Notes

Inspired by Western Exoticism and how it works within the world of sampling/DJ-ing, I decided to take gamelan music and re-inscribe it into a drum and bass context because 1) They are both dance musics and 2) They are both largely comprised of oppositions of pulse (slower bass lines against fast breakbeats and large deep gongs against the small metallophones of the gamelan). While we tend to think of sampling as a relatively new phenomenon, it is only the technology that we can claim as an innovation germane to the 20th century for the notion of borrowing is quite old indeed. Feel free to email me for gamelan samples, the source of DnB samples, and/or the DJ Spooky interview.