Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

After some modern electronic music, here’s some classic drum’n’bass that sounds almost as fresh as 13 (!) years ago.

Roni Size - “Brown Paper Bag” from the seminal “New Forms” album.

Jojo Mayer & Nerve - Jabon

You’re bound to be mind blown, at least the first time around.

Seeing Jojo Mayer playing drums is believing. Once upon a time (around 2000) the open-minded Jojo wanted to try playing drum’n’bass, altering loops and was pleasantly surprised with the result. I must say, I’m amazed with the result.

There’s a video explaining what he does and another one telling the story how it all started and how he manages to play like an improvising drum machine. What he did, Jojo recalls, is - reverse engineering. That’s actually a suitable term known to software developers denoting a process of reconstructing machine structures into structures understandable by a human. In this case: human - Jojo Mayer (and rarely anyone else), machine - drum machine

BTW, doesn’t the beginning of Jojo Mayer & Nerve performace remind anyone of  Roni Size tune?

Thanks to Ivan Andonov for the tip.

[via line0ut]

Intereresting animation and beats samples coming from London-based Mistabishi (not Mitsubishi mind you) in this cool tune bearing the appropriate name “Printer Jam”. The tune has been released by one of my favorite drum’n’bass record labels - Hospital Records.

Thanks to Djordje Joksimović for the tip!