Hey Stickman--I just have spent a lot of time learning about this stuff. I grew up with electric jazz/fusion (Weather Report) and all the electronic music of the late 80s and 90s does not seem like that much of a far cry from this, even though a lot of musicians seem to turn up their noses. I spent a lot of time in SF checking out the new styles...kind of my secret double life as an acoustic musician who sneaks off to raves and dance clubs to see what's up there (not the standard stuff that everyone hears but the more sophistacated stuff by educated, sophisticated DJs, often who have musical training themselves). Never been much into ghettoizing myself in one particular genre when there are so many flavors of interesting, lively music. Even fantasized about picking up some decks and rekkids and dropping some beats...from a drummer's perspective. Mixing up "Tom Sawyer" with some crazy breaks track or something (I'm sure it's been done). Or slapping Weckl's work with the CCEB up against some acid jazz track with some phat-ass hip hop beats.
Fact is that when I've made breaks/D&B mixes for musician friends they go nuts and say "Whoa! That's incredible! Can you play that?" Not really--it's challenging from a technical standpoint, yes, but to do it right and make it sound good with all those textures and sounds seems like something of an engineering feat as well. That's not what I want to deal with when playing drums and I've seen so few who can do it up right.
Thanks for the names--I will check it out. I heard Jojo was doing cool stuff, but haven't heard his playing in this vein.
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