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Slightly off topic but am the same re: podcasts (you should check out The Champs if you don't already listen to it - any recommendations in terms of US Comedy/Hip Hop/Politics would be appreciated as well). I don't think its related to a desire for personal contact though for me, if anything it...

Cant you (or someone) just give it a name? Using a tempo as a name for a genuine 'thing' is constrictive or at best confusing.

That first album in particular was really strong - Cry Me a River is flawless. I was surprised when I saw that it would be solely Timbaland-produced given that Timbaland seems to be a few years into a steady decline (this is where he is now: ). But then who do you go to now for quality Pop/R&B...

Trying to blindly ascribe influence is pretty pointless (despite it seemingly being a favourite past-time of music journos) but Prince was one of the first to introduce RnB that ignored bass as a rhythmic device and drew all the focus to big drums and a simple catchy, melodic keyboard hook -...

A lot of R.I.P. reminded me of those 'click on the boxes and make music' apps: http://www.jeffwu.net/?page_id=967

That commentary is immense!

I get the impression that Dre's status plays a part though - he probably made 'Hate it or Love It' sound that bit cleaner so it punched through better on radio. Im sure if he'd been a no-name engineer then Cool and Dre wouldnt have been like 'damn this mix has transformed the song, we need to...

I was thinking about this when I heard Annie Mac talking about 'Trap' a couple of months ago - I got the impression from how she was talking about it that if I were to play her a Lex Luger beat she probably wouldn't recognise it as 'Trap'.

I spent way too large a part of my late teens, stoned somewhere, listening to really average rappers with horrible cadence rhyme 'lyrical' with 'metaphysical'. I cant imagine what it would be like to grow up in NY/Atlanta/LA etc where at least a couple of the people around you might be decent...

I find 2 Chainz wholly forgettable despite trying to pay attention to him. Fair play to the guy for the late career resurgence though. God Forgives is really plastic and dull but worth a listen just for Andre 3000's verse on Sixteen.

Like a G6 is great, I could play that in a wedding set and not feel like I had lost integrity - I couldn't say the same for any of the Guetta tunes I've heard though. All this stuff is like musical jagermeister - if you're at home, sober, looking for depth in the music then you're not really...

I really don't get Disclosure at all but they're the first producers to break that've been roughly 10 years younger than me so I guess Im just getting old.

So are you saying that England's defence is weak compared to other Euro 2012 teams? Terry obviously doesnt have the pace he used to but I'd still pick him ahead of Per Mertesacker for instance. Imo England have a stronger defence than Germany and Spain, they are just an incoherent mess...

Did you watch the first leg of Barcelona v Chelsea? Cahill, Terry and Cole were brilliant in that game. I know the supposed lessons of Chelsea's Champs league win can be easily overstated, but if those 3 can reproduce that sort of form, with Hart in goal, England should have a strong defensive unit.

Its good to see so little hype regarding England's chances. I do think England potentially have one of the best defences in the competition in Terry, Cahill, Cole and Johnson though (as much as I hate the fact Terry is going). I can see England losing all the group games and can also just about...

I thinks its a combination of the way modern living is going and the economic realities of running a magazine/website in 2012. I'd imagine that very few if any of the magazines operating in the house/dubstep/grime spheres would have the money to commission investigative, embedded journalism. I...

Fact seem to me to be publishing more and more 'news' like this these days: http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/08/m-i-a-turns-her-hand-to-designing-beer-bottle-labels-and-reveals-a-few-matangi-details-in-the-process/ That type of music journalism frustrates me way more than poorly written opinion...

Its probably an obvious point but Apple are hugely responsible for the cultural shift towards disinterest in sound quality. I watched the first ipod presentation when Jobs died and the way he is lauding 160kbps is laughable, its like watching a used car salesman. Apple get so much credit for the...

As I thought I said above, Im talking about mixing one tune into another, not lots of stems from different tunes all mixed together. This is the sort of thing I find strange, why would you presume them to be 320s when it could be a bunch of other reasons to do with the soundsystem as to why...

I agree in terms of people getting a load of stems from different tunes and throwing them all together in Ableton, that would probably be horrible for the most part. Yet when you mix in and out of a tune you are layering sounds that have not been properly EQ-ed together - so it doesnt make any...