Hi!I'm Roberto, I live in Sardinia!
I LOVE DRUM'N'BASS
I LOVE DRUMMING (Black Age)
I LOVE DANCING
I LOVE LOVE
"La drumnbass è la meglio musica che ci sia..."
(Rita Pavone a Pippo Baudo, Sanremo '05)
"Drum’n’bass exemplifies the difference between digital preservation and digital construction. Where hip hop’s sound was critically formulated as an indebtedness to the past, through the quotational format of sampling,drum’n’bass
extended hip hop’s manipulation of sound and propelled it instead into the technological future.
The drum machine has never sounded like drums because it isn’t percussion: it’s electronic current, synthetic percussion, syncussion... Electro ignores this hope of
emulating drums, and instead programs rhythms from electricity, rhythmatic intensities which are unrecognizable as drums. There are no snares – just waveforms being altered. There are no bass drums – just attack velocities. The complexity of drum’n’bass programming meant that these sounds were far
removed from the hands-on style of previous drummers as they were patterns no hands could physically play. Yet, this is not to deny drum’n’bass’ maintenance of the
sonic past. Rather, the lineage represented was not a simple question of sonic archiving through the maintenance of certain pre-recorded sounds. Instead it displayed an attitude to sonic manipulation and to drumming itself as an expression of a particular socio-historical experience. Drum’n’bass, while not emerging from any unified ‘black’ subjectivity, is able to signify that history through its sonic materials. Drum’n’bass, as with other electronic dance music forms, is largely non-linguistic, but this does not efface its intertwining of history and memory on the aural plane."
(Steven Quinn)
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