The reality is the 90s beat you to it: this was the decade at The End of History after all. I'd argue that DnB exemplifies this neatly.egbert101 wrote:You can talk about whatever you want on this thread.wagtunes wrote: My point to posting all those videos, for those who missed it and need a diagram, is that the conversation here which, I thought, was supposed to be about recreating 90s style music, ended up a discussion about dnb. I mean there was more going on in the 90s than just dnb. And that's what I subtly tried to remind people.Basically I'm more interested in reinventing the essence of 90s music rather than recreating, hence I used the term post-modern, but if others want to talk about recreating, that's fine by me.
If you look at the dominant styles of the 90s they were largely about repackaging styles from the 60s, 70s and bits of the 80s in novel and not so novel ways. Jungle/dnb stole breakbeats from hiphop and sped them up but attached them to the slow bass of dub. Garage slowed the beats back down again and borrowed the bass from disco/house. Primal Scream gaffa-taped 60s psych rock onto house which arrived by way of disco. Trance gave you motorik and ragas strapped to a techno base. Techno (which arrived in the 80s in any case) came by way of Kraftwerk and electro/funk. Grunge mixed punk and rock. And then you had a bunch of shiny power ballads that mixed 80s chord progressions with OTT 70s styles.
If you want a "sound of the 90s" that belonged to the 90s, the sampled, telephone-EQed breakbeat is probably it.
