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what i meant is something along these lines -- first, let's say that house music is the last great sonic innovation of gay black american culture -- at least if we apply bliss blogga's modernist criteria second, house music has long been what you would call the "safe" and "middle of the road"...

i had also commented again on this passage in my (very long) entry that disappeared! yeah, i think the question has to be how has house managed to persist and stay reasonably fresh (unless you agree w/ stelfox), whereas genres like d'n'b, 2-step, etc -- all these breakaway movements that were...

just to restate what i said in the entry that mysteriously disappeared -- i took issue with stelfox's assertion that house is safe -- in fact, i disagree vehemently! perhaps it's safe sonically -- b/c it doesn't seem "new" (again, how to cope w/ bliss blogga's paradigm?) but is house a safe...

errrr, the quote ascribed to tim f above is actually from a much longer entry that i had posted so why it's credited to tim f, and why my entry disappeared completely save for that tidbit, is beyond me -- except that dissensus site is seriously malfunctioning today!!!

or maybe the question is this -- What happened to the GAY black inner city as a motor of sonic and cultural invention? that is, wasn't a great deal of black hipster culture in 20th century closely tied to GAY black culture? why has all sonic innovation (errr, again subscribing to the bliss...

i have no problems with cocaine -- it's not my favorite drug -- but i can't figure out why people think it's such a bad thing probably resentment? b/c unless you're an addict, there's no great toll to be paid -- so while others go to bed early to work hard the next day, the people on coke are...

i think only now is it becoming clear what everybody's position is!!! -- hard to keep track yeah, i don't want to knock them too much -- i.e., i respect the scene -- but by same token, i think there's always been more interesting currents in "house" or "electronic dance" than the shelter sound

errr, i wrote this just before i went to sleep last night and under influence of alcohol -- kinda makes it sound like i bullied and slapped ronan around! -- "gave him what he deserved and broke his knee caps" -- i was merely being patronising, i.e., precisely the tack i'd take in real life --...

in line with your remarks, there's many varieties of cheese in the house scene -- some of the cheese i like (as w/ electroclash), and other varieties i detest (as with hard house, the trancier end of house) -- so kill me for being honest perhaps i was being petty or defensive or harsh or...

in the case of electroclash, i kinda caught it both in the midwest before i moved to new york in 2001, and then also kinda caught it in new york during subsequent years don't forget that tommy sunshine was a midwest rave scene fixture before he hit the big time so electroclash, for a young...

moreover, house music in general is anti-image and anti-pop -- and it's long since ceased to be fashionable (though it might be said that nothing is particularly fashionable these days!) so again, i believe you've mistaken the fundamental lines of disagreement on this thread

this thread is devoted to a general question, and so invites general statements except that nobody dismissed electroclash out of hand in fact, i said that electroclash was "in bad taste, in both good and bad ways" -- of course, if you're new to these parts, that kind of lingo may be lost on...

i ran into greg poole yesterday and asked him about roll deep -- he didn't make any promises, but he also didn't say no

errr, just noticed that i spelled "eclecticism" as electicism throughout the entry above thought i'd ward off any cheap points against me!

i meant "south asians," but said "se asians" -- i of course realize that se asia is thailand/vietnam/laos, but for whatever reason that's what i typed i'm not sure what my position is on this question -- let's say my position here is contradictory, incoherent, inarticulate, indefensible, etc...

i think the prancehall blog is funny and i like the photos so whomever the person is, he (she?) should keep it coming

you'll have to do better than that, mate take a position, go out on a limb, let us know who you agree with, who you disagree with, and why don't think the lines of debate were drawn on these terms (the debate, rather, was electicism vs genre-expectations -- see blissblog, see tim f's remarks...

i was merely joking around of course people should go to the knitting factory show -- b/c that has BOTH kano and roll deep however, the free party in east river ampitheater has dipset crew, heat crew, kano, mc cameo and POSSIBLY roll deep for an instant or two -- and it's FREE and it's been...

way ahead of you tate, mate! and fuck the knitting factory -- the best things in life are free! (scroll down to the miscellaneous section)

is the person who does the prancehall blog a grime artist?