Posts tagged Laurent Fintoni

“With over 20 years of dance music evolution behind us now, would it be so strange for the next big evolutionary jump to come from a synthesis of past forms? One so far unheard of that sidesteps pastiche and mixture, instead delving into dance music’s increasingly complex DNA to fashion something genuinely new, as exciting as the birth of jungle or dubstep. And maybe we don’t need a ‘wot do you call it’ moment anymore to create the necessary shift forward. The dissolving of boundaries in the bass music umbrella, with its mixture of established forms, and the growing interest in genreless club nights and DJ/live sets that embrace the slow/fast idea further hints at this. It’s maybe less a case of ‘wot do you call it’ and more a case of naming it later and enjoying ourselves for now. After all, that doesn’t make it any less new, and at least it places the focus where it matters most: on the dancefloor.” An insightful article by Laurent Fintoni on the mutations of juke and footwork.

“With over 20 years of dance music evolution behind us now, would it be so strange for the next big evolutionary jump to come from a synthesis of past forms? One so far unheard of that sidesteps pastiche and mixture, instead delving into dance music’s increasingly complex DNA to fashion something genuinely new, as exciting as the birth of jungle or dubstep. And maybe we don’t need a ‘wot do you call it’ moment anymore to create the necessary shift forward. The dissolving of boundaries in the bass music umbrella, with its mixture of established forms, and the growing interest in genreless club nights and DJ/live sets that embrace the slow/fast idea further hints at this. It’s maybe less a case of ‘wot do you call it’ and more a case of naming it later and enjoying ourselves for now. After all, that doesn’t make it any less new, and at least it places the focus where it matters most: on the dancefloor.”

An insightful article by Laurent Fintoni on the mutations of juke and footwork.

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Kuedo: a certain sentiment – FACT magazine: music and art

Laurent Fintoni interviews Jamie Teasdale for FACT magazine about his Kuedo debut album Severant, forthcoming on Planet Mu.