I think some people utilise the internet a bit too much. Some people write a track and as soon as they’ve rendered it off they’ll upload it to Soundcloud and expect people to comment on it and all that bollox and it’s a complete ego trip.
.. everyone just wants fresh all the time. Just let things breathe a bit. Its too fast, way too fast. This is partly the problem I think with like sales and music now. Some labels, I’m obviously not gonna mention any names, but they’re putting releases out every two weeks. You don’t need to be doing this, people are still going to be buying your records. Just pick the best out of them. Don’t just release a 12” every two weeks and expect people to still be buying it, cos its not fair on the people buying it and its not fair on the artist either.
What's exciting about [...] the tunes that have surfaced in the last year is that the music often sounds like a hybrid where the grafts haven't wholly congealed. Sometimes, it sounds "wrong", but only in the way that 1993 darkcore sounded not-quite-there-yet. If you want seamless, fully-realised fusion, listen to drum & bass, a style that has arrived at a definitive version of itself and accordingly spent the last two years scratching its head wondering where to go next.
Needless to say, as with any in-vogue style, there's a lot of crap 2-step around, shoddy stabs at opulent production that only sound nouveau riche. It's also crucial to emphasise that 2-step does not have a monopoly on creativity in the UK garage scene. Its vital balance (auteurism vs. will-of-the-crowd, digitized drug-noise vs. live musicality, futurism vs. tradition, tracks vs. songs) [28] and oxymoronic mood-blend (light 'n' dark, feminine 'n' masculine, treble 'n'bass) recalls the glory days of hardcore and jungle. If 2-step can manage to marshal all its competing impulses and sundry sources within the same space, maintaining them in productive friction without causing the style/scene to split off into factions like jungle did,
women find them irresistable and it makes men respect you. also it give you an insight into what its like to be a girl. cos girls are always staring at each othr sizing each othr up and when you got a beard you cant help looking at other peoples like, 'ha, what a shit beard' and then you feel a bit better about yourself.
yeah pacino is lucky cos his beard seems to stop just above the jawline. its very well kept. my beard is still in that early sort of 'newly homeless' stage. but ive got a nice electric razor with diff gradients now so will be putting it to use in the next few days.
this is the type of travesty im talking about:
http://rinse.fm/2011/05/lee-mortimer-guesting-on-rinse/
much of it has this melancholy strain in it.
I'm using the James Blake example again, but a lot of his stuff sounds like when Radiohead does electronic/glitchy stuff. Its the sort of flimsy beats that indie kids who turn electronic tend to make. This would all be fine but this stuff gets talked up as dancefloor music, where it just doesn't cut the mustard.