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One has to concede though that this Las Vegas incident is rather enigmatic - it doesn't fit the usual patterns, beginning with the age of the shooter.

Hey, that sounds like any self-respecting "anti-imperialist's" wet dream, right? On a more serious note, I think the motives are quite simple: Russia and the Saudis need higher oil prices (Putin more than the Saudi's) so being on good terms gives them the opportunity to increase the pressure on...

I am surprised by the linear increase in actual private gun ownership over the years. I am by no means surprised that the violent crime rate peaked during the Late Reagan and Bush senior years when the official policy on the poor was "fuck em, let them fend for themselves." In fact, Trump seems...

If I remember correctly, the relative number of guns per capita is similar in Switzerland (due to the nature of their army service, which allows people to have guns - even semi automatic guns I think, in their homes). Yet there was only one incidence in 2001 I believe in Switzerland which would...

Those tax cut plans are utter insanity.

The mighty one.... he was untouchable around '96

The driver is the lazyness of people. If you haven't your services optimized for smartphone usage, you'll go down soon (or are already history). Lazyness, of course, is just another word for dependence.

There are pros and cons of course, and if it's an "improvement" to have a new monopoly (which amazon pretty much is) is debatable (I don't think it's great but that's what the oh-so-praised digital economy is: winner takes it all, you have a monopoly within a very short time). I haven't dealt...

Damn, I only stumbled across this recently.... What a tune!

You can add AirBnB and pretty much any bank to the shitlist. Clever to let the actual costumers do lots of administrative work and call it all "convenience"

I recently was re-listening a lot of '96 jump up, and sad to say it had all the ingredients that later around 2002,3 would mutate into "Clown Step", especially the wobbly basslines. As for Ed Rush - Bludclot Artattack was great, but his finest hour was this:

Spot on on both accounts. I remember some playlists in my music mags from the late 90's that had Praxis DJs' favourites in them, and they contained NoUTurn, Tech Itch and Position Chrome releases. There were also some really harsh sounding TechStep bits coming out on the Praxis label as well...

Reynolds was beating that drum a bit IIRC. Main "Thesis": a lot of the black producers left around '97 for SpeedGarage. However some of the main "neurofunk offenders" were black like Grooverider or Mampi Swift. And wasn't the mid-range riff thing being popularized by Bad Company in the early...

And of course, there was this guy....

One of the Reinforced bits from '96 I love:

I hated Warhead back in the day, and I still do. In late 1997 I heard this EVERY night, at least the first few seconds. It is one of those "toilet tracks" meaning the DJ dropping it ususally sent me to the toilets immediately. Funny bc I consider Krust to be a top producer - aside from the...

^^ Moving Shadow was still releasing good stuff too in '96

...But then, the late 1990s were relatively boring and stale in general, at least in my recollection. There is this common idea that Jungle-turned-DnB around 97/98 was a bit crap and all that...Me thinks Techno had become formulaic and boring with the great hype of minimal techno even before...

By the mid/late 90s u also had an established "Dance Culture" following certain formulas, there was simply less place for experimentation left (both with the music and the venues/paties). Also, you can do just that much with manipulated breakbeats to make them "groove". You had those DrillNBass...

For the production-fetishists, yeah. As for another thing that pops up when debating DnB/"Neurofunk" it's been claimed that from 97/98 onwards, less and less girls were on the floors. OK, I am "from the continent", but I started going out at that time in my late teens, and there were plenty of...