Style Change

The Watcha

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I'm interested to hear people's contributions on artist who have dramatically changed their style of production within drum and bass. Not just evolved with the times over the years like Dillinja for example, or someone like Stray who you can't pin down, or others like Zinc or Clipz who went on to produce crack house or whatever. Examples:

Rockwell
All his glitchy clicky stuff like his Noir and Aria EPs etc that made people sit up and notice him, compared to Chorus Of Disapproval and User (which doesn't sound like any of his previous stuff)

Hazard
Talk Like A Girl and Hold It etc compared to Blackout and Death Sport. Escape said he upgraded his 'drums' or equipment, for the better by the sounds of things as Ulterior Motive and Kasra were playing Proteus and Time Tripping

Audio
All his old stuff on Freak Recs, then his spell on Virus with Headroom etc to all his resent 'curse of Ram Records' stuff.

Calyx and Teebee
Ditto the Ram statement above

Chase and Status
From their Renegade Hardware days with Glitch and the Ten Tonne EP, to an alright spell at Ram to be honest and beyond

Sensa and Haste / Hybrid Minds
From their jump up roots as the former to the liquid stylings of the latter. Clearly saw more profit in a different style, and who would blame them

Be interested to hear other people's opinions
 
Cyantific is another one. The duo produced some nice liquid for awhile, then it just became Jon. He was pretty good solo at first but fell off a cliff not long after he left Hospital, turning into another Culture Shock clone.

Would dBridge fit here? He did a lot of liquid stuff pre-Exit/Autonomic.

Perez kinda sorta fits, I think, since he does both liquid and halftime stuff now.

Audio had a couple decent tunes on RAM at first, but...yeah. Maybe it’s the stache :teeth:

I feel like Rockwell is one of those “hard to pin down” guys. User is one of my favorite tunes so far this year, but it was the only one I like off that EP.
 
Has anyone gone the other way?
Started making tunes you weren’t feeling, had a style re-up and now they are buy on sight?
 
J Majik - deep intricate jungle to basic poppy dancefloor, via a quick flirt with tech.
 
I'd throw Matrix and Distorted Minds into the cypher.

Current Value; used to be known for harder stuff but has definitely showcased his versatility in recent years

Matrix, Distorted Minds and Current Value are all really good shouts

Especially from T-10 and Impulse to their Modulations release and Current Value appearing on Systems

Fresh is both a good and a bad shout :teeth:

Another I was thinking - PA
From his dirty jump up like Muddy Water and Para People to more deeper roller style jump up like The Shogun and Fuck The Bullshit
 
yes PA definitely. I prefer his early jump up stuff tbh (except for a couple of newer tunes, butterfly clan and the shoguns pt.1-3 were heavy)
 
Fresh is the best shout imo

How do you go from Bad Company to The Gatekeeper to Hot Right Now

:lol:
 
I literally cannot believe nobody has mentioned Bungle...

The most disgustingly sick & relevant switch up in styles from any d&b producer in the past 5 + years.

:rodigan:
 
I literally cannot believe nobody has mentioned Bungle...

Bungle; absolute G. Definitely one you can’t really pin down

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DJ Zinc - Jungle/Drum & Bass to Garage to Crack House
 
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