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I dunno. When you're in your teens / early 20s the music you get into has a deeper more meaningful effect on you than it's ever likely to at any other time in your life. Does that mean that was the best time in music in general, hell no. You get this kind of opinion from older dudes who got...

I think it was a combination various factors. When one side of the scene is becoming increasingly mainstream and commercial, the more underground elements will try and distance themselves from that sound, so you get a mutation into techy harder sounds. Were it was once about experimentation...

Maybe if you were more into the original Jungle scene and that side of things, otherwise 95 was a seminal year IMHO. Although it could also be looked at as a pinnacle from which everything slowly went down hill. Goldie's Inner City Life/Timeless, Ltj Bukem - Horizens, Alex Reese - Pulp Fiction...

A friend of mine had a theory back in the day that it was Roni Size's chart attack dinner table jazz efforts that were final the nail in the coffin for drum and bass. Personally shit like Rudimental and that other 'live dnb' rock crossover act that got popular a few years ago, what ever they...

I quiet liked this - http://runtime-records.com/album/exile-ep A lot of what I've heard of this new wave of dnb, even in this thread, doesn't really sound like dnb to me. A fair amount of it seems to exist in the kinda realm of dubstep / downtempo. It's an interesting hybrid of styles tho...

Fact did a '10 of the best' type thing http://www.factmag.com/2013/09/16/lord-of-the-beats-the-best-10-tracks-so-far-from-grimes-production-war/ plus some more...

Some live streaming Teklife Dj session - http://www.skylinesessions.tv

some typically odd japanese juke with a pretty amazing video. kinda nsfw (especially if there's japanese speakers about) <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oOa3skIlBIc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

New Lil Jabba track

New DJ Earl - https://ghettoteknitianz.bandcamp.com/album/far-away-ep If ya hadn't heard it already Rashad's new lp on hyperdub leaked

What you're describing sounds a bit like vaporwave, Virtual, New Dreams Ltd., INTERNET CLUB, Computer Dreams, MJ Linckoln, Lasership Stereo, VΞRACOM that sort of thing. http://www.dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave

He was in a car crash apparently.

Come on, that seems even more tenuous than your original point. The insistence on not using presets comes from very much outside of Grime. Whereas, the culture that created and defined almost everything about sampling in the modern MPC style context, has strict self imposed rules. It's not...

Not really. Sampling has a 30 odd year weight of history. FruityLoops grime presets don't. But really it just comes down to personal taste.

Interesting read. Although I was a little puzzled by your opening question as I thought the answer was kinda obvious. The lack drums or of any complex drum rhythms in Northern European folk and religious music of the time, coupled with a basic knowledge of the African slavery history in...

I guess juke is just flying far enough under the radar to be missed.? It's not like the fringes of dance music has ever really felt the force of a sample rights letigeous crack down in the way hip hop has. But coming from a hip hop point of view, their liberal use of uncleared samples is kinda...

Traxman has some amazing trax for sure, but I can't help but be a little disappointed when he's cutting up some mids 90s sample staples, and not even flipping it particularly creatively. From a hip hop perspective that shit wouldn't fly, all that scratching will indeed make you itch. Plus I'm...

Thanks SP. There's so much good stuff going unreleased. They could at least put some comps up on bandcamp or something.

Short section from a new documentary on footwork directed by Wills Glasspiegel. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JpHY8BiLcQs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> A homemaade comp of older juke/footwork trax & can someone tell what the track that plays...

The Visionist EP comes out on LIT CITY today. Interesting to see them branching out as a label, but I'm left wondering why they're not concentrating on building up the juke/footwork catalogue, and can't say I'm overly excited by this preview track. They're old now, but you just want...