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2 big name D&B artists talk about D&B being boring.
First up: Dego
“RBAMA: »To what degree did you ever feel misunderstood?«
DEGO: »The hardest, worst time was when I was famously quoted as saying that Drum’n Bass is boring. People didn’t really understand exactly what I meant by that. What they have to remember is that I was one of the people that was involved in that from the start. It’s like having a son. The son started to turn bad and did all kinds of things that he shouldn’t have been doing. I was telling him “don’t do that”, but he wasn’t listening. What the Jungle thing was all about was the fact that we did anything we felt like. If you wanted to put a Soul tune in it, it goes in. Hip Hop, Techno, Brazilian style, whatever. It was like this great skeleton that you could attach anything to, but then it started to turn into this one thing and I was getting worried about that. That is what I was talking about at that time.« “
Well that sparked a little discussion on DoA and on page 2 there is an interesting comment fomr Pendulum’s Elhornet.
“Everything changes.
I’m sure the majority of people responsible for near on every single musical genre or movement has some problem with how that sound changed over time.
From hardcore, to metal, to rock and roll, to breakbeat, to trance and beyond.
Theres also seems to be a tie with people constantly wanting to relive music that was relevant to them between the ages of 16-20.
I think drum and bass of 2007 still utlises as many outside influences as it ever did. Thankfully we’ve seem a reduction in the amount of people completely raping great dub and dancehall tunes for samples and actually recording their own musicians when they want to make drum and bass with those kind of vocals or sounds.
Theres alot of people drawing from rock, metal, punk, hardcore, techno, house etc etc. Theres people taking those sounds and making them their own under the guise of drum and bass.
People are still adding hiphop elements to drum and bass, again thankfully by way of recording things themselves rather than sampling, something that might well have hurt the profile of drum and bass over time and gave the impression it was a bootleg genre.
Nowdays its a machine, its own entity and its more credible than it ever was much to the disdain of those who had a hand in its creation.
Drum and bass isn’t boring. It’s what YOU make it. Less TALK, more DO!”
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