Recent content by Dr Venom

I don't want to get in a continuum debate but my favourite house music for a while now has been the sort of UK centric tech house. Interesting because acts like Mark One who is now in Solardo are leading the way and also a personal favourite is the stuff MANT are doing (one half of is DJ...

Regarding UK Drill. What I find interesting about it is that it feels like, for the first time a local London scene incubation. Place and provenance is intrinsic to pre-internet subculture (possibly also class lines to a certain extent*) and the advent of the internet gave birth to the first...

I worked with the guy that co-wrote this track, a guy called Alex Smith (and Preston from Ordinary Boys also co-wrote on this track) and one of the things Alex is great at is working FX into hooks and although I wasn't in the room when this was written I feel 100% certain the 'heart skips a...

Giving some old instrumentals and beats out for free (2003-2005) era before I turned sacrilegious etc... http://www.youtube.com/drvenommusic The DL links should be in the comments box.

Interestingly its a more 'white' pilled up scene, as supposed to its champagne/coke ancestors.

There is still a fairly healthy scene in Birmingham that gets called bassline house or organ house. Not bassline house like Sheffield/Niche/T2 etc but the organ stuff bares all the hallmarks of old speed garage records (The 4x4 house with shuffle beats, organ/dread basslines) You might find some...

Has anyone noticed bassline getting jumped on hard by the Americans? Drop the Lime, Jack Beats, AC Slater (awesome reference to Saved by The Bell) Trouble & Bass etc? The levels seem to be higher and a distinct lack of northern MCs.

http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/printable.aspx?m=1970233943 Loads of Dreamscape tapelinks most seem to be working that I've checked. I was looking for DJ Vibes on Dreamscape 16, my first entry into the continuum. Not very subtle, all that happy hardcore.

Hmm... Jungle with a 2-step feel. I think it would depend on the style or meaning. Certainly look into Bingo if you want to find an UKG and breakbeat garage remix intravenous into Jungle, probably beginning with 174 Trek (strictly this was released on Tru Playaz) through remixes of the early...

Humm... yes true, but I would argue that it is not the post-modernism not of being self-aware/ironic/banal but the good type of post-modernism that is aware of all before it, appriciates all before it, embraces eclecticism as a method of seeking new sounds. There are many different meanings for...

And post-modernism in art is when it all got very fucked up and exciting.

I can't remember if I have typed this thought before but for me everything past Grime is Rave music eating itself. It came to the end of the line with Dubstep (the death of rave.) If you think of modern art and an analogy...

Definately looks like its going to be an exciting 2008 for the underground in London and the UK. I think Gabbas points are quite valid, because although its all happening on a smaller scale, it seems there could be a parallel drawn between the transitition from Jungle to Tech-Step (soon renamed...