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'London' is a good closer.

As you get better in the studio, you get good at doing the recognised tropes like drops, because you work out the little technical trick to do them. But sometimes that can interfere with your creativity. However when you are starting out you find yourself forced into doing different things than...

If you want to hear 2-step influences in recent tunes take your pick - Kode 9 beats like the Fat Larry's remix, Curious; Mala's Stuck, Bury da Bwoy, New Life Baby Paris, Left Leg Out; Coki's Haunted, every early Benga and Skream beat ever, Sream's Affekz...the list goes on. Is doesn't have to...

Colour isn't really the issue, especially with jungle...lots of white garage producers as well. Also a lot of key movers in jungle were suburban and outside London - Essex, Leicester, Ipswich etc. But there is a London-centricity in there definitely, thats how I've always thought about it.

Slightly OT - what's the verdict on the Slix mixtape? Or should I split that off to a new topic? Might go to uptown and get these two tomorrow.

Yes - thats what I was trying to say earlier on without much success. Don't work backwards from now and making assumptions because of surface similarities, pay attention to the actual genealogy of a sound. Anyway cool debate.

:p I'm sure someone has mentioned Villalobos as a likely/actual remixer in print somewhere... But we'll see. I think Qwalli was much to sedate and stately for the likes of Magda, Villalobos etc etc, except for perhaps really early in their sets. When I've been to minimal parties (Kompakt and...

You obviously listened to fuck all 2-step then. IMHO :D Anyway I pretty much disagree with everything you said!

My jaw is dropping...how can you listen to 'down on me' or 'sincere' and not hear jungle ghosting away all over them. Ever heard any Tom & Jerry? Or Nookie, or Peshay... 2-step wasn't jungle slowed down to garage tempo, it was something new, an evolution out of jungle and a synthesis of...

2-step was so jungle it hurt! There was clearly a US influence but thats why it was something new - it incorporated what was happening around it.

Mixing minimal and dubstep is quite tricky I have found. Most dubstep tunes, even the more subtle ones, 'drop' like in jungle, whereas something like sleeparchive, which is obviously very similar aesthetically to (say) Pinch just kind of is, elements might move in and out of view in the...

Me too - more so when I saw that pen and ink drawing from Sleazenation Martin put up on blackdown.

Not true. There was a big influx of - and this is important - not just producers (usually on the lower rungs of the jungle ladder) but ravers into garage after 95/96. It was only when house - which was/is effectively a static medium by the standards of UK music - got appropriated by the...

Sounding like them in retrospect doesn't really mean anything...if you pay attention to the actual flow of ideas, the club nights, the record shops, early careers of main players you can see (e.g.) that dubstep is largely an evolution out of the jungle/garage context.

Definitely get Da Wrath - thats hard to come by now. But you should get as many as possible out of the rest!

http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3020&highlight=hauntology

Dutch flowers is wicked...I love the bounce, will be a great tune for breaking the half-step monotony in sets.

Whats the latest release date on this one cru?

I think grime was (is) notable in how it challenged this. Otherwise can't really think of much else in US and European popular music that hasn't fallen into what you describe. The thing that comforts me is that we won't see 'it' coming - either new form, or new sense of purpose or direction -...

Yeah its nuts...when everything drops out in the middle, just the hi hat, then blamm!