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I've enjoyed the last few issues, but then I like Niblock as well as boundry-pushing jungle, grime and dubstep , techno etc. Saying that though the current issue wound me up a bit - The dub reviewer 'reviewed' dub dread which is an album put out by Ray Keith's Dread label, and is to all...

Is it A Good Thing though that legal stations should cater for the more experimental markets, with all the commercial pressures that would follow? I mean not everyone who is an inner-city Londoner likes grime. Look what happened to Kiss - a slow death from legal air date to its terrible state now.

Beware, Londoners are lazy, people will travel to Brixton for good nights but you'll really only get locals and interested South Londoners travelling to Norwood or Herne Hill...well in my experience anyway. Always exceptions though.

Two things I've found interesting about this: - perhaps I am naive, but a lot of people seem to have a lot of time on their hands to demonstrate in the streets, which probably wouldn't be the case if enough people had jobs etc - I'm quite surprised (and saddened) that some of the leaders of...

One thing I've always wondered: what is the status/role/position of producers in dancehall? Are they well known or do they operate in obscurity? Is there a big pool of talent or are there just a few major players? I know a lot about jungle/grime/dubstep, where producers are to a greater or...

Hmm I agree with the points about sustainability but the point about "black music fans' objection to selling out" along with the cited examples of artists not being supported quickly tells me the author has missed the point - maybe if the black/inner city music being signed and pushed by majors...

The thing about music is you never see the significant changes coming...

He's so copyright paranoid he insists he holds the rights on all interviews, not the interviewer.

There is a track called 'Inside Your Soul' on there which is really good. Not 'Angel' stunning but fresh nontheless.

My point was more about the hidden indercurrents that inform musical innovation - they take place away from the public eye, sometimes I get the impression people think new mutations in music burst forth ex nihilo - which is what the reaction to be-bop was, ignoring the industrial dispute which...

I share the general kind of view that dnb has run out of ideas somewhat, even if there are interesting and nice examples out there. I think there are a handful of producers pushing newer styles: Sileni - reminds me of some of the noisy, funky stuff from the 97-99 period but with a avant-noise...

I'm fairly ambivalent about dnb at the moment after having been deep into it for the last three years following Breakage, Equiniox, Paradox etc. But there are some incredible releases coming this year, especially on Mu - Breakage's 9th Hand/Drowning is a piece of music anyone interested in...

I think its a difference in approach to DJing within the different dance-related scenes as an art as well as other factors. A lot of the time DJing in the (originally) London-centric scenes is much more like one deck sound-system stuff than what Suregeon or Richie Hawtin or Juan Atkins does -...

Looking forward to it :cool:

I think that can happen in techno where DJs have often had the freedom and scope to make complex mixes from lots of different bits of source material. But traditionally in the London/sound system context (hardcore, jungle, 2-step, dubstep/grime) mixes have been short, even in drum and bass. The...

Very true. Small scene in terms of producers + ultra dubplate culture and you are going to get that...but its also what motivates people to produce, any DJ wanting to be taken seriously long term will have to make their own stuff or establish strong links with up and coming producers. Its both...

The remixes of requestline were.

I thought it was a very good show, the 15 minute sets were there to showcase a spectrum of sounds and I think they achieved that. Loefah especially killed it. After the utter joy of Saturday night's DMZ rave this was the perfect end to the weekend. Dubstep allstars 2 was very similar to the...

Suprised not to see more Goldie/Nasty Habits/Enforcers type stuff on there, though the angel picture disc is a good choice and probably the culminating moment of the whole reinforced sound. But its a subjective thing. :)

For sure.