cba writing some big response cos im hungover, but tim:
while writing that article, ive also been talking to marcus nasty about doing a big interview with him, which would feature a lot of us discussing that wave of midlands bassline guys making funky (screama, emvee etc) and his role as a kind of scene godfather right now, looking beyond the obvious & bringing in young djs, mcs etc.
he's gone pretty quiet on the idea despite me trying to call him quite a bit, so it's not happened so far. on the other hand, all those dudes gave interviews and knocked out mixes like it was nothing. just so you know.
like i said in that ilx thread, you talk about this bias in the mag towards scratcha/roska/cooly and against ill blu and that, but then you look at the tracks of the year feature, and there's one cooly track, one kode9 track, and no roska and scratcha. meanwhile dj mystery, doneao, altered natives, crazy cousinz, sticky, shystie and fuzzy logik are all in there. ill blu are in there twice, including at #6. i cant speak for everyone at fact but it was stuff like that that first drew me to funky anyway.
i dont even think it's that seperated man. like when marcus had that up-n-coming djs special recently, one of them played a bok bok track. another one played a heatwave refix. is there a division between terror danjah/src/swindle and other grime producers because the first three have signed tracks to hyperdub/numbers/mu? i dont think there is.
tim i'm obviously gona pitch the column idea, glad yr up for it.
