Anyone fancy a pint?!
I think (if it's safe to make such an assumption!) I sit on the same side of the fence as Scart Ridge. I appreciate and buy DnB across the spectrum; from 'intelligent' breaks (shit term, I know, but you know where I'm coming from), the hard 'n' dark, the deep 'n' soulful and the feel-good bounce of the dancefloor.....it's the diversity of the genre that has kept me interested for so long!
But..
If I'm going to be honest, it's the recent popularity explosion of the scene that does my head in! Clubs and record shops being over-run with spotty little pikey kids in Burberry baseball caps and bling. The fact that everyone wants to be a DJ/producer/label boss/Rock Star....all leading to the scene being oversaturated with mediocrity (at best!). Now this might seem like a contradiction - in favour of diversity but loathing the explosion - and I guess it is! This is my own, subjective bugbear and I guess it's up to me to deal with it, but at least I can appreciate that life isn't black and white (also, like Sean Mack, I don't regard myself to be a 'scenester' or 'junglist', but to be the sum of many different parts). The idea of actually trying to establish a scene, separate from the current, seems a little bit contrived. These things should develop naturally over time by individuals with imagination, passion and integrity (not on the sole basis of just being different from the status quo) - and defined AFTER the (initial) 'event' by external observation of the culture that is produced as a consequence.
I think (if it's safe to make such an assumption!) I sit on the same side of the fence as Scart Ridge. I appreciate and buy DnB across the spectrum; from 'intelligent' breaks (shit term, I know, but you know where I'm coming from), the hard 'n' dark, the deep 'n' soulful and the feel-good bounce of the dancefloor.....it's the diversity of the genre that has kept me interested for so long!
But..
If I'm going to be honest, it's the recent popularity explosion of the scene that does my head in! Clubs and record shops being over-run with spotty little pikey kids in Burberry baseball caps and bling. The fact that everyone wants to be a DJ/producer/label boss/Rock Star....all leading to the scene being oversaturated with mediocrity (at best!). Now this might seem like a contradiction - in favour of diversity but loathing the explosion - and I guess it is! This is my own, subjective bugbear and I guess it's up to me to deal with it, but at least I can appreciate that life isn't black and white (also, like Sean Mack, I don't regard myself to be a 'scenester' or 'junglist', but to be the sum of many different parts). The idea of actually trying to establish a scene, separate from the current, seems a little bit contrived. These things should develop naturally over time by individuals with imagination, passion and integrity (not on the sole basis of just being different from the status quo) - and defined AFTER the (initial) 'event' by external observation of the culture that is produced as a consequence.
It's all for the good of the book...