Sunday, 27 June, 2004

Bass, Drums As the week end wraps up, my thoughts shift back to Friday briefly. By the time I come back from lunch on Fridays my mind is sizing up my work aimed at getting it to a break point, where I can come in on monday and not have to recall anything to get started. I only have a brief window of opportunity to accomplish this because I have started a habit of listening to the UMd's Campus radio station WMUC 88.1fm Freeform College Radio through their streaming audio link (see ref. in previous post to malfunctioning iPods. Starting at 3pm two Dj's come on and do 3 hours of Drums and Bass. By the middle of this the work week pretty much ends itself. Prior to my starting to listen to this I don't think I could have told you Drums and Bass was its own musical catagory, I couldn't even have told there was such a thing. There is, and it even has a Wikipedia entry to prove it: Drum and bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. What does it sound like? Like a psycho sprung diesel metronome on a six pack of redbull wrestling an oceanliner. I have to say it's very arty and serious for a genre that revolves around the studied abuse of programmable drum machines. Lets see people do that live with a real drumkit. 11:40:53 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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