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Fair point, but I was just following up the discussion about full-length albums by dubstep artists - and Mark One's is the only one I've got. I'd like to hear dubstep that sounded SIGNIFICANTLY different to Mark One; most of what my admittedly uneducated ear has encountered doesn't sound that...

Totally, which is why I think that no matter how ludicrous the fantasies they chat about are, grime and hip hop tend to be Capitalist Realist - in that their basic picture of humanity and the social is so predatory and venal. I couldn't answer that, I didn't go to clubs much, I just listened...

That's exactly my feeling... and it's significant that you use the term 'songs' rather than 'tracks', that seems appropriate... re: Dubstep albums... I just listened to the whole Mark One lp and I had that same response I invariably have with dubstep. First coupla minutes of the first track...

Ah, that was so short-lived that it completely passed me by, I'm afraid. :) Enlighten me! Since I can't answer that question lol maybe I could make some general remarks on gender, the hardcore continuum etc... The key reference point is Simon's piece on 2step from 99 (in which both Bat and...

I agree that's one big comparison, which is why I said in my piece it was like Dub City as opposed to Vocalcity - but I think Burial are so rich that they make you hear many parallels. One way in which Luomo are a clear precedent is in the confident use of a full-length album. I can't think of...

Aha, Sex and the City !

Don't we have to take seriously the role of a female population in a scenius, though? In a mixed scene, female desire is bound to shape production...

lol, yes... but if grime vox are in the structural position of 'the sweet', it's no wonder dubstep can seem oppressive at times...

Yep, I think one of the things that is encouraging about the interview is that Burial both wants to 'stay underground' AND wants women to like it...

OK, I guess my problem here is twofold. 1. In much of the dubstep I've heard, there seems to be too much 'dub' and not enough 'step' ... 2. That rendition of dub ('massive crushing basslines, delay and reverbed caverns of sound') precisely surrenders it to the punitive/ reductive definition I...

I fully take all these points about dubstep working much better in a club space, but that still means it is lacking something for me. For instance, I heard jungle on cassettes long before I ever heard it played out, and it blew me away. Course going to the clubs took it to a whole new level...

No, not yet... but I'm sold...

Posted that last one before seeing your latest Gek... but it seems to follow on from what you were saying, which is handy...

To elaborate - I think the best dub always has a relationship to a certain sweetness of (the) Song. The white take-up of dub has often seemed to think that you can make dub more intense by entirely removing those elements and simply turning up the bass. A parallel error was made in jungle, when...

Autonomic - fabulous post, further proof that this album is inspiring I take your point with respect to 'hardcore continuum' - maybe blissblogga could defend its continued use? - but I don't see any better alternatives atm; 'dance music' has horrific associations (Mixmag etc). I expected folk...

Thanks chaps... 1. I actually, genuinely can't believe how good this album is... I'm having trouble listening to anything else, and every time I do listen to it, I find something new in it. 2. The grups piece is annoyingly smug in tone, but it does point to a real phenomenon (might even be...

Nothing at all. That was my point. The quote clearly has nothing to do with psychoanalysis.

Ah, contentless jeering, misspellings galore (including the name of the person you are abusing), topped off with a nationalist stereotype. 10 million posts: zero insight, interest or care in any of them.

Astrology might be opposed to commonsense, but it is not opposed to the reality PRINCIPLE. It presents itself as a straightforwardly realist account of the cosmos; psychoanalysis can't consistently do that, because it has a theory OF the reality principle. Freud's positivism was bound to come to...

Drugs and the psycho mafia One of the many merits of psychoanalysis is its hostility to commonsense and the reality principle. The currently dominant multinational-funded psychiatric pharmacological model of 'good mental health', on the contrary, is pure normativity. Surely there should be far...