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the suggestion that "all that stuff" makes you turn off the show is baffling.
I never said " all that stuff" I said the tunes sound "a lot like this one", probably an exaggeration but i'm sure you get my drift. There are recurring sounds, styles and beats in a fair amount of the tunes you play that I don't like. The post-dubstep house sound I guess.
Looking throught your tracklists there's usually only one track at most i'd want to hear in the first segment of each show.
I have so much music to listen to that I can't generally be bothered to fast forward through a show/mix in case it gets more interesting later on.
I do remember listening to this one
Darkstar "Two Chords" [forthcoming Hyperdub]
Hackman "Untitled" [unreleased]
El-B ft Natasha "I Feel (Maddslinky's 4x4 remix)" [unreleased]
Velour "She Wore Velour" [Night Slugs]
Bias & Gurley "Roll (Blackdown remix)" [unreleased Keysound]
Damu "Crystal Gae" [unreleased]
Doc Daneeka "Cops" [Ramp]
Brackles and Shortstuff "Good Foundations (Martin Kemp remix)" [forthcoming Ramp]
MJ Cole ft Wiley "From the Drop (LViz 1990 remix)" [unreleased Prolific]
Raffertie "Rank Functions (Ital Tek remix)" [forthcoming Planet Mu]
The Fives ft Hayley Miller "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)" [unreleased]
Ghostek "Barricades" [unreleased]
Sully "It's Your Love" [unreleased]
Nehuen "Time after Time" [unreleased]
Mickey Pearce "What's Mickey Talking About?" [unreleased]
Nehuen "80s" [unreleased]
......
The Fives track is great, the rest not so much,
Sully who i've rated since his first release sounds like another weak Juke/Electro clone here. Such a shame, his 2-step was amazingly good.
This is my other gripe at the moment, the current vogue that's spread from Addison Groove's Juke influence and Instramental's electro thing so now you've got all these tracks that sound like Radioactive Man from the early noughties.
Bok Bok's recent FACT mix is a case in point, whilst I enjoyed it it just sounded so retro.
Well made clones of great music but clones all the same.
Maybe i'm just a bit too old now. I'm sure it's great fun if you haven't heard it all the first (or second or third time round).
I'm listening to Blawan's FACT mix at the moment and that's giving me the same feeling, his recent EP does seem pretty good though.
I haven't heard Damu so I can't comment on that, got any links?
i realised it's hard to hold an expanding current genre up to the rates of incredible discovery if you're going back through years if not decades of musical output.
You're quite right of course but this is only part of the problem
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