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I got the impression they worked together i.e. developed the sound together. I imagine it must be well annoying for him if that is the case and everyone just assumes he's a biter. Either way that Eminem remix is terrible.

This ties into my hatred and dependence on tracklists when choosing whether or not to listen to a mix. They are like plot spoilers in a way, they take away a big part of the enjoyment you get from hearing a DJ live. Having said that they are almost always the one thing that will make me listen...

Cheers for the link to this, it was a really well put together piece. I didnt realise the scale of the reaction to Reagan's death, it'll be interesting to see what sort of reaction we get in the UK when Thatcher goes. The Lenin's Tomb Obit had too strong a thread of intellectual arrogance...

Ed Sheeran seems to channel a lot of this stuff, he's like the distilled embodiment of a decade of saccharinely folksy phone adverts. Stuff like this is meant to be hilarious apparently:

This is worth a listen for anyone interested in Gilles Peterson's career: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/2011/10/gilles-peterson-worldwide-vol-5-no-1-ross-allen-x-gilles-p-interview/ He set up a pirate station in his shed in his back garden, the guys a legend!

Its sad to see Gilles Peterson go although I did tend to download the show from that CoreThomas site so maybe I'm partly responsible (I always figured by loading up iPlayer and hitting 'listen again' first it registered as a hit though?). The BBC must think that Gilles Peterson's listeners...

Bass music is bad but Post-dubstep is worse...imagine if Reggae had been called 'Post-Ska'. A lot of the better Genre names reference places or dances associated with the music's emergence, post-dubstep should be called 'Bedroomlaptopburialforum & Bass'

I imagine it could be annoying for producers the way an image can become synonymous with your music because of the masturbatory tastes of some random guy uploading rips to youtube. Some of the sources you use to underpin your argument seem like a massive stretch though. Its hard to argue the...

Totally agree with this. Also I think the problem with constructing a definitive canon of LPs is it sort of desensitizes the music and removes all emotional context. To me it doesnt really represent the actual process of listening to and appreciating music, its kind of like saying 'this is what...

There's a program called ISoul for mac which is a bit buggy but does the job.

The 'black origin' concept was always a jarring one. Like what point in the history of black music am I supposed to pinpoint as the origin of 'NDubz FEAT. Mr Hudson – Playing with Fire'?

The sound of that album is really down to the playing of the Dap Kings and the engineering of Gabriel Roth. Salaam Remi produced half the album and no one obsesses over his importance in relation to it. If you take away Amy and just leave Ronson then you get an album like Version.

I've often wondered this as well. She seemed really studied in the late 50s/early 60s great jazz singers and the common themes with people like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Dinah Washington were drug problems and/or deeply troubled lives outside of music. Obviously this does not negate the...

Im a bit lost. Are people worried/frustrated because a genre that isn't a genre is not producing music that is as original as music they cant conceive of which doesnt exist but maybe should?