4 da dnb Fans: Pieter K Interview

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Drum and Bass Producer Pieter K has a new interview online.

The Man Who Introduced Me To dnb

“You’ve got all these little sub-genres and sects, and each one holds its little preferred style or taste as The One True Drum and Bass. People have plucked out one specific aspect of the music and fetishized it to the near exclusion of all else…I’ve gotten fed up with the self-appointed drum and bass fundamentalists policing the boards who lecture you about how it’s not right unless there are x amount of edits, or not right if the bass isn’t sufficiently filtered…etc. I get viscerally annoyed whenever I read that. There’s room for it all,”

“Gangster rap now is ridiculous. It was, at one time, absolutely vital. That stuff meant something then. But now, mainstream hip hop, including gangster rap, has mostly become self-parody. It’s an exaggeration to believe that that music somehow personifies LA although it did represent a certain part of LA, and that mythologized thing that’s represented still exists, but it’s just a fraction of life in LA, albeit a difficult one. The gangs and the violence are real, and the music, at its most honest and original, was telling stories that were real. I think hip hop through the 80s was one of the most exciting things to happen to music.”

“If I can’t sell drum and bass records, I don’t blame the fans and call them stupid….That’s childish.”

The rest of Pieter K’s Interview

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