Broken boxes: Time to Jack

Jamal Moss, an Insane Black Man

Been wanting to do a write up on jack / jakbeat for a while now, and Tulley's post about Sun Ra made me think more about another Insane Black Man and all-round Hieroglyphic Being. Dunno how familiar you all are with jakbeat but here's my take on it.

Where to start? I think it was probably mnml what done it. Maybe it was dubstep. At any rate, some time ago I started to get very bored with the clean, highly-produced digital sound of modern electronic music. I'm talking about drum patterns carefully painted with a mouse into intricate "interesting" combinations, overworked 'wobble bass' lines, the sort of cleanliness that's almost unavoidable when every element is exactly quantised and in perfect time (even when they're trying not to be). If you know what I mean? Maybe it's just me...