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Paul Oldfield always used to say this reminded him of Joy Division, that very simple deep-droning bassline <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hBcQcbjPv7I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> i think more Comsat Angels, with the drum sound

always felt this had a jolting, choppy feel that looked ahead to Wire and Devo <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mfNOleQQFUM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> but also casts back to <iframe width="420" height="315"...

Had the same experience when I went to Little Haiti in Miami in 1998. There was what I thought was a record store with some cool stuff but when I tried to buy a record the shop owner looked perplexed, as if that was a crazy request. Realised after a bit that punters came in and he would tape...

i think that's different. there's been any number of people railing against, or calling for an end to, irony and disengagement -- calling for a return to sincerity and commitment. David Foster Wallace is probably the most famous, and possibly the first, but there was a guy in the US, young...

i think you're onto something people don't care about authenticity in the sense of a persona being grounded in some reality of the self or how it correlates with social background or any of those metrics of credibility / cred it's about the convincingness of the persona in that performance...

think this dude may also be talking about what Luka is talking about, albeit from a different angle - what the dude calls Performatism http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/322-performatism-or-what-comes-after-postmodernism-new-architecture-in-berlin (ignore the stuff about architecture...

For every black 70s funkateer or jazz-fusionist using synths or drum machines (sly on Riot, Stevie Wonder, herbie H) there is a white counterpart doing the same thing either at the same time or earlier (tangerine dream, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Pink Floyd, White Noise, 50 Foot House etc)...

aka blissblogger 1/ LETHAL B featuring FUMIN, D DOUBLE E, NAPPA, JAMAKABI, NEEKO, FLOW DAN, OZZI B, FORCER, DEMON, & HOT SHOT --"POW (FORWARD)" 2/ Dizzee Rascal, “I Luv U” b/w “Vexed” 3/ Big E.D. /Terror Danjah “Frontline (Creepy Crawler Mix)” 4/ JAMMER featuring WILEY, D DOUBLE E...

peter shapiro's interview with Rammellzee for the Wire, 1997 http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4508/

video teaser for Rammellzee's room at Art in the Streets exhibition, Los Angeles

what do you think of lil wayne, luka?

yeah some of the most indelible rap songs are one-offs or two-offs Naughty by Nature, "o.p.P." and "hip hop hooray" house of pain "jump" rob base and ez rock, "it takes two" the little dude that did "i wish i was a little bit taller" juvenile, back that ass up t la rock, eve, etc etc (mind you...

there always were middle class or at least suburban types involved in jungle and in UK garage (perhaps not so much in grime) No U Turn... Danny Breaks... Photek obviously... Rob Playford and Rob Haigh, the Hertfordshire massive Rob Playford is no gangsta but the partnership of him and...

without binaries, writing / thinking becomes mush too evidently

Binaries are the spice of life / culture Without them it's all just mush

How about "road" then? Is that acceptable? Or when grime MCs go on about road this and road that, are they just prey to a mystification that more enlightened types like you and Eshun have seen through? Streets talk runs through this music (and its American and JA counterparts) all the way.

gremino's right: you don't need to have heard the entire output of a genre to have an opinion on it take CrowleyHead -- he's not heard every guitar solo ever, but he knows he's got zero interest in guitar solos, and he's certain that nothing interesting or entertaining could be uttered on the...

funny thing is, the offending blog post, which is still being talked about a month later http://blissout.blogspot.com/2011/03/wise-words-few-months-ago-fact-posted.html consists 90 percent of opinions quoted verbatim from this very thread by nine or ten separate individuals so if you're...

80% is a pretty good success rate

this is true but the funny thing about dance journalism today, and online discussions of dance music too, is that it hardly ever registers the social dimension. there is almost no on-the-scene reportage, descriptions of crowd behavior, dance styles, rituals, vibes etc. discussion is almost...