bassnation
the abyss
If nothing else, his reputation stays standing because he was one of the first people to stick his neck out and take an interest in the cheesy disposable side of dance music and to actually start thinking seriously about stuff that most critics were writing off as lowest common denominator trash. The fact that we're having this conversation at all speaks volumes for his influence.
well, unless you count all the kids from the council estates and proto-chavs riding round in their mums cars booming hardcore out of the sound system. those people were the scene, which had already been in existence for some time when simon had his road to damascene conversion described so vididly in energy flash. i love simon's writing, but at the end of the day he is a critic. sometimes its easy to forget that critics come after the fact. i've read energy flash several times and it makes me proud that he's documented with so much love something so close to my heart - but the scene would have existed and have meant the same with or without energy flash.
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