A video look back at the dance music scene in 1998, when R4 was launched.
Added 2024-04-11 02:18:38 +0000 UTCThis was part of the dance music scene at the time R4 was being produced. I particularly liked DnB and acid jazz.
【DRUM'N'BASS】ドラムンベース～UK発 未来の音楽～1998
Drum'n'Bass - Future Music from the UK - 1998.
Even if they have made their major debut, they will also release an independent release.
In order to maintain our stance on creating our own sound.
We value the pride of what we have created and our own place.
8:46 Drum and bass producer "Solid State".
I didn't realize it.
2000 Solid State - Point Of No Return (album)
I took a quick listen to it, and it was really cool.
However, it also has a 1998 sound to it. The year 2000 was only two years from 1998, but it was a time when the dance music scene was changing drastically at an incredible speed.
"If the person at the top doesn't play it, the DJ below won't even touch the record."
1998.8.12 SWERVE
However, this video really shows the development period of R4. At the time, I was busy making songs.
a. fabio is here too!
"SWERVE is a place where real underground music can be expressed."
Fellowship
``The people who come here can say they are on the cutting edge because they can listen to songs that will be released in six months now.'' → Songs that get a good response from the audience are guaranteed a contract with a label.
Addiction
"It's a very difficult scene to get a big break. I think everyone has a chance to reach a certain level. But then again, it's difficult to move up from there. Many people give up. Yo"
DJ GROOVERIDER
``No matter what people say, you just have to think that you're good.
Not everyone has the same ears or brains.
All you have to do is keep going and gaining experience.
If you do that, your wish will come true. ”
``Everyone is working hard and putting their heart and soul into making the songs.
I don't care about money. It's important to make it with your heart.
If you can do that, then you can say that you are making a song.
If you listen to the song, you'll understand. ”
According to Wiki, he is the same age as Hosoe. A wonderful generation.
[around 15:43] 1998.8.20
10DAYS OF TECHNO~DRUM 'N' BASS NIGHT~
a. On this day...according to my Namco notebook,
It was the day THE RIDE was reborn in a big way from its initial version.
Instead of a dark rap sound, I added a racing game-like chord progression and gave it a progressive rock flavor.
Even so, the bass is amazing.
ZINC's bass line is very sharp.
Was this the year that a genre that no one knew about became a global scene?
4 hero's live performance is amazing.
This would not be possible without major funding.
On the other hand, we need indies to protect our roots.
MARC MAC (4 heroes)
"I think we'll see more products that combine raw musical instruments and computers."
At that time, we had Protools, but it wasn't powerful enough to be used for songwriting. Even in the outside studio, Protools wasn't the main tool; instead, I was using a DA-88 to do the pouring.
Two years later, Protools had secured a secondary position in songwriting, and commercial studios were using Protools. MARC MAC did what he said, but on the other hand, there was a big problem in that people who visually recognized the waveforms would end up just looking at the waveforms and fiddling with them endlessly, losing sight of the essence.
DEGO: “We've both created our own thing in London.”
Drum and bass was born in London.
It's now widespread all over the world, so people outside of the UK may enjoy it without thinking about it that way.
In terms of Japanese food, there are restaurants that originated omelet rice, restaurants that originated family ramen, tonkatsu, taiyaki, Utsunomiya gyoza, taco rice, kenchin soup, hot spring manju... It's like everyone enjoys these things without knowing their origins.
But I've only made one drum'n'bass song with R4, Move Me.
I was able to discover drum'n'bass and take the time to learn and create music, and I wanted to create more.
But, as Addiction said, it's difficult to move up from there, in other words, in order to continue creating something that surpasses it, you have to bring in something more.
Move Me was like a crowded train in Bangladesh, and I tried to express as much of my roots as possible, so at that time I had no choice but to drastically change the rhythm.
When you think about it, it's been 26 years since then. I've had a lot of musical adventures myself, and now I have more things to bring back.
Also, looking back at R4, I realized that I don't just like drum'n'bass, I like making breakbeats and other types of beat music.
【TECHNO】 テクノ ～進化し続ける電子音楽～ 1998
Techno - The Continuing Evolution of Electronic Music 1998
【JAZZ/LATIN/CROSS OVER】 TOP5 by Especial Records Jul,1997
