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I agree with others in this thread that pleasure can be transcendent or a political act of reclaiming the self, where taking or losing control is a means of opting out of the banality of mass media or norms of behaviour, or that simply having the experience of feeling something entirely good...

Vague definition of the genre... http://ask.dubroom.org/faqstyleclassifications.htm Not a huge reggae monster but I identify particular basslines as being rub a dub. Sometimes jungle tracks borrowed Rub A Dub sub patterns, which is where I first came into contact with the term. I've always...

I'd love to be shocked by a new Autechre album. They're pioneers. I find it interesting how they've become sonically flatter over time... the more processed and grainy, the narrower the sound. Still spatial and whizz bang, but thinner and thinner.

Where are Autechre now? They really painted themselves into a corner... not that I've kept up with the 'genre', but the only thing I've heard that really extends IDMs technical vocabulary past their sound design was the The Four Quarters, and that was as much because it tempered their dense...

For some reason this seems the saddest of the bunch. I picture a room of brains sitting on the floor like so much soggy grey porridge, pretending they can have a party without drugs, sex, or bodies.

I could see intricacy and dense melody coming back as new trance and minimal wear out a bit more... but the eclecticism and pan-genre sounds around at the mo don't form the same kind of rigid pleasure-hegemony that IDM initially reacted against. Or do they? Perhaps eclecticism will become...

Depends on your opinion of internet-bound music obsessive shut-ins and those who seek their advice.

midnight juggernauts - dystopia sally shapiro - disco romance chab - aeiou chromatics - night drive fischerspooner ladytron

the jungle-dnb cycle was too depressing to contemplate living through again and why i stopped listening to dubstep a couple of years back. the uk 'nuum genres feel really weird to me now. hardcore, jungle, garage, dubstep... these odd little interconnected epochs that are ultimately isolated...

i was pleasantly surprised by it. i had pan-pot pegged as being good and predictable but there was some inventive stuff on the album. very clever and refined, which is what bores me about minimal in general, i guess...

Fukkk Offf - I'm A Freak Smoking hot electro-house zipper-bass work-out. Roman Salzger - Sunday Night Shuffle I'm a bit awed by the ultimate pleasure-synths in this insane peak-time cum track. Marc Romboy & Blake Baxter - Undergroung Thang Driving, chugging, rushy analog riff-texture anthem...

Was that when he said "techno musicians are primitives"? Pretty cool...

all that overly organic stuff (the zaha hadid car above) reminds me of 50s/60s kitsch... a throwback from a future past that never arrived.

curves vs lines is one of those cyclical things... art nouveau, futurism, cubism, modernism, international style, hippy, 80s money, 90s organic. the yin/yang tension between nature and society given form. fave car design the past while has come from RR, nice marriage of grotesque/beauty...

its a commodore 64 arp sound. given he already was "influenced" by the demo scene i'll be amazed if it had anything to do with dubstep.

Yeah... the stuff I think that stands up the best now is often the most technically simple tracks that were done really well. Something like Ware Mouse, theres not a lot too it, but they work the groove and its just really great, effective, economical use of samples. Hardly anyone in dnb would...

dnb became the hyper masculine, garage the skipping feminine, dubstep the torpid androgyne? "That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death..."

Beatchopping used to be a lot less precise I think... cut into chunks rather than single hits that are then quantized to death. In some old jungle tracks you can hear it where they play a sample repeatedly like a fill... say a loop that goes tikka-tikka-tikka, where the tikka is a single sample...

its the little things that get me in the snoop vid; the way he nails the shoulder wiggle dance... the thumb-lick when he's on the bed wearing a turban.

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