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Olive (whose Extra-Virgin album is the stock water bubbles cover you are talking about, I think) /= DJ Olive. DJ Olive's solo material is okay. I think I like the other two guys who were in We more. Agriculture is hit or miss, but the Nettle and David Last records are both quite good and the...

Actually listening to O.H.M. right now. Wordsound was good stuff if a bit in it's own little molasses slow beats world which I guess is an acquired taste. I can't actually listen to an entire Sensational album myself, but in small doses he can be startling good. Apparently Skiz is going to be...

I can't say I care much about the Ele album either, but I'm shocked that it's taken so long for him to get something together. Clearly the time to release this album was on the heels of the Lil Jon remixes and the Puma commercials and Sean Paul's success, etc, not three+ years later when the...

It was always a stupid myopic way of looking at (UK dance) music and only got stupider post-jungle as people tried to stuff an increasingly diverse array of genres in to no avail. It would be nice if people would shut up about it, but I doubt we've heard the last of nuum talk (as that annoying...

Wow Huge props to John for getting this to me in basically a heartbeat (from UK to SF!) I ordered it on Tuesday afternoon at 4-ish and it was sitting in my mailbox when I went home for lunch. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it looks great.

Ragga-jungle never really died though (at least in Toronto haha.) I think it's hipster cache moment in the sun was probably 3-4 years ago with the Soundmurderer mix and the Remarc collections and the first Shockout stuff. I can't quite see it ever moving much beyond that fringe and I'm...

I care about Saian Supa Crew. The last album is really good!

I'd pick Sizzla if I had to be limited to just the two, but I'll pick Capleton if I can choose whomever I want.

Iron Flag is great!

It is a mystery isn't it? There is a Roll Deep remix over Scoobay on one of the singles which is really good. I'd rather hear more of that than another freestyle over a Dipset track.

He also compiled a bunch of absolute monster CDs for Rewind-Selecta (among others.) The Lovers Rock collections are essential (as was the Dub one at the time although it's since been somewhat superseded by other stuff.)

Tom Breihan thinks a lot of things that are wrong.

Haha so you are just a wind up artist. Got it.

I can barely understand one sentence you wrote in that first paragraph and your "point" in the second paragraph is just plain wrong. Hip hop had little or nothing to do with the genesis of house or techno. The line to those genres go through disco, through Kraftwerk, through Moroder, through...

"Clear" was released on Fantasy in '83 and it's release post-dates "Planet Rock" by a little. It may have been recorded earlier though. Cybotron had two other singles "Alleys of Your Mind" (1981) and "Cosmic Cars" (1982) in a similar Kraftwerk-ian vein which both definitely pre-date "Planet...

Crisp clean answers: No I can't. Yes. Mills clearly was. But Underground Resistance were probably the only Detroit techno who actively borrowed ideas from hip hop. They also like jazz a lot I hear. No I don't think that. Nothing indicates to me that anything that was going on in NY in the...

So all black people making music with synthesizers/samples/beats are the same? Oooookay.

Uh no they weren't. Detroit techno was primarily a black middle class phenomenon in a city which had yet to fall into absolute grimness. In NY hip hop was happening in the midst of a city which was absolutely grim. And once it "crossed-over" it became a totally arty bohemian phenomenon for a...

Have you even read an interview with any of those Detroit techno guys? I mean they were far from obsessed with hip hop. They didn't care about it all. They were all over P-Funk stuff like "Flashlight" and Ital Disco and the colder end of new wave, not Bambatta and Grandmaster Flash. If there...

No offense, but you don't know what you are talking about. Those Detroit techno and Chicago house guys cared a hell of a lot more about the more robotic end of disco than they did about hip hop DJs or breakbeats. Disco created the cult of the DJ and the fetish of the 12" mix. That hip hop and...