Recent content by meatstixx

I think there is a slight twinge of Yes / Sky / Gentle Giant to the rustie album but it's not there in spades, its more of a colouration thing, glass swords is not a progressive rock album at all nor one that is particularly rock at all, acoustic snares aside. and it's certainly no more maximal...

Really disliked the maximalism piece by simon, firstly I thought he already dismissed Hudson Mohawke and the "wonky" meme a couple or years ago as being a product of ketamine? That was hilarious bollocks. Now he groups it all together under a new tag, throwing in the thundercat album which is a...

he smashed it at field day. proper techno for the first 20 minutes to a packed dancefloor.

totally boring remark over here (a lurker writes) - i am really enjoying the music of this "period" whether it's a "holding pattern" or a "transition" or the changing of the guard or whatever it is. its healthy that people are able to draw instant inspiration from obscure old dance tracks they...

i can't post it I will when I can.

psyched for the Danny Brown album, now he's signed to Fools Gold and has picked some interesting producers. i think its gonna surprise some people.

wookie learned his craft as one of the ghostproducers of Soul II Soul.. makes sense doesn't it. "on the run from soul 2 soul but you can never.." - battle.

this is it. and if the detached criticism is at fault, as we all seem to agree, why intensify it by parroting message boards, which are the furthest point away from what the dancefloor is really like these days.

After 20 years of going to clubs, you aught to have a basic understanding that a waveform sounds completely different through a 5k rig, particularly if it has a lot of energy and voltage in the bottom octave as this music does. The fundamental difference in the experience would be intensified by...

you know Zomby uses Reason and nothing else right? pretty mad. He manages to get such an un-reason-y sound. as some have said, the best way is to combine different things, digital, analog, cracked plugins and outboard hardware. i'd reckon that actress uses a mix of different tools.

okay dave i'll ride for this one. hardcore and juke have a key similarity in the way that vocal are pitched up, chopped up and resampled, particularly in a "chipmunk" style. when i first heard juke i thought it sounded like hardcore.

very sad to hear this story. its very hard to see through the rumour, the conjecture and the fact at this point. i think the honest truth that i've witnessed is that all the regulars - many of whom have been going to parties there that pre-date fwd and the like, many that go back a decade in...

don't know that story, would like to though. lots of nicking went on but it was for the good of the sound not the bad. after all theres only 5 break beats in jungle.

dillinja sampled the intro of Bukem's "a couple of beats" (flipside of demons theme) and used that as the basis for many of his tracks. it has a nice bit of sub that sits under the drums and is perfect to build on. I think you can hear that on Deadly Deep Subs and the like.

its important to point out that the system (function one) was one of the first to be installed in London (ie before function 1 became the ubiquitous force it is in clubland). The space itself was never designed to host the kind of parties that it became renowned for - originally Ade himself...