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damn. on to the next business plan then.

I think Dj C's "Gone a Jail" has significant "traditional beauty" - actual several on the Mashit label fit that idea.. His earlier stuff under the name Electro Organic Sound System might also be to your taste.

welcome to breakcore! at least one of the strains of it I really like (the blurred line between mashup and remix) (so yeah there's tons of hoo-hah about there being a genre called breakcore and what it means, muchlike the grime/dubstep debates, but i consider it a network of people and sounds...

the problem sounds familiar, but I don't think it relates to whether a producer knows their history or not. How does knowing history of a genre make you want to imitate the "now sound" less? If the now sound is what's doing well, some people want to catch on to that. I see that as a bad thing...

worried why?

I think you're on to something here for sure. However I do also agree with atomly and others that this can limit the development of a scene, especially one beyond London. As someone beyond london myself, I've got a vested interest. Also as someone who got into this whole thing via my love of...

I'm not sure what "entry" into the "scene" means. but it sounds like as one of the (few) djs who plays dubstep in northern cali, let alone the US, I should just quit now, eh? Apparently I've got nothing to offer? So much for all those hot flush records I bought! good luck with the demand side!

this is interesting.. I hadn't thought of it like that. I think by dj in this context you mean the dj who also produces? do you think djs who don't produce but only play records released by other people contribute anything to the scene (besides being publicity for the artists they play)...

Just listening to it yesterday. I enjoyed it quite a bit, in a snapshots of sound kind of way. (except for MAH -count me in the "gettin' on my nerves" crew, although it seems like she's doing a service to the music) I'm also frustrated at the amount of unreleased tunes floating around, though...

Interesting. Do you have evidence for this? There is actually a host of research about life expectancy and income in the US. Most recently there is a study done at Harvard School of Public Health on life expectancy, that shows the correlation between income and life expectancy. The average...

Unless it's wildly different over there, a mixtape is compiled by a third party (often a dj), and the selection of tracks is based on that person's criteria, rather than based on whether there is any contractual relationship between the artists on the mixtape and the maker. Whereas an album is...

How low the bottom is, however, and how wide the spread is, is a matter of politics. The few on the top are always trying to push the bottom and the middle lower, and the job of everyone else is to push back. No mathematical necessity explains the fact thath the MTA has run a surplus and still...

Snap! reminds me of the fact that many of these clunky rappers were ex-US Military. I forget his name, the guy in Snap! but he was, and so is Hammer.. and I know there are others (Shaggy too, I think). They all have this really square, literal, clunky non-flow.. anyone have counterexamples or...

Oh, man, accurate analysis, and no need to apologize in my book. big up for actually answering the question I asked, and giving us all actual information!

Oh MAN I had forgotten about that. Not just rapping, but rapping with an animated cat. horrific. are we including novelty dance tunes? probably not - not really popular but a sort of result of popularity in other venues... but the cartoon cat (MC SKat Cat - who was it really?) made me think of...

I haven't found much specific history about this - was there something that set it off? http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17532940-2,00.html

Pink Pearl apples are lovely. eaten various kinds of seaweed (nothing special for folks who like japanese food)

word, on the Fukuyama. Also, Robert Heinlein - at least, the absolute nadir of his work - Fifth Column, in which the "pan-asians" invade america, featuring a trusty half-breed who helps the whites resist the invasion, but can't be fully on the team because there's something in asian people's...

Wow, when I was messing around in Berlin in the mid-90s I interviewed her.. we hung out a bit. great band, Jingo de Lunch! And Bad Brains (while HR was the singer) were amazing. I always regretted missing seeing them, I against I and the self-titled album were constant soundtracks to high...

mmm.. I know that most major email companies scan all emails as part of spam blocking and virus blocking. they could use that capability for evil as easily as google could. Ah. well, that does seem to be more particular to google. But I haven't found it to be an issue - you just have to not...