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The ironic thing about London is its this huge cosmopolitan magnet for immigration and yet its inhabitants tend to be basically provincially minded I can see why btw - since moving here only a few years ago I've basically forgotten the rest of the country exists

cities like Liverpool Manchester Birmingham Bristol all have west indian communities so it's interesting that London is hardcore continuum central - is this just because London is by its very nature a gravitational point for creativity? that it has a higher population? or that any narrative of...

Northern Soul?

i think he means Londoners in general

hardcore continuum = british (usually londoners) take foreign (often american) genres and twist them, either in order to give it a british stamp or just because they're british and so have different influences than the foreigners atm it seems the dominant influences on the communities that have...

i should have explained, 'the beach' was playing in a cafe on phi phi one time i was in there eating noodles

This song actually makes me nostalgic for reals because I was the cliched western 'backpacker' in thailand for a month or so when I was 19 and the world was all before me

Favourite genre? For quiet listening: Classical For loud listening: Hip-Hop For dancing: UK/US Garage Most potently nostalgic music for you? I think I brought up this concept of 'nostalgia for naivety' in a post about the Neptunes. The Neptunes make me feel it, as do certain schmaltzy...

taking an unscheduled break from literature atm as I managed to pick up and get enthralled by michael lewis's 'the undoing project' has me thinking about the effect of cognitive biases on musical taste, e.g...

coke doesn't make music better but i must have listened to a lot of it due to it being fantastic for prolonging drinking sessions on the creative side of things, coke has probably played a big behind the scenes role in determining the decline of various musical artists and genres how many DJs...

If you've seen Apocalypse Now you'll have a good idea - basically, Kurtz can't live up to the pre-match hype. Quite a fascinating book, though, full of images that haunted me afterwards. Very hard read, though, took me longer to read than books twice as long. 'The Secret Agent' by Conrad is...

Do they use low res jpegs in order to make it harder for the deep state to keep tabs on them?

one thing that makes paradise lost so strange and interesting is that milton is such an intensely thoughtful and naturally rebellious poet but he's writing as if scripture is the truth and he can't deviate from it... so he ties himself in knots explaining this inexplicable story... that tension...

feel free to close the thread i was being lazy instead of actually paying attention to the news thanks for all your responses though

who am i in this west coast/east coast analogy, you ask? i'm elton john on the hook of 'ghetto gospel'

i'd expect tories to be antisemitic tbh and communism was of course linked with judaism in the eyes of the the nazis (probably to at least some degree insanely)

Can someone explain the crossover here? Is it just an accusation based on opposition to Isreal? Or is there some sort of weird left-wing/jew-hating interface?

barty is like the 2pac of dissensus and luka is suge knight he started out as a sensitive, wistful, and poetic young man but then he got gassed up by the mafioso don and is now found screaming THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG LIFE BABY as he leans out of the window of the mercedes benz gobbing at paparazzi...

I like this Golden Boot tune I hit shots from far like Roberto Carlos All I do is organise orders, come like I work in Argos Also Just done a whole night shift and all now they're still calling T-house looking all scary, have you ever watched Conjuring? I appreciate how he rhymes...

it was hip hop connection wot led me astray