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Bandshell mate what are you still doing here, you're too famous for this board now

The hooliganism thing you might well be right about. The racial segregation (or lack thereof) though, surely that's down to far far deeper factors than rave culture. Things dating back decades if not centuries, rather than a culture whose heyday lasted less than a decade. If anything rave's...

Nothing ever did change though. As far as I know no dance music has ever ushered in political change of any significance. At best it functions as a kind of demilitarised zone where oppressed people can temporarily (and it is always temporary) escape the normative pressures of wider society; at...

yes and yes funnily enough there are minidisc-compressed sounds on the Lee Gamble LP, apparently (tvashar, not diversions).

I don't get why it seems to be an either/or thing for you guys, except as an expression of fervent nuum-belief - this idea that one of these two sounds is the potential next iteration, the next in line, and outside of that they essentially have no value. In reality they've clearly got v little...

not with her profit margins I wouldn't have thought

Grimes has to be up there. They're just weak songs, substanceless, flimsy - with the exception of maybe genesis & oblivion. but people respond to her image I think. Actually a great summation of the nature of her success this year - they actually went to the effort of trailing one of her music...

yeah I get what you're saying about jackin', but I do worry that the merit you find in it is a little too closely mapped to the ways in which reynolds says that hardcore/jungle/garage etc. were good. For me that's an aesthetic framework that only has v limited traction in contemporary music -...

good read man, thanks. I disagree with bits of it though. Particularly that Jackin is superior to the current London stuff because it is not internetty: This view that anything which occurs online is inherently 'unreal' compared to IRL interaction, and therefore its products are less...

well the legal line here is obviously that, if you're under the designated age of consent, you are legally incapable of consenting. In reality of course there are shades of grey beyond the shouty Mail headlines - some things are self-evidently worse than others. But acknowledging that is...

To backtrack a bit...are y'all making the point that because Peel was open about his crimes and 'aware of how his situation results in some very unpleasant perceptions of him', he is somehow no longer guilty? glad we've got that sorted - you can fuck kids as long as you're self-aware while...

that's such a weak analysis of what hyperdub have been up to this year

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/12/14/scratching-the-surface-the-spectrum-of-bass-in-2012/ Interesting point here about lots of these UK labels 'devolving' back to parent genres: hemlock & hotflush broadly towards techno of various stripes, night slugs towards ghetto house, etc.. With...

"Everybody felt in love at least once in his life to experience the variety of emotions that one’s goes through when in love."

that is fucking godawful

Read a blogpost last night about Muslimgauze being an anti-semitic genocide apologist. Won't link to is as it was pretty mouth-frothy, but perhaps that's something else the two have in common - a certain ambivalence in the way they present themselves in relation to their subject matter. Fernow...

There are some middle eastern acapellas used in the recent LP for Modern Love. Don't know any MG so can't comment on the similarities (although interestingly Chris from mnml ssgs was going on about VS being a MG rip off on twitter a few weeks back).

well, fair point maybe. Unfortunately not every record is an open and shut case when it comes to reviewing it - I think it would be disingenuous to claim otherwise. The review is honest, if that counts for anything - I stand by it. I'm guessing if I'd loved it but 'couldn't quite put my finger...

from the same: I think they have the wrong guy

I really tried to like it but I failed. Can't quite put my finger on why - it's just a kind of unsatisfying listen. critical response generally seems to be fairly muted...although I'm only extrapolating from a couple of reviews so maybe not