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"when i heard a free loco dice cd with mixmag sometime ago (first time id heard of him), my reaction was to call it "cheesy minimal". " That's a good mix that one! It took me a while to realise as I was suspicious of the way Loco Dice suddenly appeared with Mixmag's benediction. But the way...

Never mind Villalobos albums vs Villalobos DJ sets, the real blow against Woebot's argument is Villalobos PHOTOGRAPHS. A couple of points: 1) I don't see funky house and minimal as being necessarily that distinct, let alone oppositional, conceptually or sonically. Note that the former's...

Unai's album is a lot like the two last Luomo albums, with a dash of erm Junior Boys maybe? His keyboards reminds me a bit of Rockwilder sometimes, oddly. The album is pretty good. "Exit Wounds" is brilliant yeah. I also love "Steps To Heaven Are Steps To Me" - he's best when the melodrama is...

Well actually in the bit of me you quote I'm referring to <i>The Present Lover</i>. For me, Luomo made <i>two</i> entirely different but utterly amazing albums, so there was no certainty that the next Luomo album would be a disappointment. I actually like the Delay remix of Rhythm & Sound more...

Haters were saying <i>The Present Lover</i> was coffee-table-esque and emoting-not-emotionally-affecting. I find the songs on <i>Paper Tiger</i> sound great but there's little of the emotional tug of <i>The Present Lover</i>, even though Delay hasn't messed with his sonic signature much at all...

The album is not very good, sadly. It's kind of what the cloth-eared haters erroneously accused <i>The Present Lover</i> of being.

Also, yeah, Bias is considered a godfather of 2-step for his 2-step tracks from 99/00 etc. alongside peeps like Steve Gurley, El-B and Dem 2... <i>not</i> his subsequent breakbeat investigations.

So any 2-step track which chops up the beat is a breakstep track?!?! For me "breakstep" means breakbeaty tracks played in the garage scene and at garage tempos that don't really have that post-Timbaland 2-step swing to them. They can still be syncopated and funky (think that little drum kit...

If you're not really into 2-step, it's not surprising that you think Zed Bias was more successful as a breakstepper than as a 2-stepper - but this is only from the skewed perspective of someone who is willing to dismiss MJ Cole and Wookie entirely for making "cafe" 2-step (whatever that means)...

Five junglist 2-step toons: Zed Bias - Neighbourhood Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub) London Dodgers - Down Down Biznizz Vincent J Alvis - Body Killin' James Lavonz - Mash Up Da Venue That's just the tip of the iceberg, how is this even an issue...

The funny thing about the remix of that Bodyrox tune (and I said this on Pitchfork so if you've read it there forgive me for repeating myself) is that it's cheesiness is only a matter of timing. It sounds very obvious in 2006, but in 2004 or even 2005 it wouldn't have sounded nearly so...

Yes Jona has some of the best <i>sounds</i> of anyone, I love it when he goes a bit New Horizons-ish (like the glistening Police guitar on "Full Pool" or the brilliantly spongey "Yellowstone").

Swears you are so right about fake instruments. It's already happening with string pads.

I wouldn't go that far, but I do think that Kode9 is maybe pushing his luck in setting out a theory of bass on the one hand and making bass-heavy dubstep on the other, and then asking people not to judge the latter against the former. And I say that as someone who likes Kode9's stuff a lot -...

Don't sleep on "True To Myself" from <i>The Au'Harem...</i>. Gutterbreakz, when Villalobos plays live he often mixes in a lot more upbeat and anthemic stuff alongside the minimal epics. Actually I find he has excellent taste in straight-up house, sometimes parts of his mixes bore me with their...

Swears is right: I don't think electroclash had the coherent scene-image it's being attributed here: most of the time when I went to a club or a bar playing electroclash it was typical slightly scuffy student types who were there - never any leather or make-up or anything, and certainly no...

can someone post pictures of Ricardo Villalobos in action here, please?

Actually i disagree with point number 1: minimal <i>definitely</i> has a set of "cultural signifiers built around the "scene"": - artists moving to Berlin and doing lots of drugs at sunny after-after-after-after-parties at about 3pm on a Sunday afternoon - long hair, short beards optional...

"For Dan" is on Mayer's new <i>Immer 2</i> mix. The section which goes "For Dan" --> SCSI-9's "Moskaya" --> Jesse Somfay's "Lying In a Bed of Mist" is quite amazing.

I love "Love Stoned", but I think it's kind of retrospectively made brilliant by the interlude. Not sure if I would adore it as much without that.