Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:06:15 +0000
From: Fergal Finnegan <fergalf-AT-meta.dublin.iona.ie>
Subject: Re: M-TH: White Jazz


At 07:45 20/01/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>what I'm hearing at raves and clubs is an interesting
>>fusion of House, Jazz, Jungle and Drums n Bass.
>
>Re this last one: is this the same as "Intelligent Drums and Bass"?  A
>visiting Brit played me some of this stuff and it was interesting.  I heard
>a few really good pieces but I can't remember whether they were in this or
>one of the other genres, and I can't remember what they were.
>

Intelligent Drum and bass is just some useless category dreamed up by 
some music hack- it is the same as drum and bass. Drum and bass emerged
a few years ago from a mix of techno breakbeat, the type of music being 
played on soundsystems in Jamaican dancehalls and some playing around
with new technologies. At its best it can be simultaneously melancholy
and invigorating. Bass which you feel in your gut before you hear it and
beautiful fractured symphonies which seem somehow perfectly appropriate
for the time we live in.

If you sit on a bus and you have  the misfortune to be sitting beside
someone who
is listening to it on a walkman it is more like a bad case tinnitus.

Anyway Louis, enough of this banter, it's about time we swapped insults: as
>>Dizzie Gillespie says "Jazz is too good for Americans!"
>
>But is it also too good for Brits?  
>
Yep........

the only thing they deserve is a night at the proms 

(exit stage left for the stage Irishman)




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