dj n00bz here; Actually, dj seclusion to be honest. haven’t bought another set of technics 1200 but thus far due to space constraints i’m running the new torque exponent w/ trigger finger m-audio o2 keyboard & fast track (the latter three got for free b4 my old chumpusa shut down)
and yes dyce you’re right on with hospital amongst many others I know like ie. renegade and virus
is hello everything okay then cause that was released in 2006
I totally feel you on this, but you have to understand…The only exposure to Dnb/Jungle we have here in America IS the big names, everything else you have to find by luck or through connections. You can’t turn on the radio here and tune to your local DnB station and listen for upcoming artists (I’m not too familiar with Satellite radio though, I know they have a dnb station, but I don’t know what/who they mainly play). DnB/Jungle is not nearly as popular here as it is in other parts of the world, so the vast majority of us won’t hear of really good producers with little exposure.
I try my hardest to find the lesser knowns who are as good or better than those ‘mainstream’ artists you name. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to a random DnB mix I’ve stumbled upon, heard a track that was amazing, asked around for a track ID, and come to find out it’s produced by someone I’ve never heard of. I love the feeling of discovering new talent, but it’s not easy to do, being here in the US, the mentality of a lot of places is to only play the most exposed, or the most popular.
Plus, there is A LOT of crap to sift through.
I love the way his music sounds. It’s really sharp and compact. Plus the level of dedication he has for adding something unique to every snare, hi hat, synth filter, etc, really amazes me. Every hit sounds a little different from the others, like he is actually playing the drums and bass (which he actually does in a lot of tracks, seeing him playing bass live is something else) and you can hear all the human subtleties of every note. Compared to others artists, where everything is hit exactly the same, which once again I don’t mind at all.
All of that does not apply to ‘Hello Everything’ though, he really took a step down in production on that album, still good though. I’m talking mostly Hard Normal Daddy, Feed Me Weird Things, Go Plastic, Ultravisitor, Big Loada stuff. So good.
Not to defend him too much, since I know everyone has their own personal tastes, but the main reason SP appeals to me is because he is actually well versed in music theory and song structure. I know of a lot of great IDM artists who can’t even read sheet music. They have a more random sound, which I also appreciate, but when I need to go on a journey through the mind, Squarepusher beats most other hands down for me. Venetian Snares works too.
I’m most likely just biased as hell, so different strokes for different folks.
does anyone know Luna-C?
or jimmy J & CRU L T?
Cool, I have 2 Technics SL1200-MK5’s with Carl Cox styli, next time I buy carts and needles I am switching back over to the shure m44-7’s. Using a Numark Dm1050 mixer for the moment, my DJM-800 burnt out on me a while ago and I haven’t had the money to replace it yet. Serato Scratch live for more portable play, and Technics RP-DH1200 headphones.
Is Jenna G in the really popular catagory?
i wish i could afford that :sad:
I used to be a regular on the kf forum. Had Luna C play a few of our nights too.
Virtual leon- nice to hear people mentioning the older stuff. You on HWND? Im a b2vos man myself.
Deffo agree that current jump up is sorely lacking. Far too much high, wheres the bass gone? :annoy:
are there recommended internet radio streams?
right now i listen to www.di.fm for dnb
ill usually listen to hardcore, breaks, dnb, and gabber
www.breakpirates.com is a pretty good choice. Mainly uk based, so you may not hear too many live shows tho due to the time difference.
its a style of techno in which is heavy on well…drum and bass.
Thanks will download.
dont some people call it “darkcore” too?
I love LTJ Bukem “demons theme”
Can’t say I ever heard of that style (in techno). Was hoping it was a discussion about drumming, now I gotta work to get back in the green.
Ah yea, Jenna G is the shit too. I try to get every record of hers.
The Upbeats
Noisia
Spor
Limewax (tough to dance to his stuff) :-/
SubFocus
Calyx
IDM style:
The Flashbulb
Secede
Emotional Joystick
When I’m feeling smooth and jazzy:
London Elektricity (R.I.P)
Utah Jazz
::salutes this man::
Wow dude, we listen to the exact same shit. Bows
I’m not too big on Jungle/DnB much anymore. The occasional IDM-esque stuff. Anyway, for anyone big on Jungle you would do well to track these down by any means necessary.
Also track down the tune “Link - Amazon Amenity [Chameleon remix]”
On the limewax thing i ment just better, of course it’s just my opinion.
http://www.imorecords.com/View/19130/ is a good example how hard aggressive dnb should be, check the acid rain (vip) soundfile
Yeah pretty much she’s definently appeals to the more commercial side
Nah i just use HWND for its archive, what’s b2vos?
yeah the current scene is poor, but in my opinon it’s been that way since 96, of course there’s allways gonna be good stuff coming out just not as much back between 1992 1995 you was spoilt for choice new good tunes dropping weekly, for me now you’ll be lucky to get a really good tune once every couple of months.
personally i think the creativity has vanished everybody in there selective sub genres sound pretty much the same.
my beef is people like pendulem sub focus hazard clipz countless others all there stuff sounds exactly the same, i mean you put a pendulem track on and you know it’s a pendulem track dont matter which one you know it’s pendulem because every track is so similer which i think it’s not really a good thing.
I agree with you there’s allmost NOOOOO bass at all it’s all to high pitched even with all these so called darkside artists like tech itch, dylan endless others it sounds bassless in fact it sounds far far to synthetic.
when i got back into drum and bass i started to dl sets from kool fm and i was like “ok this aint great but it’s ok” as time went on and i started to collect records and play each tune i thought i liked individually i started to realise that current dnb was lacking something.
i can see why alot of guys left the scence back in the day and dont come back even now.
But to prove i’m not just some new school hater nostagia lover here’s some i like released within the last few years
dataset - cybermen
Q project - soulstar
Digital - retard (in fact i highly reccomend this)
Bizzy B - the science EP volume 3 to 6 ( old skool artist still doing his thing to this day definently the master of the darkside)
Rob sparx - attack of the wolfman
artifical intelligence - cays crays
D bridge - bellini
andy skopes and madcaps - hear dis
vital elements - rudeboy
vital elements - flipside
Theory - conquering lion ( for all you benny page lovers this is what jungle should sound like)
dj heist - metal slug ( definently the track that made me fall inlove with electronic music all over again, a great great new school track it’s just a shame the rest of heists stuff is really poor)
definently some decent newer stuff there.
Oh yeah the guy looking for mellower stuff, i forgot this one the invisible man - the bell tune classic shit released on timeless recordings.
actually back in the day pretty much anything released on GOOD LOOKING/ looking good records was pretty mellow you might wanna look some of them up on discogs if i remember correctly it was actually danny (ltj) bukems label