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this is the thing is that the big pulpy cartoonish offensive slush of it is appealing to me, but speaking as a complete outsider to the culture they (at least jokingly) claim to represent, it's quite obviously an offensive & reductive representation of it. I mean clearly they're being ironic...

really can't decide if this is brilliant or the worst fucking thing, but I guess the not knowing has a value in itself.

Yeah I think the ratio of shop types to punters was probably obscene. Great night though.

I know what you mean. I guess I considered it worth writing with very specific reference to house music, but in a broader sense you'll find a pretty much identical argument in retromania and elsewhere. Tried to infuse it with a healthy dose of Adam Harper-esque optimism but I don't think that...

Bit of a false binary dontchu think? Plenty of music made by rootless suburbanites that doesn't quite have the non-place shopping mall quality of an x factor hit. Not all of it's necessarily bad.

People in the US repeatedly claim that class "doesn't exist" there, and they have one of the most stratified, socially immobile societies in the west. Obviously in the UK we have a lot of cultural baggage when it comes to class, but that also means we have developed, over the years, the tools...

If you take away all the 'non-musical' elements of music, what do you have left? fuck all. This myth that music is 'just music' and that the grounded/'real-life' factors which shape it can, and should, be ignored is a harmful thing which mostly supports/facilitates misinterpretation...

is there a Third Way?

My taste is so conflicted right now. I'm sposed to like house and techno, 90% of uk stuff sounds dull these days. help

that list makes me feel like such a fraud, don't know any of the tunes and most of them sound really dull to me. tasteful euro house/techno for adults with jobs - probably fantastic if you're an adult with a job

now this thread has gained a conscience it's not fun any more I mean it's good but it means I feel guilty about posting stuff where do you draw the line? Obviously you can't guarantee that any given PR hasn't been disadvantaged in life by factors beyond their control. At the very least they...

well said. although I do wonder sometimes - and I love house music, much more than any 'nuum' genre at this point - about that fundamental difference: with jungle, garage, dubstep whatever you always have this kind of self-destructive tendency to break down the form and move outside of it, which...

that's really nice. what kind of music is this? Is it part of a bigger thing?

Has the new pearson sound been posted here yet?

I stole this for FACT, hope you don't mind Martin it's spectacular

What does it mean?

cheers

here she is covering Seal