just to say that from my experience, if this is to happen to you it's definitely going to have to happen in a club
also, it probably would have happened about six years ago and have left you thinking that it's all gone to cock since 2005.
and, before i'm publicly outed, yes, i was at fwd on friday and no i didn't enjoy it very much, tho i will concede that it was good to see the generals and skepta!
on a more serious note, my answer to this question has to be anything even vaguely broken beat/west london/new jazzish.
sure, there were plenty of good songs within this genre and lots of really good producers.
in the past i've really enjoyed stuff by ig culture, seiji, even jazzanova.
i've even have had a lot of fun at nights like co-op (hell, in a weird, roundabout kind of way, i even met my girlfriend there), so i really don't want to make it sound like i think everything about this scene is terrible. it's not. if nothing else, some of the people involved are really lovely on a purely personal level.
however, i have to say that it totally does my nut in.
obviously the centrality of knowledge and tastefulness are all very much part of the mod/jazz/soulboy tradition, so it's almost pointless saying that this is annoying. it's so much a part of the whole thing that if you get irritable about stuff like that (which i do quite often) you've really got no business listening to any of it in the first place.
still, the lack of discernment of listeners, the discouragement of criticism either in or outside of the scene and the almost total non-existence of quality control among its artists is quite flabbergasting at times — and completely totally contrary to the general uppitiness referred to earlier.
i'm only saying this because i made the mistake of reviewing a seiji compilation in the wire a while ago, positively and deservedly so. since then i've been deluged with shite like i've never even imagined existed before.
one recent package actually contained one of the most hateful things i've ever seen. it's an album on sonar kollektiv with an accompanying haute cuisine recipe book and fine wine list to accompany every track.
needless to say you don't need to hear this to know that it's an apalling idea, but it actually made me feel pretty queasy to even read about.