The Drum & Bass Thread (formally Drum 'n' Bass is dead?)

[Jester]

Hehe bad luck. Same to u bruv, about to attack the beer i stockpiled yesterday after this massive lunch.

[tekki]

happy mythical being's birthday by the way

wtf can i only post in this thread? i get signed out of all the other ones.. midifidler you fucking with my posting privilages?

I guess he thought this would be your only hangout bro'!

[Jester]

I expect the full Phat10 reprt when yall get back ladz!

really digging the new Dom & Roland album, check it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3Ld7PjQxg

[tekki]

Same here...

Actually, a colleague from my fiancee went from here, Holland, to there, Phat10, to meet up with her friends and party.

[epsy]

Let me start by saying I LOVE Drum n Bass. I started listening to jungle back in the mid to late 90s when I was in high school. I watched it evolve into what it is today.

With that said, the creativity in DNB has been absent for quite some time. It happens with any genre though. It seems like electronic music has a certain thing about it, where a couple people come up with something clever during the same time frame, and it gets beaten to death by everybody that follows.

Subgenres evolve<?> out of those ideas. Hell! record labels start from those ideas. In the end what you're left with are faceless productions. I can understand how people might resign themselves to a certain subgenre of dnb, but to think you're contributing to the genre by simply adding more of the same to what desperately needs innovation seems a bit pointless. I feel like the only evolution drum and bass has seen in the past decade has only been the evolution of the tools being used, not the evolution of ideas by the producers using those tools. There are of course exceptions, but I feel like that playful spirit of yore where producers took chances are no longer here in regards to drum and bass.

The other thing I don't like is that much like hiphop, drum and bass is seen as a territorial accomplishment by those who have done something with it. Even people who pioneered drum and bass are too concerned with defending their territory to pass the torch onto new talent. The same people who created and defined it have killed it.

I can understand people who enjoy dnb wanting to distance themselves from candy kids in the rave scene wanking off on trance. That's why we had our lil smoke filled rooms off to the side in those massive warehouses. We just need to be less arrogant towards others, especially people cut from the same cloth.

Overall, there will always be a need for electronic music in the high bpms. It might not go K-S--KS- anymore, but we coulda used alot more clever ideas ages ago. Right now Dubstep is a breeding ground for creativity. I stress it when I say "RIGHT NOW". Dnb was in the same spot when it started asserting itself as a different animal from jungle awhile back. Dubstep will go the way of the dinosaur too, if it grabs the same nasty habits from dnb.

[Kaon]

phat 10
i saw...
optimus grime
markie
bad company
spor
black sun empire
dj hype
benga
skream
truth
concord dawn
the upbeats
state of mind
bulletproof
habit
nanoteck
and a bunch of others i can't remember right now. my brain is tired from doin drugs for 7 days in a row lol.

the only act who sucked were pendulum (dj set) who never got a single mix right. first time i'd seen them too and they blew it lol

[Damien1138]

was anyone at together as one this year? dnb room went ape shit and all sorts of ruckus evolved. moshpits during Hive, wicked tension control from Dillinja, shy fx bringing the nostalgia, dirty phonics went grimey as fuck and xample closing it out... Huge fuckin nite. pretty sure i got punched in the jaw at one point, but i could have imagined the whole thing also... but then again, my jaw fuckin hurts..

BOH MUTHAFUCKAS!!!

happy new year to the longest running active thread on djtt!!!

[EdanUK]

phat 10
the only act who sucked were pendulum (dj set) who never got a single mix right. first time i'd seen them too and they blew it lol

I remeber seeing about 4 years ago when Another plant came out, I could wait.......then the first mix they clanged and the second....infact I cant remember a good mix they did all night. There only saving grace was the fact I was so leathered by that stage they could have put on the news and I would have danced to it.

Do any of you guys know any good DNB nights in NYC?????

Going there in Feb for a week.

[midifidler]

yeah Phlendulum were so bad, I also caught their DJ set 4ish years ago when hold your colour was released, back then I didnt DJ so while I thought the set was nothing special I missed most errors, then I saw them live a year ago and that was literally the worst gig of my life, and then to fuck up that bad at Phat as the headliner is just disrespectful, kinda like they think Phat campers are your usual critters.

Everything else was awesome - Organikizmess into The Upbeats into Dj HYPE into Bad Company into Spor into Truth was my highlight

[tekki]

Everything else was awesome - Organikizmess into The Upbeats into Dj HYPE into Bad Company into Spor into Truth was my highlight

Can imagine big time, bro'!

Like a said earlier on, jealous as is!