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I don't think Bug In The Bassbin was out until '92. Lots of Belgian stuff I think. Just read the other day that "Pump Up The Jam" was played by them quite a bit when it just came out. They kept on playing quite a bit of that stuff - it was just about the hardest/darkest stuff available for a...

The most expensive was this: http://www.discogs.com/Vector-Lovers-Graviton-EP/release/1222327 which I paid $30.19 for (I think it was 20 quid including shipping) which I got more for collecting purposes than anything. The most I paid for a record I actually wanted was $24.53 for...

It seems different to me, there's a lot of distortion to it which I don't really see in most JA stuff, though it's not really what draws me to it. There's a lot of quality tunes on Wackies: "Movie Show", "This World", "Mystic Revelation" (sounds like a lost Perry production) and a few more that...

That African Scream Contest compilation that came out recently is pretty good.

Africa is a pretty big place. I doubt the music is very homogeneous across regions and eras. I don't know much about this stuff myself but I've been really impressed by Mahmoud Guinia. He is from Morocco and his music is not at all like Fela's. No electric guitars or horns. But it is very raw...

I put down Goldie/Playford because they really were so far beyond everyone else. Thanks for the interview link, looks very interesting. That "crow" sound in "Saint Angel" and the breakbeat there - an Apache edit? - never heard it anywhere else, with the subtle sub-bass drops. The darkest track...

Good time to check back on Dissensus. That's a good interview there. Definitive. Answers so many questions and sets a lot of things straight. It's interesting how the idea around 1993 was to strip it all back to basics to build back up. Too bad Hood stayed there (though I like his stuff). But...

Just saw K-Swift play at Artscape Saturday and missed her by a couple hours on Friday. Can't believe she is gone. Terrible loss for Baltimore. Her radio shows were the premier outlet for this music.

Any good analysis blogs? I really enjoyed the ones from forum members during the '04 and '06 tournaments.

Could also be http://www.discogs.com/release/37574 I think that was a little more well known.

Ugh...that Alan Braxe track. Just further cementing my impression of him as the creator of the most linear, boring, simplistic tracks ever. His tracks always give the feeling of a a few rectangular boxes placed one after another on a grid. As far as essential dubstep...you can just go listen to...

That hits all the right buttons.

I thought they are saying "hold on". I found out what the Brazilian instrument is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu%C3%ADca In one of the songs the singer said the word and it started playing.

You know that sound on every samba record that kinda goes like "woo" or "eee" (if it's more high pitched)? Is that an instrument or do the musicians vocalise that?

Nice. Never enough hardcore mixes. The bad sound quality is part of the charm for me. I am a little disappointed sometimes when I get the actual records and they don't sound as dirty and weedy as they do in these old mixes from 2nd generation tapes. The track at 41:00 in that 1992 mix is The...

That's because it's impossible to mix due to the completely different sound architecture of it and how it occupies all the frequencies. Though the most memorable dj moment of the year for me was this one guy playing three Field records at the same time through an effects box.

Shake's set at DEMF 2007 is posted at http://www.demf.com

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I felt like a couple years ago there was a real Jeff Mills backlash on the various forums but now I don't feel that anymore. I think he just kinda faded into relative obscurity because he no longer represents the reigning sound in techno. He wasn't very inspiring at DEMF this year. I get the...

What, no love for the Cobblestone Jazz album? Haven't heard it yet except for samples on Juno but those sound as good as can be expected given their continuing standard of quality.