This is a hate it or love it type of genre. Jump-up. A lot of the guys i know in the electronic scene who know anything about dnb and stuff shun it like none other. They think it sounds too childish and takes no skill to make. I disagree of course, although i see where they're coming from. Because yes, the majority of songs like this i don't like either (which i hate to say but its kind of true). But i don't write off the whole genre like some people i know. TC is like a half and half between jump up and just plain ol dnb.
This whole album, which i have its pretty good, is kind of a project between him and jakes. Jakes is an MC from the UK i believe. Most of what he does on this album is actual singing and rapping though, which is definitely not the same at all as MCing. So i commend him on his efforts.
You can really tell it flows well between the slow and fast parts. They wouldn't sound like the same song if heard separately, but the build up is awesome. Its kind of interesting how quick you can go from chill to hyped up. I would imagine that's hard to pull off correctly because the faster tempo portion could seem jarring, but i don't really get that feeling from this song.
I only really was heavily into TC for a few weeks but i really binged during that time. Everyone else i knew was listening to hardcore techno along the lines of hardstyle and electro and stuff, and i was too but TC was like my own dose of dnb that i got in between rocking out with my friends. I moved on quick, like i do. But i haven't forgotten about him because there are some dope tracks in my library by him.
There are some classic jump up songs everyone knows, but other than that i hear very little about this music. I don't want to say its 'dead' but more like it was an experiment in sound in the first place, and it'll keep it's die hard fans but people will move on to newer things or try other sounds and see what comes of them. Isn't that how we got to this point in music anyways?
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