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i'm going to go slightly off topic here -- and not to sound like i'm stuck in the 1990s -- but this passage reminds me of how taken aback i am by djs who know and understand how certain records that sound deadly dull or silly or third-rate in the light of day can be utterly wondrous and...

oh and one last thing . . . . in my book, it's gotta have soul power (which is why, contra tim f, i'm very skeptical of gabba -- though in all honesty i haven't experienced much gabba, and do rather like some of the horrorist stuff) (and the stooges, say what you will, had serious soul...

and also this passage -- and so isn't this rockism -- i.e., the rockist looks for and values music that has this property -- the anti-quotidian, rattle you down to your very bones dimension in the first instance, this is the rolling stones, the stooges, jungle tekno, etc = raw power and...

i have nothing to contribute to this debate at the moment however, i want to quote comments that i think on-target and worthy of discussion first, soundslike1981 on "authenticity" what do opponents of "authenticity" take the term to mean? and given that meaning, why are they opposed to it...

by the logic of this argument, buying most any product involves the consumer in a hideous network of social oppression and degradation of the environment eat chicken? eat beef? wear nikes? wear a shirt? conversely, what if you went out into a field and harvested magic mushrooms yourself...

(1) suppose the case of white men who are sexually attracted to white and asian women, but not to black women. is this a case of racism? (2) suppose the case of white men who believe that music made by blacks is, in the great run of cases, more powerful, more funky, heavier, more sonically...

so far as i know, real live show don't have a website -- and therefore no sound clips and i think they've got their own label, i.e., not on nublu label but i'll make inquiries again, heavy music that is not easy to process and plus there's the problem of trying to decipher what they're...

CORRECTION -- both mc's are from queens -- or to be precise jamaica, queens -- i've no idea how i got it in my head that malik was from london

i didn't say that your perspective is irrelevant rather, i said it's irrelevant whether you care about the concerns and passions and arguments of american participants on this board -- i.e., you have a penchant for trying to pour water on our flames

there are rumors afloat that the initial post was a prank (which explains the rich language) but if the prank succeeded in suckering us all in, that's simply because it touched upon real concerns in which case the real joke is on the jokester himself -- i.e., anyone who treats common concerns...

yes, but it ties into the larger question of the credibility of uk sounds in the us -- a question that the americans on this board care about (so whether uk people care is, sorry to say, irrelevant) i'm suggesting that rave had credibility b/c early rave sounds were close enough to indigneous...

i actually stated pretty damn explicitly that i was speaking from my own experience i was in st louis at the time, the place was the upstairs lounge, the dj was flex boogie if you know him

wasn't early trance a bit of a ketamine scene & sound? also, i had this friend back in st louis who used to restore vintage appliances -- and in fact pretty much everything in his apartment was vintage, early 20th century furniture, etc -- he used to hang picture frames in the old-time fashion...

i'm going to make a conscious effort not to post so many events here (lest the miscellaneous forum become a dumping ground) however, this is a free party and jj sansaverino is definitely one of the top reggae guitarists in nyc jj has worked w/ maxi priest, george clinton, kelly price...

yeah -- liking the 2-step sound was not deemed trend-spotting and djs seemed to lead the way in playing 2-step -- i.e., i heard and danced to 2-step before reading about 2-step -- and in my experience 2-step was played mainly by house djs, not by djs specializing in 2-step as such

or rather, i should not have said "slowly" before the internet, when things were more subterranean, things developed much faster so maybe it's the subterranean networks that have broken down or maybe grime is simply too weak a phenomenon (i.e., not the music so much as the lack of...

yes, but surely you as an american wouldn't even know about grime were it not for the bloggers so it's a complicated issue errrr, i don't think it's that simple or dispassionate (at least not in the proper east london & essex context) and if it is that simple, then that counts pretty heavily...

i don't think it's theorization per se that disqualifies grime as subversive rather, i think it has to do with the internet being the central route of diffusion -- a slightly different problem i.e., outside of east london and essex, the grime scene has not developed as an underground scene...

saw real live show for the first time tonight -- very heavy, will likely take me all summer to process them -- let's just say for now that they're not your typical live hip hop band -- the roots they sure is not tipsy/freaky background singer named lisa e and an ultra freaky girl dancer who...

just now read silverdollar's blog piece -- i'll echo the consensus opinion on this one -- very interesting read