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What happened to just ripping off samples and not giving a toss where they come from...like everyone was doing in hardcore and jungle? I thought that was the point.

I know I know...that comment was a bit of a deliberate provocation :o

I read into that an implication that licensing is difficult for grime... Why is that? Its not like they are making any money off 1000 white labels is it. Looks a decent enough tracklist...if a bit unadventurous maybe.

It goes..."Burnin marajuana pon the corner" Its a big tune becasue it smashes up raves, the bassline is weighty and musical, and it just 'drops' - hence the impact. That and a thousand indecipherable things that make one tune a smasher and another medicore. The first night Mala played the dub...

I disagree - well what I mean is, so what. When you think about the set as a whole - pace, development, the vibe generally - its not necessarily the best approach to do rapid fire mixing. Its nice to hear tune breathe and thats what Yunx does. His mixing is very precise and it has an impact that...

An example of someone going the other way - Woebot did that piece about Dave Nodz and his Sub Base artwork. He ended up making music as Noise of Art (though not a lot of it).

Goldie, most definitely. A very interesting graff artist from what I work I've seen and he was doing that years before he even started working with reinforced etc. He has spoken about how he approaches music making like he approached his art, 'painting with sound' or something along those...

They are club-functional...and work in that context. There's one track of his on allstars 4 ('Greazy') where the bassline dominates the track and has melodic content too...and I think its one of his best.

You can hear both the tunes I'm on about - the Olive bootleg and the really string led detroit tune - in the Kode 9 show with D1 as special guest (10-11-05). The string-y one is at 40 mins. The Olive boot is at about 1hr 20 Should be on barefiles. Thing I like about D1 is how his...

I like it to begin with, but the rhythmic meat of the tune sounds a bit like Hybrid or similar late-90s middle of the road, unambitious dance. D1 has done an out and out Detroit strings tune which I think is overall better than this though. Name escapes me at the moment. You could see this one...

Equinox is hands down the best jungle/drum and bass DJ you would ever hear. His selection and attitude is great.

There was a Hannett retrospective cd issued recently I think. I see what you are getting at. I never really liked Joy Division except where they got uptempo and so unfunky they were funky, - on Transmission and She's Lost Control - and that has got a lot to do with the Hannett (especially the...

Proper...looking forward to seeing the sqwad in the flesh...

Cool

El-B at forward this Friday.

Do you write for the observer? Blue Lines is a hideously overrated album, a one-way ticket to yawnsville. Give me 'drugged up young pirates' anyday of the week, thats how we got "Pulse X", "What", "I Luv U", "Anna" etc etc. Anyway not sure I follow your point. Burial has an understanding of...

Who gives a fuck about 'inovative drum programming' - you sound like a fucking muso. Burial sets a tone, vibe, tells stories like no other, and thats why he's the shit.

Dizzee Rascal - 'Win' Anybody got any info on the Dizzee track 'Win' (Flowdan and Breeze also vocal it)? Was this ever released? Remembered this because the Flowdan bars crop up on the tune he's done with The Bug. Incidently the Flowdan/Bug tune is mental, one of the best grime things I've...

I'm not sure he sampled Massive Attack, maybe just the same break, and gave it that 'heartbeat' treatment. I like Prayer a lot.

Sweet vocal and bleep and bassline magic. Chord progression in the chorus definitely reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it...