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maybe not Skinnyman! slackk's right, it's just a different sorta thing though. I'm not a fan of their music but the Mudd Fam associated MCs are really good i think. Chester P is dope.

it's easier for that subject matter to be a supposed fantasy if it's an import. a fair amount of the lyrical content of grime is going to be a hard sell in the UK media at the moment. also we love doing people down in England, so as soon as anyone has a taste of any kind of success they have...

he does offer some explanation- he claims the free online distribution of music has redefined what recorded music as it strips it of "visible value", renders it as a stream of invisible data. A strange argument to make, i thought reading the interview online, in a book, so I'm imaging there's...

Wikipedia or it didn't happen ;) would you recommend the book?

Can solitary personal experiences not invoke THE MOMENT? If you're deeply attatched to your records it may be a distinct possibility

so in answer to my question- yes ;), and personally i don't disagree, though it isn't entirely out of the question that people are able to form information based opinions a little more quickly these days. perhaps it is a crude response. however, my friends in the US do very much feel otherwise...

Why is wry amusement a more admissible reaction OC? Is it supposed to be less disingenuous or somethin?

haha. oh dear. perhaps a few of his animated gifs will do the trick:

ok, carry on exchanging wikipedia entries.

And i was using the word "peace" in a standard way. anyway- cj was fucking about.... i wasn't, so i'm not sure if we're on the same page. i will say this over familiar discursive tactic that aims to define people into a strict, rigorous position in order to cite formal argumentative exceptions...

Reaching for the dictionary is something my old man used to do around the family dinner table. Constant appeals to a higher authority. It happens here a lot too. I assume you're fucking around, but i'm not sure what the joke is.

So the Thatcher Reagen years were a golden age of human progress. certainly not how it felt growing up in them. in no sense did Margaret Thatcher leave office peacefully, she was pushed out by her own party. If you mean in terms of foreign policy you seem to have forgotten the Cold War and the...

Certainly artists of the "I'm not a Nazi, i just flirt with the imagery" variety have found their most regular paying audience in Germany, and I'm sure the attraction is magnified if not in some cases created by the legal status of Nazi paraphernalia, and as such has more to with transgression...

Mickey One (Arthur Penn, 1965) Jazzy, expressionistic experimental quasi-noir starring Warren Beatty as a paranoiac comic who may or may not owe a faustian debt to shadowy mafiosi. Unfolds with dreamy, oppressive illogic, recalling latterday Lynch as much as Boorman's narrative sleight of hand...

no on both counts, i think the online bombardment of manga style imagery has queered me a little on japanese comics, or at least they aren't the first thing that tends to catch my eye, comics are so expensive and i'm always skint... that artwork looks familiar but i think it's just cos it looks...

^^^well put nomos course. there is no "official version". otherwise i suppose there wouldn't be much to talk about ;) ok fair enough, straight from the horse mouth as it were. there certainly is something in the idea that scenes are catalysed / crystallised by opposition. can't go with you...

clearly sleeping on Pecknam. good to see some UK hip hop get some club/street play anyway

Also...on the subject of new money for old rope...the current grime/ electro house crossover club tunes really remind me of the awful euro rap/dance hybrids that blighted the 90s charts...Dr. Alban etc. i mean skepta's rolex sweep is about as camp as it gets. is anyone seriously feeling this...

At the risk of being called an elitist, a hipster or a marxist i'm going to add my voice to the chorus of praise of yuichi yokoyama's "New Engineering" i was reminded of mat brinkman's Teratoid Heights (a masterpiece also lacking a mention here afaik) in terms of a new, near "silent" spatial...