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and i really do want to say that dancehall and reggaeton have changed the rap game here, but the cynic/realist in me knows that's not true.

hey, it worked for bush and radiohead.

i am not entirely surprised by the wiley numbers (for fucksake if you're going to spend the money signing, pressing, and liscensing an album then fucking PROMOTE it...this is a problem across the board in the industry right now, shrinking promo budgets, and it affects everyone from aging indie...

i i think if anything slowing everything down and removing the impetus to seamless mixing has just highlighted (without wanting to get all "ghetto archipelago" on you) the connections between all these musics...you can now hear the sound of dancehall in the beats, miami bass snares, etc etc.

while i can understand gareth's (and other's) reluctance to hear sonic carryover from rave/jungle/ukg in grime, i have to agree with paul that i can clearly hear all of them still. for example: - you heard mentasms in "garage rap" right up through (at least) early 2003, and i doubt we've heard...

baltimore breaks is great, but a little goes a long way. (imagine idiot go-go cut with the earliest breakbeat house/hardcore stuff minus the ecstacy bits and plus a lot of cheeky redd foxxian humor and you're close.) when it's playing, i am firmly convinced that dj assault's <i>straight up...

surely "forward" is the total essence of ardkore though? just total brock out stimulant overload. the first time i heard it (walking down the street) i felt like my heart was going to explode. (admittedly sentiments like "shoot them shoot them shoot them" might run counter to the vibe.) there's...

yeah where is that from? (and while we're at it, where's that film/tv sample that's all over the shy fx album from?) (and, no, not goodfellas before some ass gets clever.) p.s. get ready for a lot more grime in pfork.

no hating on "flowers"

this sounds like the greatest thing ever.

paul that "abstract 2-step" mix you did is one of the best dj mixes i have, full stop.

gutted i missed this actually...if only it was on saturday night! oh well, cat isn't going to feed itself.

but yeah, the futureheads rock. (even if they sound like a barbershop quartet version of wire and ripped off the riff from "complete control" wholesale for one song.) (shuddup old man they rool)

i dont develop shruggism because the stuff i hear that makes me shrug is in one ear and out the other so fast i cant even recall it to shrug to later. my whole listening life is a constant battle between a premature cranky old man and a wide-eyed kid. when the cranky old man finally wins, i will...

i thought we had heard the last of him, but this is heartening news. at the end of the day he's probably my favorite grime producer still.

big news is that dj clever is going to be doing volume five of breakbeat science's exercise series. tracklist looks great.

(i mean...<i>jan 31st, 2003</i>...when i think about what jungle/ukg did in two years...get cracking, youse!)

i think what bothers me most about discussions like this is that if these publications people seem to hate so much are actually reviewing these records, it's because <i>they have entered into mass culture</i>. like in a few weeks, when my store will begin selling <i>run the road</i> to middle...

i think her next single should be a cover of "jenny from the block" just to cheez you guys off even further.

ironically, many of the views expressed on this thread are very similar to those expressed on pitchfork. except, you know, more "street." in my own wiley review (for, gasp!, a [possibly] major american publication) i made a point of talking up how relentlessly positive he really is at heart.