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For me High Contrast totally lacks the 'atmospheric' bit.

I think if you showed Pitchfork to 99% of CD buyers they would think the exact opposite. In fact most of the time Pitchfork is criticised for assuming too much knowledge, not too little. But then people will attack Pitchfork whatever they do basically.

Anyone intrigued by this kind of retrofuturism/evil/secrecy nexus should read some of Warren Ellis' recent comics.

'Shit Disco, Silverlink and New Young Pony Club' really aren't very rave at all.

I think dubstep would have the brightest future if dubstep producers just asked people on dubstepforum.com how they thought dubstep should develop and then did the opposite.

Oh dear now that I've made such a basic grime-related error ritual suicide is probably the only option. That or switch to ILM.

Some of Ryoji Ikeda's abstract glitch stuff has dubstep-equalling levels of sub-bass.

Oh yeah because girls love Hawtin so much...

Can someone explain to me what's the deal with Neckle Camp, Boy Better Know, and Jah Mek The World? Are they all labels? Are they all run by Jammer?

The only 'genuine' freestyle I've got on CD is one on the Solesides/Quannum Projects compilation that Ninja Tune put out - that one is so bad (making up the word 'gasly' to rhyme with 'nasty') that you wonder what the ones that didn't make the cut must have been like.

My paradigm for a hip hop freestyle is e.g. Sway on the radio making up verses in response to topics that listeners have called in to suggest. Or someone at a rap battle directly responding to what the other person's said. I'm aware that e.g. a Ludacris 'freestyle' on a CD mixtape isn't going to...

I used to assume that a grime freestyle was improvised in the same way as a hip hop freestyle, but I've just found out that a grime freestyle actually consists of pre-prepared bars. Question: was I the only person left who didn't already know that?

Meanwhile Alan McGee thinks the single is dead. So people who predominantly enjoy rock music think the single is dead, while people who predominantly enjoy dance music think the album is dead - I wonder why that could be.

Surely Teardrop not Angel? (Actually I hadn't noticed until I read this thread and I'm still unconvinced.)

Just think though, if this had just come out without all the hype - putting conventional dubstep, vocal dubstep, and mandolin folk on the same album is a pretty amazing thing to do at a time when the dubstep mainstream resolutely refuses to cross over to other genres.

Nothing wrong with that IMO.

That just seems to be a list of the albums most commonly bought by non-dance-music-listeners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hall_%28boxer%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_of_harmful_sensation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anophthalmus_hitleri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_ibn_al-Mu%27tazz Now hit me with some in return.

You can only get 'child-onset' diabetes when you're a child, surely.

This is so true, a privileged education is supposed to 'open any door' but it actually only really opens the doors which say 'Earn an extraordinary amount of money by working 70 hours a week'.