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I really love this track, from 2002 http://www.last.fm/music/London+Elektricity/_/Billion+Dollar+Gravy Anyone who is interested in dnb as more than just a jungle resample, check that out, tell me what you think.

Can i just say, this is genius. Completely skewers this history book from the 80s I'm reading. Although I can totally see, within my field (musicology), what the motivations behind such language were.

This track is baaad

This is interesting: Somebody put Chase + Status - Eastern Jam over the video it samples - I think it works quite nicely.

The disparity of the metaphorical georaphic references there never quite struck me before - Carribean Islands/North Pole meet in freezing carnival London?

The old stuff was focused I feel - do you know what I mean? Edit: And yeah, Joker's not at all, he's all about the synth edits and tricksy hi-hat patterns and so on.

Or maybe I won't even form an opinion, in my ever-expanding quest to judge and categorize the world, and rather I'll just let 'Diamonds and Pearls' float by really loud while I skank like a loon.

But then, that's a bit of shit statement to make - 'dubstep' can't be shit or degenre-ating (woowoo!) if Zomby is making good tunes. I'll go listen to the tunes properly and then form an opinion, rather than the other way around.

Yeah, that's what I meant - I was referring to 'dubstep' generally, not Zomby. Zomby's probably wicked, I just haven't been to a record shop in a while and so have only heard mp3s of the tunes :(

If I saw that in my town I'd go.

Pretentious crap is when you say things you know are wrong to sound right.

hahahahaha :)

Prosaically but nervously, Masters' applications

Wow. The bit at 6:00 in the last one where he... well, I don't wanna give it away if you haven't seen, I think the power comes from watching the whole thing before hand, but that chills me, thats so moving.

I think I read in an old (like mid 90s) interview with Goldie that his (step? real?) brother went to jail at some point - he drew a comparison between his own motivation, due to having been at an orphanage, and his brother's descent into criminal activities because he'd had a family. But I don't...

Yeah, I agree - I was really dissapointed that the awesome (film?) sample about "nothing" from the Hyperdub myspace clip wasn't actually in the tunes. And I loved the Quarta 330 and the Ikonika and esp. the LV. and Bad of course. But the t-shirt is lovely. Edit: but then again, going back to...

Slothrop: A quite famous musicologist at Berkeley, Richard Taruskin, has made this one of his main hobby-horses - it almost pervades his quite recent (2005) and mammoth (five volume) Oxford History of Western Music. If you have access to Jstor or similiar, read his article 'The Poietic Fallacy'...

That's what I find so interesting about the odd time signatures - if you just count one-two-three-four-five-six-seven on the beat you sound like a total nerd, so to speak, but there are ways of splitting it up that sound incredibly funky. Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps that's true...

That's a quite slow 5/4 - the 'bass drum' is on the one. As for Egowar, I didn't listen extremely carefully, but it seems like the opening bell-y section is in 4/4, but a completely different (slower) 4/4 to the rest of the band which comes in at 1:30ish. And I think they don't always stick to...

Does anybody else find that the music playing in the background in most of the Soho record shops (BM, Phonica, etc) is too loud to comfortably enjoy or sometimes even hear the records you're listening to? Or alternately, get really annoyed that the shop (eg. Sister Ray, Soul Jazz) won't entrust...