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Come and get scummy with us... Scumriddim Medussa, Barrington Road SW9 10-6 £5 before 11, £6 after We'll be serving up curious electronics and vulgar bass from... Cloggi (Nuclear Free Zone) DJ Wrongspeed (Decibel Breach) Diesel Dave (Club Neurotica) El Kano (Adverse Camber) Hanuman...

The idea of Claro being sandwiched in between Falco and Collins makes me want to cry, frankly. ;) Can't help but agree with you on Kruder and Dorfmeister, though...

I found it very slow to begin with, but I was won over by the end. Kind of. I need to give the mix a 4am listen because minimal techno only really makes sense to me as after-party music. (How do people listen to this stuff at peak time? It's got no kick, no bass.) When I hear minimal techno...

Here's a mix I did for Spannered.org last month... a crunchy/bassy affair. I'm enjoying the crossover of electro/dubstep at the moment: there's something quite pleasing about the contrast of scuzzy basslines against crispy synth lines. To my ears, anyway ;) Circulation mix * Machine Drum —...

Don't make me think about Fiona Apple's baps. Her voice is distressing enough.

"Just catchy enough"... that's precisely Hot Chip's problem. Not offensive, but not much good either. Just... there. Plodding along in an unassuming plinky-plonky vaguely arty way. Meh.

Ooh, looking good. Can't wait for Yardcore on Friday... :)

There's only one thing worth judging them on, and that's whether they make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up with the raw joy of hearing them sing.

I have really tried to work out their appeal, but all I hear is lame, timid synth-pop by men in ironic windcheaters. Another vote for Nick Drake here... it all sounded so right when I was 17, but I can't bear to hear his melancholy mumbling ever again. The Chemical Brothers: For some...

Missy Elliott: Pass That Dutch and 7 Hurtz: Krystal (I think... definitely one of the tracks off Audiophiliac starts with a good cough)

Hot Chip Old Skool Garage Set? Did I read that correctly? :confused:

With the exception of ketamine;)

Oh, aren't they the worst? If the person doing the knob-twiddling owns the equipment (or is in charge of it) it's bearable, but it's hard to concentrate on what you're doing when someone's shoving their oar in and fiddling around with the mixer. At first I thought it was a bit patronising (I'm...

The word "progressive" is the death knell of any genre...

Yep... to say that psytrance has never developed is just wrong. It has developed a harder, more drilling sound over the past few years and moved on from the scratchy, wibbly arp antics of the mid-90s. The best psy is either the very dark stuff (like X Dream) or the spacy, tripped-out slightly...