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Anybody spotted this new Funkineven release on Eglo? It's pure throwback analogue acid...Can't decide if I like it or not..

it's kind of interesting if you see it as dubstep fulfilling it's 'hardcore-ifying' tendency to speed up. Don't know if there was really a transitional phase between the two though or whether it was a calculated ruse so that tearout producers get to play all their old DnB in sets. One of my...

what Leo said, you guys need to stop buying into the narrative of decline so easily. In Greek mythology, each successive generation of mythical characters was described as being measurably weaker than the last. They went from being able to lift rocks the size of houses to being...well..human...

tires me that the level of technical accomplishment on display in a piece of music can still be considered synonymous with its quality. But obviously you were just joking

there's a 120bpm bit and an 80/160bpm one on the album. 'Boogie Boi' and 'Only 4 U' I think they're called. tbh they're my favourite bits on it, but I agree, it def feels like an album for the sake of having all those tracks on wax for his sets, rather than a unified, structured artwork. That...

ah right...maybe something about androgyny as well, given how these are both scenes with a fairly ambiguous feminine/masculine balance...it's hard to identify gender once voices are pitched down. Whereas almost 'super-female' sounding pitched up vocals in a male-dominated scene (I'm thinking of...

yeah that's sicko cell. someone should say something intelligent about the fact that in the 90s everybody spent all of their time pitching voices up and now we're obsessed with pitching them down. it's obviously all the ketamine we've been doing.

It's a bit of a ner ni ner to people who've already decided what kind of music he makes and filed him in the 'ignore' drawer, isn't it

really really like the sound of that album, think it's gonna be one of the strongest yet.

yeah I mean there's definitely a lot to like about the tune...but I think the way people have responded to it, by and large, isn't in a manner which suggests they're appreciating its restrained nature or structural subtleties. Obviously this is a very subjective view tho

Sounds to me like you might possibly be bringing too much of your own tastes to the table - what constitutes unnecessary extra percussion, or non-essential vocal samples - and using them to ascribe motives to the producers that may or may not be correct. But then again, bad stuff in this scene...

Nice work on the Rashad & Earl rmx man, always nice to see people actually engaging with that whole scene rather than treating it as an anthropological case study

tbf I think his real surname is Smith so his only other option would have been to become 'James Bowie' or some shit

This. Much more succinct than I managed... And surely the idea that Jamie XX... ...well isn't that all of us before we start making the stuff? He just happens to have had a successful prior career in a slightly different area of music. As Daddek says I don't think he's particularly milked...

On the contrary I'd say there are identical issues here: the hype train running away with itself, ascribing 'heavyweight' status to artists who aren't particularly outspoken and probably never intended for that to happen. Then any critics who may have been indifferent or mildly unimpressed by...

standard behaviour for RA though right, didn't they review that Skrillex EP just so they could have a good old SCOFF In fact I think that was Andrew Ryce writing as well.

I've never got this. Generally these 'cutting edge' UK people tend to get some good designers on board but to my mind this is freakin ugly. I think Fact included it in a 'worst sleeves' feature as well.

"This is [label name] calling on to raise the arms and cross them to form an X overhead. Dare to connect hungry lips on the gently snipped chakra of ever-floating tunes, and slurp the guts of it. Magic vibrations called out for a place, where resonation is not muted by the noisy highway of the...

This is great too...really like the mixing style, reminds me of ghettotech DJs, bish bash bosh and on to the next one

This stuff is really cool, especially Pantha. And loads to download and enjoy...cheers for the heads up!