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i'm a little late to chime in on all this but here goes... just heard skull 006 and it is FANTASTIC, not just one of the best dubstep records i've heard in ages, but best singles hands down, certainly this month. i'm not at all surprised by that turntable lab thing. they strike me a lot like...

(whoops, missed reading page two there) re: swing, thomas melchior has often had a really swingy, *almost* two-steppy basis to his music, but he's also far more grounded in house, i'd say, than techno, and taking inspiration from a lot of the same records that gave rise to uk garage initially.

it's funny, i've wanted to remix burial myself (or rather, have a go at remixing him...) -- but i think you'd be very likely to lose a lot of what makes him special, eg the off-kilter rhythms that come from unquantised cut & pasted bits. then again, that's not so different from what dettinger...

fair enough to those who are taking issue with my claim that villalobos' mix has more gravitas to it -- i actually don't think that's probably right, and i was misguided (swept up in the villa-love?) when i included that. so thanks for setting me straight, blackdown et al!

I don't mind the critique of the Pinochet references; I was trying to connect various threads and I realize that it may not have worked. That's a blog for you. (But I also don't think it's a stretch to inquire into Villalobos' bio and backstory when he's working with such loaded lyrical material...