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strike what i just said from the record, just listened to the dubsta mix definitely made me rethink my opinions on Shackleton, I own few skull disco releases and have alway preferred the gatekeeper and blim stuff until now. whats the deal with skull disco anyway, I can remember reading last...

once in a while I don't delete these sets when they auto download through the rinse podcast, I flick through and think 'maybe something will stand out' but no I delete the 40th funky/uk house mix of the week and ponder who listens to this shit. cynically Ive written this genre of as hyper...

in my experience of being involved with music production, 'engineered' literally refferes to how the sonics are treated, balanced and dynamically processed it has more to do with timbre and little to do with arrangement, 2d is probably one of the worst engineered tracks i've heard by skream, but...

yeah right, sounds very intriguing, given me the idea for a mix tape, as a figure I probably own alot of these records. not really familiar Kodwo will check out 'More Brilliant Than the Sun' though

thanks, i'm hitting the library today so i'll bear them in mind. Just started reading 'the bullet trick' by Louise Welsh, really liked a book of hers a few years back 'the cutting room' definitely worth checking out. I think Rankins killing of rebus is he not, or at the very least retiring...

antisocial surrealism?

why cant it work on several levels, I'm a strong proponent of the idea that music satisfys its audience on different levels, the extent of contemporary rap success through fashion, visual culture and record sales denotes it satifys a huge audience. Strangely as someone who listened to Rap...

who are the artists involved in that stuff (juke and hyphy) chicago seems to have some really diverse stuff coming out of it write now.

quite a few, really enjoy James Ellroy, Walter Mosley that kind of thing.

your so wrong about the look of movies from this era, Ive recently made a conscious effort to not watch any movies with gratuitous CGI in, as apart from making my eyeballs hurt, I find it far less authentic and convincing than some of the lush sets and special effects of films from the late 70's...

can anyone suggest anything they've read that they've read recently?

He seems to tiptoe on the peripheries of contemporary issues, without ever really dealing with them, Its like he's constantly saying to himself 'write about what you know' the whole thing reads like an upper middle class self help leaflet on why not to feel guilty.

now this is kinda dope! kind of reminds me of clipse but with something to say, aside from 'I used to shift keys' thank god somebody can still rhyme stateside. manages to rep old school values but without being to derivative.

I can't think of any civilized country who still uses it.

I'd argue public enemy where more of a hip hop 'band' in the traditional sense, in terms of most of there compositional initially came from Jamming and improvisation (according to Interviews I've read with Hank Shockley and Chuck D) there had strong concepts and Ideas which drove their work, but...

cheers for the links, interesting to see the US mpc sound seems to provide the backbone to alot of the tracks strangely rhythmic elements seems sparser than I expected definitely prefer the more up tempo dance hall inspired stuff. thanks again.

I could try and be boring and science but they'll be those who explain it better than I. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A882182 It has something to do with analogue signals allowing a huge amount of headroom because their continuous, and digital relies on binary on-of signals to encode audio...

Prompted by a news paper article, I did some not very extensive research into African Rap, spurred on by discovering the huge amount of hip hop music in the continent, it depressed me how much material I came across on You tube Etc. strongly echoed the aesthetics of Mtv bass, If i muted the...

I was arguing with a web developer friend a while back about myspace, his issue was that myspace was so ugly looking and badly designed, my point was its fairly socially democratic as a consequence, everyone has the same tools to play with, a ropey looking web page with limited editing features...

I believe this to be a criminally underrated movie. For me it has it all, from coke sniffing 80's yuppies, officious German terrorists, that mongolian looking bloke who always seems to pop up in movies as a generic henchman hanging of the back of a lorry waving a machine gun. Alan rickmans...