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But stepping into the bubble is a political act because it involves denying that any bad stuff exists. That's a luxury that only people with a reasonable amount of privilege can afford. And by constructing a world full of pretty birdsong, social harmony etc. you are implicitly saying that any...

http://thequietus.com/articles/07603-2011british-politics-folk-music "its most popular present-day practitioners have all the political clout of a rye bread loaf purchased at great expense on Borough Market."

for fuck's sake

Just a little self-plug, big interview I did w/ Skream for The Quietus. He has opinions on fame/haters/skrillex etc. as you can probably imagine: http://thequietus.com/articles/07606-skream-interview P.S. I think christian dubstep needs a new thread of its own, too much good stuff

I knew there was a reason why I come on here

Blackdown you get all the doozys

Don't see how 'post-modern' is any less gaseous than 'authenticity' as a defining term for consumerism, maybe I just haven't read enough books. But ultimately what you're saying, that 'you'd need to know *something* about the music and culture', is prescribing what that 'something' is and in...

Look fwd to publication of Slothrop's 'LDN! A Handbook For The Discerning Dissensian'

Had a very similar argument with a friend recently about 'affectation' in singing - the whole faux-West Country thing that Mumford & Sons do came up. It's just such treacherous ground because ultimately all singing is affected (because you are in some way manipulating your vocal chords to do...

I know you're joking or half-joking but this is a really important point. Subcultures only really 'succeed' if they manage to reach critical mass and start infiltrating the mainstream (the vector of any cultural movement is outwards and upwards, you can't blame skream for wanting to reach bigger...

hehe. It's the straw man of middle class bandwagoneering

newcomers to dissensus should read this passage upon registering. Good point about 'fake consumerism', consumerism that manages to give itself a pseudo-moral dimension. Though I guess there is a qualitative difference with a culture based around charity shopping/recycling, but ultimately as it...

The difference is that twee has a hip currency which The Wheel Of Time never had. The brand of escapism which you get in naf fantasy novels is pretty easy to deride but it is indicative of the unhappiness of a whole sector of society who have a shit adolescence which almost invariably involves...

I guess this is the inherent risk in starting a thread to bash something instead of appreciate it. Maybe there are things in common between Not Not Fun and, say, this Nizlopi song: I spose nostalgia & a preoccupation with childhood (the two are linked also). But tarring a load of disparate...

I'd probably stop short of castration fantasies, but I saw the most offensively twee band tonight and thought of you Ulala. It was searingly twee...they gave out quirky gifts in between songs and at one point encouraged audience members to make paper aeroplanes and throw them around, aha, what...

Always funny/almost unfailingly a faux pas when people cross that line between heavily sampling/referencing a particular genre and attempting to replicate it from scratch using the original instruments. It's like they don't understand what's good about sampling in the first place. Are there...

Yo Gremino, one of the Hessle guys played 'It's Working' in Peckham last night. Sounded fat :)

Ben have you had the BBC execs round yet asking you to do a show? Make them beg

Yeah that's true actually. I expected to be totally crammed with instruments but most of it's just multi-tracked bass and those really nice chinky-chink drums.