Just when you think everything musical has been covered, every note played, every score composed, every combination of the afore mentioned mixed, mashed, squashed and re-invented; a new angle appears like a layer of freshly fallen snow.

At the time it’s hard to define these monumental occasions, normally appearing too ‘out there’ to be even considered. Each genre of music invariably has a birth date and a creator though, yet whether at that eureka moment the creator actually realises that he or she is changing the course of history I suspect seldom occurs.

From traditional folk, to blues, to rock and roll, to electronic, hip-hop and so on… the history books pin-point these landmarks, their creators, the influences, the genre-stems that they spawn. However, where it all really started nobody will ever know.
Is Drum and Bass a direct relative to House music or does it’s gene pool run back as far as father time when the ancient civilisations created rythmical rituals to appease their ‘Gods’?
Cavemen didn’t have Roland Grooveboxes or TB-303′s, but they did have branches on trees that they could tear off, shape into drum sticks and beat away at the skin of the Sabertooth Tiger hide that they had stretched over the papyrus ‘drum’ that they’d woven together down by the banks of the River Nile. I bet even Neanderthal man could whistle a tune!

Now just the other day I had 2 visions into the future. The first came in the form of a repeat of Top Gear and THIS CAR. I’m no petrol head but just like a large number of the British public I watch Top Gear for entertainment.  We’ve all known for years that oil is running out and an electric alternative was required. James May announced the Honda FCX to be the most significant development in the Motor Industry for the past 100 years and I totally agree with him. It’s the future for sure. Well done Honda.
The 2nd great vision into the future came in the form of THIS ARTICLE on the BBC website. Check out the link and you’ll see for yourself. Now is the human making the music or is the technology making the music?
Your first digestion will probably be the same as mine. It’s a group of nerdy coders who are basically ‘tweaking the dials’ yet using the CLI (Command-line Interface) rather than hard-coded pre-defined algorithms already programmed into the Software or Hardware.
But is this the very first breath of a new direction? A new way of thinking? A pivotal movement towards a new musical journey?
It could be none of the above, but what it is is very exciting and so refreshing to see people making that leap into the unknown.
Is this in anyway related to Neanderthal man’s whistling? Yes, it must be.