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One thing that's worth talking about is how shit the graphic language of d&b had got by this point - the record sleeves, the labels.... These peripherals always more indicative than you might imagine.

"Everything else was shit too" = not the most persuasive argument for listening to something.

Surely it only takes ears to hear how far jungle deteriorated between '94 and '98 This is just a B-side and there's more going on in it

We were in the same milieu of people living in New York writing for Village Voice. Erik contributed to the music section like me, but he also about wrote for the Voice but all kinds of other things - the sort of interests that fed into Techgnosis and his later books. It usually took these...

I did! I suspect he was a bit bemused by it, with all the MCs jabbering. I don't remember getting much enthused feedback about it anyway! His taste probably ran more to the Aphex end of thing. I remember a bunch of us going to NASA though, the breakbeat hardcore club in NYC. I was...

I enjoyed that record but isn't it a case of "bang on schedule, just in a different part of the world - somewhere you wouldn't necessarily expect this kind of thing to be going on"?

Blue Aeroplanes's Gerard Langley incanted his own poetry over the music, but on this tune he used a poem by Kenneth Patchen

Why would there need to be a settled definition? It was a conversation about music, in the same way that punk was a discourse - a site for disagreement and feeling things out. (There were at least six different ideas of what punk was about and why it needed to come into existence. Same with most...

aunterlogikal ardkore is a thing, yes - and has been a thing for over 20 years actually. The first ardkore replica-remake /time-travel exercise I know of was 1997, by this producer Jega - "Card Hore" - on Skam. Perhaps it's revisiting too-recent history to really feel haunted but definitely...

Well, I suppose the idea of a "lost future" is inherently melancholy But that's the larger frame for music-making that in its discrete instances had quite a wide spectrum of moods and vibes If you take a group like Position Normal, or quite a lot of the Ghost Box stuff, or Moon Wiring Club...

I would say "no" - cos rather a lot of it was jaunty or idyllic. Some of it was even comedic. And even the stuff that could be taken as downbeat or melancholy, I think the aim at least was to be eerie, unsettling, macabre, etc - as opposed to merely morose or gloomy. Of course I could be...

Oh ye Oh yeah I forgot about Dom & Rob. It's fairly spectacularly unpleasant to my ears, but of course for Third it's lightweight bizniz!

Moving Shadow, to be fair, did also put out some harder stuff in the late '90s - the Dom & Roland, which I was quite taken with then but hasn't really endured with me. Moving Shadow also did a very gnarly techsteppy track that I think was commemorating the 100th Release - Rob Playford and...

Did also really love the previous Dave Wallace solo single. It's got a bit of a Joe Jackson "Stepping Out" vibe.

I did get all the way to about 1997 and more or less the same thing happened in the relisten as during the real-time following the label - I just couldn't continue with it once the sound got to be bongos and that kind of thing. I mean there was a few nice things - and I had a bit more enjoyment...

Beau Travail is surely the winner, but its effect comes from being this completely unexpected catharsis after such a tense, caged-energy sort of film This scene is similarly unexpected

Taking the thread title narrowly as meaning scenes in clubs or raves (as opposed to dance routines in musicals, of which there's so many), this 35 second burst of intensity really hit me when I saw it in the movie theatre, for capturing what it feels like to be on a techno dancefloor (helped by...

"To most people, the words “Paradise Lost” will conjure repressed memories of 10th grade English and compulsory subjection to literary poetry. Only a very select few will know that it is also the title of one of the most sought-after 45s in existence—a five-and-a-ha"lf-minute horn-laden soul...

listening to this old fave from 2005 and suddenly struck by the fact that it features ad libs - a running commentary of jeering, taunting, scoffing - growls, gnashings, percussive mouth-noise - the occasional almost decipherable word questions A/ is this way in advance of the Americans...