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wow. a scene called "Scene." now i've seen everything. (except, sadly, that i haven't.) there's something truly fascinating about brokencyde -- the mixture of crunk, screamo, metalcore and bits of rave is really rather inevitable, when you think about it. i'm pretty sure their lyrics are also...

Where has Skream mentioned the "mongrel music" tag? It's perhaps a bit general to catch on with respect to this current flowering (what nascent genre ISN'T a mongrel music, after all?) but it does have a nice ring to it... As I (think I've) said elsewhere, I really like the way that many of the...

This is part of what I love about Hyperdub. I wasn't personally that thrilled about the Ikonika, and I love the Quarta 330 to death. And yet I could easily imagine someone with musical tastes very similar to mine feeling the exact opposite. Maybe I'm thinking far too subjectively, but there's...

unfortunately i'm not going to be able to take part in the panel, as my travel plans changed. it looks like a great one, though. good luck with your efforts and keep us posted...

You might want to get in touch with Alain Mongeau from MUTEK (Montreal), Mat Schulz from Unsound (Krakow) or the guys from Club Transmediale (Berlin), as the last several years they've been working on a lot of cooperative initiatives designed to help experimental-music festivals....

Damn, this DJ Elmoe stuff is great. Really weird and buoyant. Those pitched-down claps create a wonderful sense of drag against all the hyperspeed toms. And where those stuttery vocals used to really bug me, they're so intense here that you can't help but submit. This shit is truly out there...

Here's a thought exercise: can all the writers on here actively refrain from using "wonky," from using any tag whatsoever, and simply describe the music on its own terms? (Of course, I've already failed, mentioning the term in passing in a Wire review I'm doing right now; the problem, of...

It'd be nice if there were a better word for this stuff, but I've come to believe that once a term's in use (the dreaded "mnml") there's little you can do to halt the juggernaut... Anyway, I'm just getting up to speed on this stuff, but wow. "This stuff" mainly means a few Zomby and Rustie...

anyone go to that shed party? i, being lame, stayed in. and am now rather kicking myself. and yeah, for whomever asked, i just moved here -- my girlfriend and i got a nice little place on maybachufer and pannierstr., just a few blocks from hardwax, which is awesome/dangerous...

In my VERY limited experience of Berlin, Friedrichshain feels a bit like New York's Lower East Side of the '00s, lots of student bars, etc. There's definitely a longstanding leftist population there, collectives, etc. And the Sunday (?) flea market is cool. But I don't think I'd want to live...

But if you have an idea for a track and then spend four days on the snare, you will forget the inspration and vibe you had when the idea came. This is why its worth learning technical stuff like how program synths, machines, how to play instruments etc. because then you can bash it down fast...

Awesome responses. Petergunn, thanks for all those tips. I'm glad that you guys seem more in line with my own tastes (and semi-arbitrary distinctions of hardore-icity) than the commenters over at Chunklet. A few notes: SSD- Get it Away - (a HUGE influence on the modern metal/mosh sound that...

sorry zhao, the "i think not" and "hardly" sounded snippy to me, but i was probably feeling sensitive last night after my neighbor reamed me out for DJing admittedly rather loud last night.

jesus, zhao, calm down. i'm open to you disagreeing. to me, yeah, it sounded quite different, structurally (if not sonically) from almost all the earlier Ø work, and certainly from pan sonic. but hey, it's also not like i've heard plenty of those releases in quite a while, so i might be off...

Phinnweb says it's pronounced "Ohm".... news to me. :) Also, I find Oleva to be Vainio's greatest departure so far, so even if you own a huge chunk of this stuff, this one's definitely worth getting....

damn, alfons, that flyer is beautiful!!!!

Not really "minimal," at least not in the nu-school sensibility, but whatever happened to Norken? I loved his <I>Southern Soul</i> album, and right now am listening to a really lovely Delsin 12" of his I'd forgotten about. Is he still making housey stuff?

also check out dick el demasiado, a dutch guy who's been living in buenos aires for years, turning out some bizarro shit. http://www.canalcumex.com/php/demasiado/index.php http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=97670964

<I>So what does anyone know about what they call 'Minimal Electro' ie, what have cats officially termed it as, and who and where and so on</i> I haven't seen this term used anywhere (and am relieved for that). I can't imagine that it really means anything, given how far the term "electro" has...

I think one of the problems with pinning down "minimal" (note how it lost the "-ism" about the time it lost any sort of specificity; "minimal" is now, for many people, a noun) is a divergence in strategies. On the one hand you have the "micro" tendency, the move towards small, itty-bitty sounds...