Who are the best music journalists currently/ever?
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luka
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You should have come and met me and barty when we begged you to. We're young.
john eden
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luka
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I can see how that might lead to fallings out, yes.
Taking my dissensus house style into personal relationships is not a good thing as a rule
i think over egging your visceral reaction to music is pretty crucial for reviews but i suppose that conveying any genuine commitment might be pretty impossible if youre a resident advisor style hack. my favorite "proper" reviews from the last couple of years were probably on the low company website, and theres a fair bit of "ball choppingly good" sshenanigans there, but you also get the sense that there is an at times breathlessly exciting world of thousands of singular swedish noise freaks and teenage psyche prodigies from scunthorpe completely dedicated to their vital path.
i probably listened to 3% of the records on there but the energy they put in was impressive. but its also welcome to read anything that doesn't sound like a undergraduate art history press release.
i probably listened to 3% of the records on there but the energy they put in was impressive. but its also welcome to read anything that doesn't sound like a undergraduate art history press release.
john eden
male pale and stale
I found that people in their early twenties (and teenagers) got quite irritating when I was in my 30s. Probably that was quite healthy. I like them now though and it's good because I am well past the age where there can be any ambiguity about our relationships.
luka
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Me too. There was a period when I was stuck working in coffee shops in my 30s and it became intolerable because of this. They wanted me to die and I felt the same about them.
john eden
male pale and stale
Well I am (a bit) and what works for me is:
1. Not making it central to my identity
2, Linking stuff to other things I have always liked (Drill -> Grime -> Fast chat MCs for example, but also Girls Aloud -> Soft Cell -> sixties girl bands)
3. Asking younger people about this stuff rather than lecturing them about it.
Yeah, that was just my reaction to that specific situation. He was there, talking to the Sugababes, who were talking about their career aspirations in the industry, and you could read him, between the lines, despairing.
Didn't anybody play him Amerie?
tell him to make a speedcore 2step hybrid, the dem 2 micro edits double timed to the 2step beats, but they are gabberised.
john eden
male pale and stale
LOL that sounds great and he loves Dem 2 but I think that's optimistic.
There's no danger. you just grow out of it. Music just demands more of a commitment when you're less naive. It's the only way to form the future without being locked into the momentum of inevitably transient youth cultures. There was a lot of shit dance music in the 90s, totally irredeemable. Be that the eurodance end or the one bar bongo loop tribal techno end. Same with 70s jazz, heaps of shite. loads of wank punk. and don't even get started on anticon.
quite a bit of decently good but not great jungle from its golden age as well. the journalist is never a participant in the culture so the hard work is always done for them. Their job is really quite easy. cratedigging is antithetical to the music journalist, though not necessarily the critic outside of that circuit.
version
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What's wrong with fading away?