drum and bass conversions

ever tried to convert someone to drum and bass? One of my flatmates asked me to put some on after I'd been talking about music with another flatmate. Put on The Brazilian Job, thought it had a nice start and might do the job.
After 10 seconds her face (and her friends there drinking) dropped and she said "it's really fast, how do you dance to that". It lasted a minute before I had to take it off.
It was funny to watch, but do some people just have no ability to even give new music a chance?

well, hmm, the first dnb i heard was quadrant 4, and i thought it was shit. then i heard some other stuff, mighta been roni size, and started checking it out a bit more. then i got heaps more, and now i reckon dnb is whats up.

as for conversions... well, i myself was a conversion i guess, i must be the cliche'd ex metaller. in fact, i don't listen to that stuff hardly at all these days... hmmm.

a couple of times i have been to fu/fu bar, and early in the night seen a few "home boys" come into the dnb room and wrinkle their noses. they go back to the hip hop room, sit around nodding their heads awhile... but then some of them come back. they stand around a bit, then they jiggle their foot... bounce up and down, and then get fully into it. and seeing that makes me feel pretty happy eh.

its hard eh...
ive given up.
best way is to pill them up then take em to an party.

I converted my cousin by taking him to see DJ Die at Movement. He usually goes to house nights but it was my birthday so I got to choose. He had a huge grin on his face all night - it was very cool. He now owns a few dnb CDs.

The speed issue is something I've heard certain producers address in interviews etc....
So I think we might see tunes slow down abit in the coming year or so..... that might help some peoples causes.

I think jdm is fairly onto it there.

Can't remember the amount of times I've tried to persuade people about dnb and it's goodness, but the amount of times I've actually taken someone along to a gig to try and 'convert' them is only a few I think.

Often get pretty sick of trying to convince people how good dnb is. Especially when it's someone who is fully into another scene, and it's the norm to diss drum n bass. Probably the only way to really convert them is what jdm said. Get 'em along to a huge internatty and let them see what it's like live.

Another thing is lots of girls from other 'scenes' complain to me that they can't dance to it. Those people with no hip-hop or anything in their listening history find it especially hard. Some can hardly even find the beat!

I agree .... sped up breaks seem to confuse people

guess d'n'b ain't for everyone... ain't a bad thing tho.

rotfl

hahahahaha useless i tell ya...

if you want to convert your friends just play it constantly around them, they'll get used to it. if i can get my sista who has always been a hiphop head into singing along to Marcus Intalex and EIB i'm sure you guys could!

if you make mixtapes or burn cds for your mates - make what they want in it and sneakily add a couple of dnb choons onto and before you know it they're singing along to it.

if that doesnt work shove a pill down their throat, tell them to come down to a dnb gig and they'll convert... well thats how my m8s fell for the dnb...

as for the dancing thing - i told my friends you're dancing on a 1/1 beat to your dance music @ dnb you should do a 4/4 beat like hiphop - show them a couple of moves and watch em dance!!!

i think people have to have an element of taste to their music listening already to get into so-called "difficult" music like d and b. like someone into hip-hop is more likely to get into other types of music than your average limp bizzkit/westlife fan.
i thought it was funny my flatmate asked me about drum and bass but didn't even want to give it a chance. i guess the majority of people like something safe and won't stray.
i'm living in london and the majority of nzers i know go to antipodean theme pubs all the time or those lame hard house nights like fevah where everyone is from nz/australia, including the djs.
what's the point of being in london if you ain't gonna try the huge amount of things on offer

its funny how Chucking a pill down their throats makes them brock out like no ones bizness no complaints aboutthe music being to fast then? hehe , biggup drugs i suppose?

It's all about the Clockwork Orange like conditioning.

You know the score!

Ive been playing the more soulfull, funkier bits to a few house head mates of mine of late. All of whom turn an interested ear towards the music because finally they're hearing just that - more "music"...(!)

Intalex, Calibre, Zero Tolerance, Beta 2 etc all making tunes that have a certain appeal to those who got driven away from drum n bass a few years ago... or just never liked drum n bass because it was too "Raw".

Personally i really like where drum n bass has digressed(?) to over the past 2-3 years.. Aged like fine wine i guess. Gettin a little more classier, smoother, funkier...

Its actually bringing people back into the music a little more... Which is a bloody good thing.

Digressed is really the wrong word. Progressed? Diverged? whatever.. You know what i mean .

Hmm, well the way I got into D n B (I was the typical ex metal/hardcore kid) was I heard a few tunes (mainly concord dawn and ronnie size) and I had a workmate who was really into D n B and constantly was playing it, and after a very very short while I got into it.

The peeps I've got into it have just heard me play it constantly in the car. hehehehe

I hear ya matt.

The beauty of Drum & Bass today, is that there is a little something for everyone. IMO no one sound seems to be dominating, and it's all about the full spectrum.

Drum & Bass has never sounded soo good.

Yeah boyee. You know it.

A little something in there for everyone these days...