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A recent article in Spectator Life Why do bankers love techno? by Josiah Gogarty "Bankers and other assorted finance bros are an inescapable presence on the London nightlife scene. Industry, the British-made TV drama that follows a group of graduates on (and off) a City trading floor, begins...

air guitar, air drumming, air bass, air keys - who here is irresistibly provoked to a mimetic physical response by music? confess it! and what are the kinds of music that provoke it? for me it's certain kinds of rock (not indie), certain kinds of jazz (fusion, jazz-rock). has this impulse...

Two questions for da masssive - what are the worth-a-listen single-artist albums that Moving Shadow put out, beyond the obvious (Omni - Deepest Cut)? - noticed that none of these mostly late-90s / early 2000s albums by Omni, E-Z Rollers, Dom & Roland, Flytronix, Guardians of euuch Dalliance...

A couple of things made me think of this sequel to the hugely successful Softcore Rap thread - a moment in dance similarly indexed to the wave of end-of-Eighties / very-early-Nineties positivity and vague hopefulness / hopeful vagueness. 1. reminded for the first time in decades of this group...

Yes probably this forum would tend to favor rap about gangs, guns, girl's butts, drugs and/or drug deals, boasts 'n' threats, conspicuous consumption etc. Either that or the militant hardcore - conscious and righteously rage-full But what about the softcore rap? Dreamy, goofy, quirky, floaty...

This is the place for your favorite rockstar deaths.... bizarre accidents... sundry misfortunes (No need to feel twinges of guilt - finding amusement in this kind of thing is just the Life Force asserting itself) I'll start things off with this story about Ronnie James Dio that really...

Bjork releases gabber album https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/19/i-got-really-grounded-and-loved-it-how-grief-going-home-and-gabber-built-bjorks-new-album calling Thirdform to the thread...

I thought I was a fan of ECM but - having just done a deep dive - I realised there's really only a few things I flat-out adore.... some other stuff I like.... and a vastly larger expanse of leaves-me-cold. The adores to follow shortly But anyone here a fan of Manfred Eicher Sound? Got any tips?

Am I really supposed to care that Beyonce has come up with a synopsis of 45-years of dance music?

Every country in the world has its musical shit but there is something unique about Britshit. Really truly shaky musical propositions can get surprisingly far - onto music paper covers, TV youth shows, record deals, and even into the charts. This is a thread for the shit that could only have...

people used to talk - in the nineties - about "the dub virus" but here's dub at war with the virus - meaning coronavirus

There was a time when all long-playing records - and some short-playing records - had liner notes on the back. Obligatory it was. Sometimes perfunctory and showbiz-smarmy "introducing the band" jobs... other times wanna-be hep ramblings. Then people stopped doing them - late Sixties...

There's that bit in Neon Screams about an imprisoned Vybz Kartel doing his vocals for records via cellphone A student of mine did a paper on Drakeo the Ruler recording an album using the the prison phone service provider GTL and titling the record after it. In a completely different realm...

Surely the greatest label of the first half of the Nineties. Not just in jungle, but on all fronts. The militant commitment to a vision-quest.... the sheer sustained strike rate combined with the relentless forward drive.... If you have a spare 19 hours.... (And that sweep through their...

Chatting with a musician friend, he pointed to this remix as a subliminal influence on his latest release I'd never heard it - a very nice slice of Bukem It got me thinking about that time when the market was flooded with jungle / d+b remixes of major label artists - when the remixer would...

Has anyone here read this? Just finished it - one of the strangest novels I've read. By David Lindsay, published in 1920. Not exactly science fiction, nor fantasy, but a tortured religious vision. Absurd, yet with a unsettling quality of reality and gravity that takes it out of that zone of...

YouTuber comments - "The 90s where not a good time for johnny ricky or scottie"

horrible, horrible... heads must roll for this.... but one thing I can't my head around - in my mind I think of Travis Scott's music as "file under ambient" - dreamy, wispy, electronic vapors.... "Goosebumps", "Sweet Sweet" etc The tunes don't seem designed for slam dancing and people going...

there's all these bedroom kids making jungle and dreamy D&B tunes (my own kid put me onto this stuff) seems to have no relation to any kind of real-life scene - i suspect they've never heard jungle or D&B played out through a big system - it's something they've alighted on in their wanderings...