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I love this so much. It's a fascinating example of the give-and-take between technology and human musicians, in this case working the opposite direction from the norm. People use the limitless capabilities of machines to create things hitherto impossible or unthought of by human drummers, and while I'm not necessarily a jungle fan, I adore the result when a human then emulates the style. Tom Rainey will do this sometimes, on Torn's "Prezens" for example. There's also a guy I went to music school with named Johnny Rabb (the "fastest drummer in the world", supposedly) who shows obvious influence from the machines in his setup and style. I gotta hear your kit! There's something elusively distinctive about the jungle beats I'm still trying to figure out. What is it, technically speaking? The asymmetrical rests, combined with extremely fast groups? I mentioned Veronica May last week (http://www.myspace.com/veronicamay), she has a tune called Sandpaper that manages to evoke the feel within a bar, just tapping on a guitar body. On the other topic, I'm listening to Reich's "It's Gonna Rain" right now on headphones...a near-static loop...that completely fascinates. Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com www.chinapaintingmusic.com > I have just loved that the technique of forward thinking drummers in >recent > years has soared because they have purposefully tried to emulate the > seemingly impossible computer cutups of styles like Jungle and D and B. > > Indeed, I have worked hard on creating a drumset that has three tiny > (6",8",10"= snares, 8" hihats and little 12" and 14" kick drums on one >side > (to emulate pitching up a drumset an octave on a sampler) and a 26" >kick, > huge 16" hi hats and a deep 10" X 14" 'coliseum' snare drum, all tuned > extremely flabby and flat to simulate pitching a drumset down an octave > (jungle meets half speed trip hop). > > Even trying to emulate a drum machine perfectly is fun for me because > I'm a human being and can't do it. It's just fascinating to me the >really > minor imperfections that occur when attempting to do something silly >like > this.