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Hanging around music production forums, it always seems like there's a strong prevelance for a rather old-fashioned romantic notion of what a musician (or other artist) Should Be if they're going to produce anything worth shit. The particular characteristics are: 1) being true only to their...

This kind of comes out of a few posts and articles that I've seen recently where people seem to dismiss dubstep out of hand based on the assumption that it's just ploddy halfstep wobble all night every night. Lots of people in the dubstep scene are wary of dubstep making the same mistakes as...

BBC4, 10pm tonight. Could be interesting. There's a season of related stuff on at random intervals over the next month or so, including some potentially quite good stuff. They're showing Gimme Shelter and Cracked Actor, and the Pop Britannia series (cf all the other X Britannias) may or may...

I picked up his 'Introduction to the Theories of Popular Culture' for cheap in a charity shop. Is it an alright read for a theory-curious type? Is it partisan in ways that are worth bearing in mind or off the mark on particular subjects or anything like that? Thanks!

What are some good / interesting things to do in London without spending too much money? My girlfriend's recently moved down there (Finsbury Park, specifically) and we're after places to hang out / things to visit on a fairly tight budet. The obvious stuff (big museums, parks etc) should keep...

What are people's thoughts on the current crop? I have to admit I'm really loving Cockney Thug - it's just so upful and I love the way it has really funky garage inflected percussion over a real knuckle dragger of a wobble and cheesefest trumpets. Plus it has swearing in which we all know is...

I've always seen this as a fairly urban-centric forum, but how many of you actually get out into the coutryside for fun? Walking, climbing, canoeing, caving (although I'm not sure whether this can really be considered 'outdoors'), mountain biking, whatever... I'm a pretty keen hillwalker, and...

Do you bother? If someone (online or IRL) starts banging on about how it's all just tuneless bollocks and there's no skill in it (not like 'real' music) and the only function any sort of dance music has to perform is to keep the beat steady so drunk people can dance at each other and hopefully...

Oh my life. If anyone feels that they don't have enough anger in their lives, I'd strongly advise them to watch this programme. I'm normally a bit of an apologist for rockism, but this programme was astonishingly shit. I mean, I don't mind the fact that it's a series about rock to the exclusion...

Has anyone seen them mix? How good are they? They're at Sub Club in Glasgow on saturday playing "many aspects of reggae influenced dancehall forms" with Tikiman toasting. But Equinox and Breakage are on at the Ferry the same night. As is Richie Hawtin at the Arches. *decisions* You wait ages...

Can anyone give a rough outline and / or a reference to some good reading on the hows and whys of serialism? AFAICT, yer basic twelve tone composition grew up as a way of making sure that your music avoids having even a fleeting tonal centre, but it's not clear why that's such an essential thing...

There's been a lot of technology coming out recently that makes the concept of 'live' electronic music seem less like a contradiction in terms. In particular, software like Ableton Live and (in a less high profile way) EnergyXT allow you to really blur the lines between a DJ set, a mash up, and...

So... A lot of people here rave about Ballard, but the only book of his that I've read is Super Cannes, which I couldn't stand - is there other stuff that he's written that I'm more likely to like / that is acknowledged to be better? Fwiw, my problem with Super Cannes is that it reads like a...