Okay, this was not my planned challenge for the summer but it still works.
Last month, we lost two shining lights of music, Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Both were troubled geniuses who were failed by the world they lived in. Both created entirely new forms of music and approaches to recording music. Both have been sampled endlessly.
And crucially, both shaped their catalogs, and so much of the music that came after them, by reaching for a beauty they couldn’t find in the worlds they were born into.
Docu about early days of dnb and jungle in UK.
It’s a 2 hour watch, but it will hit some nostalgia notes.
I was 15 in '95 in eastern Europe when it all started for me with dnb and jungle
Haha that was peak clubbing/rave time for me, right up until about 92 when the excesses of the past 5 years caught up with me, wouldn’t change it though, it was a privilege to witness the shifting landscape of music in the UK over the course of the early eighties and into the nineties, shame I can’t remember a lot of it, like they say though if you can remember the 90s you weren’t there…
I remember the first time I heard dnb was when I was returning back home from somewhere in the evening. I was maybe 16? I heard music from a shady alley of car garages. That neighborhood was not the safest at the time. Still, for some reason, I went to check the music out. Turned out a dude plugged two decks and speakers to the power outlet of his garage and was doing a live set. It was a hot summer. He played Makai Beneath the Mask. I became friends with many people whom I met there — since I was so young, I got a vip pass to most of the events they played across town :). Cool times.
Dennis played the drums on Do It Again. The “fab effect” (thank you)
was something I came up with during the mixdown. I had commissioned
Phillips, in Holland, to build two tape delay units for use on the
road (to double live vocals). I moved four of the Phillips PB heads
very close together so that one drum strike was repeated four times
about 10 milliseconds apart, and blended it with the original to give
the effect you hear. Everyone liked the sound and credited me with
adding to the commercial success of the single. Whether or not that
was true, I don’t know, but it put me in the engineering seat for many
years.
Good Listening, ~Stephen W. Desper
This is the only site giving the chords for …Medley, but I know sometimes these sites get it wrong, and I’m unsure if they would re-write the tune in a whole new key?
I don’t have a music device to hand to test, chords myself and I’m basically tone deaf anyway!
