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http://gu.com/p/495tp This article is about how Jamacians like Michael Bolton and Shania Twain mixed in with their Chronixx and Popcaan, and why it is that they don't feel these things are "guilty pleasures"; indeed, its suggested that there is no such THING as a "guilty pleasure" for a...

I happened across the video for Kano's new song today on YouTube and it provoked me into briefly skimming his catalogue. This, in turn, has provoked me into starting this thread, in which poor ignorants such as myself will ask the forum to give them a run down of the best...

Any era. Any genre. Any reason. Please explain the reason. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nq3R-h8qJnE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Rakim might well be miming here but it's still a pleasure to see the crowd going nuts to that break, innit...

Dissensi, I need your expertise. I'm doing a short list for work tomorrow with the theme of UK garage with horror samples/names etc. Ideally pre grime. I've got: KMA - Cape Fear El-B - Buck N Bury Some tune called 'Michaels Theme' which samples Halloween Other possibilities include "R.I.P...

Thought I'd kick-start this thread (in September!) with a list of things I've been feeling this year, or at least things that I've blogged about. King Louie - God King Los - Woke Up Like This Young Thug - Eww Chinx Drugz - Knew That Fat Trel feat. Wale - In My Bag Young Money feat Lil...

The "Bop" is a dance which people from Chicago have been doing since Be-Bop in the 1950's, but nowadays kids are doing it to crazy sped-up trap music with autotuned vocals and thoroughly Disney/Nintendo-esque melodies. They also do it to normal rap music as you can see here. This guy's called...

Hiiiii I'm supposed to be a writer/critic, and yet my grammar no good. Wondering if anybody here knows of good grammar guides I could buy to help me tell my arse from a colon. I find this stuff incredibly dry but I feel like my writing could be improved a lot if I knew how to use punctuation...

Who are the DJs around nowadays who are capable of blowing your mind or lifting your spirits? I dunno if its just cos I'm as jaded as fuck but I haven't seen that many in recent years who have had that effect. I'd also like to know who are the best DJs you've ever seen live and maybe even get...

This might be the most boring thread ever created on dissensus but... I just got a samsung s4 contract with carphone warehouse, they sold me their insurance plan (which I don't have to pay for two weeks and can cancel before then). It's 14 quid a month, which is obviously too much. Just...

He done it for my blog. DIRTNAP 2 PRESENTS: THE BRACKLES AFROBEATS MIX!!! Brackles has the longest arms of any DJ you’ve ever seen. He can tap an incompetent sound engineer on the shoulder from a distance of thirty yards to get the EQ correct. He doesn’t have to go to the bar to retrieve a...

In the last year I've become obsessed with a semi-obscure unreleased song by SWV called ''Mystery''. Even though you can tell that it hasn't been properly mixed down and to a lot of people it might sound like a pretty MOR or even saccharine love song, I absolutely love the harmonies and...

Strikes me as odd that there isn't a thread about Kanye already on here (perhaps there is and my search function ain't shit). 'Yeezus' is topping all of the end of year polls for music critics, and not a day goes by that I don't see something about Kanye beating up paparazzi, or chucking...

I am guilty of employing my fair share of cliches in music reviews so this isn't no muthafuckin' witch-hunt but I'm curious as to which analogies/descriptions/general phrases you think pop up far too often in music journalism? This should be (notionally) interesting as people on dissensus are...

Some of my favourite rap tunes of this year have been Future-aping auto-tune tunes like the following: Rich Homie Quan - Type Of Way (2013) Lil Durk - Dis Ain't What U Want (2013) And obviously the king himself keeps doing it best Future - Honest (2013) Future - Keep On Shinin'...

First thing's first - DISSENSUS4LIFE is tattooed above my belly button, please don't get it twisted. Dissensus is my home base nowadays and its a good place for bringing people with knowledge of various genres together - I'm just wondering where people who are dedicated to one particular...

Watched a film called ''Tokyo Gore Police'' last night. Completely batshit mental, and heavily inspired by American gore-fests like ''Robocop'' and presumably the body horror of yer Cronenbergs et al. But there was something particularly Japanese about its craziness - reminding me of the...

Anyone been reading this? They're doing one for the 90's soon, too. It's a good source for tracks I've never heard, although a fair few of them make me go ''hmfff?!'' like a dog would if you dangled a steak on a string from a window in front of its nose and kept yanking it up everytime the poor...

I couldn't open the ''R&B recommendations thread for some reason so... I just wanted to post this tune that Luka showed me the other day, cos I love it. Have been playing it all day. Wouldn't mind being put on to some more R&B too as it goes.

This is the latest edition of the ''Corpsey Attempts To Use Dissensus To Sort His Life Out'' series. What do you lot get up to in your spare time? I spend the vast majority of mine listening to music, browsing (that's a gentle term for strenuously lethargic activity) the internet, scratching...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this but move it if its not. As a highy disorganised and indecisive person, I'm currently feeling completely confused about what I should do with my life. I did an MA a year ago and I enjoyed the work a lot. My life surrounding the degree unfortunately...