Here's one for ya.
Drumfunk, the buzzword for drum-driven drum and bass, percussive
dance of sorts, as Chris Inperspective of the Technicality label
would like to term it, once upon a time (2007). How does it gain its
environmental opacity? By opacity I imply the “right ambience”.
The right ambience is something we look for heavily in gentrified
“mood music”, specifically music for setting a scene. Indeed much
“mood” in shorthand is ideal for scoring films, movies, whatever
you call them.
Much success, I would
think, comes down to the “time bomb ethic” of the drums. The
“timbre” of the track. These two things, qualities, et al, are
not separate, rather they compliment each other in the “right
ambience”. You see where I'm going with this? What I am simply
saying is “drumfunk needs the right ambience for its potential to
be fully realised, and I think we can all agree what we once hated
can turn into things we love”.
Take Paradox Music. To
some the drums might sound like washed out cardboard rolling down a
hill. To the trained ear crunchy crisp percussions are the order of
the day, and for once there's no unnecessary filler side salad;
flights of fancy. The discombobulation Nucleus & Paradox turn on
the “Fuzz and the Boog” drum hit on the piece “Fuzzy Something”
is a timeless, riotous wonder.
To understand is to
understate, always. Hence the adjectives, because I will never truly
so “get it”.
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