we get one of these with snake handling, please?</P> Can we get one of these with snake handling, please?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5054332/once-more-with-feeling-its-time-for-another-drum-bass-revival/comment-page-1#comment-717832 Anonymous Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:58:14 +0000 13ee843f6af21a600cb011160d5bf5e4#comment-717832 <p>If drum 'n bass parties were anything like this one, I'd still be going to them.</p> If drum ‘n bass parties were anything like this one, I’d still be going to them.

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