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Certainly up to a point, but what about bits like: Combining a small component of a bad suburban car, a post-apocalyptic vision, and a close-up of somebody's quasi-sexual scar into one image - that is pure Ballard! And the rhythm of the sentence too.

I know I could just have concocted this as an example of an ideal Dissensus thread, but seriously: I'm just reading The Atrocity Exhibition for the first time and the twisting of language, incongruous noun-collisions, almost self-parodic austerity, etc., reminds me very much of Brass Eye and...

Anyone who likes dubstep will probably enjoy the breaks sections of Tayo's recent Fabric mix.

Saw a link somewhere recently to the Myspace of a Puerto Rican reggaeton MC - about nine years old - called something like Mosquito. Does anyone know who I mean?

Scroll down towards the bottom of the January issue of the Dummy monthly email newsletter here.

It's not really fair to judge editors' current openness to grime, dubstep etc. until the next time an album comes out which 1. is really good (rules out e.g. Roll Deep) 2. you can buy in a chain shop in a small town (rules out any mixtape, stuff on Hyperdub) and 3. will result in an interesting...

She's just had a single out.

Well it matters in the sense that the Playlouder people are uncritically presenting it as a real scoop rather than just a moderately witty concept review.

That discussion we were having about violence has now been linked to by both The Guardian and Pitchfork. I wish I'd been wittier now.

But the claim isn't that any music can, on its own, can turn a non-violent person into a violent one. The claim is that hearing aggressive music at a crowded rave can be one factor (one of many) in bringing to the surface tendencies that already existed. The same thing, perhaps, that happens in...

I have no idea. I'm not trying to suggest we ban it, if that's what you mean.

If uplifting music can make people elated, and depressing music can make people sad, why is it so unthinkable that violent music can make people aggressive - or at the very least attract people with a predisposition to aggression, which is no less problematic in the long run? Clearly this can't...

How does this work?

Well, I disagree - no one can say for sure - but anyway if the actual shooting itself isn't going to affect grime, then my piece on it certainly isn't going to either. Well done Memes on the reply piece - that is exactly how all this should work.

But is it harmful to grime's prospects to be associated in the public mind with violence, or not? If yes, then clearly Crazy Titch is holding grime back, because he's generating news reports linking grime with a murder - people on this very thread have been saying things like 'Is this gonna...

What does this mean? I only have a vague idea.

Yes, because 99% of people are drones, and only Dissensus users are intellectually capable of combining multiple sources of complex information without their minds exploding. Better to eradicate nuance in case one of these sheep gets the wrong idea and refuses to buy Wiley's next album because...

Would those of you who (unlike me) actually know something about dancehall recommend this? Or is it over-commercial nonsense?

Maybe, but I don't think it's my responsibility to simplify my writing to cater to people who can't be bothered to pay proper attention to what I'm saying. Anyway, that evaluation will already be firmly in their heads when they see the original news article - at least mine suggests things have a...

Does the B-side really just its 25 minutes though?