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Cobretti, all my old articles are lost in the mists of the internet unfortunately - the Outkast one I'm glad about though as it wasn't very good if I recall. Crofton, also check out: Sticky ft. Marvin Brown - Jack It Up Any Maxwell D vocals e.g. "Don't Be Alarmed" over Scotty D's "Liberty" Leo...

Love "Blu Magic". I've posted up some thoughts on Ill Blu (together with lots of youtube vids) here: http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2009/12/ill-blu-ill-blu-are-without-doubt-years.html

I liked that piece sjc. A good cross-section of people to interview too. Rankin worrying about MCs jumping on funky is self-interested but i'm sympathetic anyway: MCs like him occupy a curious precarious position in that they're most likely to prosper in an environment where the MC is...

He's difficult to link to - his myspace is useless and he seems only to have released "Liberty/The Sound" so far. I'll try to post a link to Maxwell D on "Liberty". "The Sound" is on Marcus Nasty's Rinse 10. He has about 4 other tracks incl. "Dream" and some others whose names I don't know on...

Andy, my favourite skank tunes are: 1) Dotstar - Stick Up (amazing video clip for this!) 2) the skank version of Funkystepz - Funky Sound, can't remember it's name but you can find it on youtube 3) African Air Horn Dance 4) 312 - Bring It Back (Ill Blu Remix) is a skank tune really Re Maxwell...

Andy, Fr3e's follow-up "I Got My Beads On" is excellent too. Check youtube.

Re Yr etcs, my point was that there is a Rule of Exceptions - obviously none of those artists are plural, they're all so achingly singular...

Sure, but you don't think the tendency is particularly strong within the kind of journalism that fact exemplifies? It's a very UK thing as well I suspect. Compare/contrast with the way in which european house and techno producers are written about by and large. One of the reasons so many...

Actually Andy I agree with you to a large extent, hence using the phrase "liminal" - as in, on the border or threshold - rather than, I dunno, auteurist. e.g. Night Slugs = liminal but not auteurist. I don't think you could say it's a "scene" though - you could get from each of the artists in...

I think if anything you're underselling the extent to which fact is very good at consistently pushing obscure web only dj mixes, digging up limited release obscurities, chronicling "road to damascus" moments in club sets (though, ha, i sort of think of this as a post-Blackdown tendency! Not the...

Like who? More cos I’m curious. Re: the drawing links thing, I personally think now more than ever, the boundaries between all forms of dance music are totally blurred, and there are a lot of amazing producers and djs who are defined by the way they draw in all sorts of influences from all over...

I don't think it reads as tongue in cheek at all. This is six pages of clearly sincere hyperbole. Nothing wrong with that per se. I think there's a bit of a tendency with FACT to get a bit "everything's connected OMG do you see!! This DJ we like this week is like a fractal vector of cold wave...

Yeah DJ Mystery - "Speechless". The original is really nice, but I also love the recent chilly DJ Naughty remix.

I will not discuss the issue on here again (at least until the next such article appears I guess). If anyone wants to get in any final shots here's your chance!

Not that I think there's much value in continually repairing misreadings of what I'm saying, but: I was talking about the way in which she's contextualised, not her own copy. Dismissing 90% of funky as crap doesn't bother me assuming she's talking about subpar skank tracks; it's the way in which...

Benjy, you are right, I'll use that from now on.

To be clear on a couple of points: 1) I'm not saying that funky is divided between deepness and cheesiness (or darkness and pop, or etc.). I'm saying that funky dissolves any such divide but the invocation of "funkstep" - or, leaving the strict term to one side, the notion of some kind of...

"serious eyes-down music for serious eyes-down people" Although this has been true of "funkstep" so far, ultimately boomkat-ization is slightly more subtle than this. Not all music that appeals to a dubstep-like audience has to be "serious eyes-down", but I think that boomkat-isation does...

I felt this massive upsurge of affection for Rankin' about 12 months ago when he added "a credit crunch couldn't touch our stock" to his "make my boy hard like rock" rhyme. Also love his "reputation for dedication" rhyme.

Wow, that's pretty amazing! How obviously are Ill Blu producers of the year: - Time To Get Nasty - Pull It, Wheel It (Remix) - Blu Magic - Dragon Pop - Rock The Boat (Remix) - Heartbreaker (Remix) - Say Yes - Whatever the fuck this monster of a tune is!