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I really want to hear this, "The Charge (Remix)" was probably my favourite grime track from last year.

A few more random selections from the vault: <b>DND - Pick it Up (DND Mix)</b> One thing I love in 2-step is that thick percussive xylobass sound pushed right up into the treble, so you get this really odd sensation where what seems to be the bassline is actually really high-pitched and kinda...

When we say we obejct to nihilism in music, don't we simply mean we object to nihilism we can "see through" - nihilism which fails to affect us, which is all bark and no bite? Most criticisms of "emo" approaches to music (of any genre) I've seen seem to object to the way that the emotion in...

Actually I basically agree with you dominic - I was saying that <i>for the styles that Simon wrote about</i> the short shelflife/innovation thing was a sign of quality, i.e. it was intimately bound up in what made that particular music exciting and interesting. Whereas with other genres (like...

Villalobos's Perlon album felt to me like one big build-up to "True To Myself", which I thought was marvellous - but that was kinda it. The Guido Schneider remix of Dub Kult's "On & On" is I suspect the ultimate faux-Villalobos record for people who find the real thing hard to love.

I think esp. in the areas of dance music Reynolds used to write about heavily, quick disappearance <i>was</i> a sign of quality - the transformation of 'ardkore into jungle into 2-step into grime was not so much about trendiness as it was about a certain creative restlessness and taste for sonic...

"Innaresting thing about these three is that in many ways they were the soundtrack/posterboys of the INTERNET BOOM 1999-2000 period, and seem to have busted the same way. " Use other thoughts please! "I don't wanna sound like an arse, but as much as I admire Reynolds writing, it always seems...

Remix corner... <b>Some-Thing-Else? - Peace, Luv & Happiness (New Horizons Mix)</b> Not quite 2-step but close enough, New Horizons going crazy with da beats, enormous bassline and a hyperventilating diva's cut-up vocals splashin' like champagne. At the time New Horizons reminded me of...

P.S. Props to Wikipedia for checkin' for "Summer Jam"!!

more generally i agree entirely with Matt's opening post - I think that (some obvious figures most of whom populate this forum aside) a lot of critics are very lazy when it comes to 2-step. I often wonder if the ubiquity of "Destiny" and "Neighbourhood" as reference points (awesome tunes though...

i am the king of unheralded 2-step obv and have half written an article on this very topic several times. All must hunt down: 1) Doc B & Eagle E's "Pure Rumours" - which is a bit like the "Ghost Town" of 2-step. Over a now mysterious and eerie, now excitable and horn-skanking groove, a dapper...

Haven't heard the mix-tape but I've always thought the lyrics on <i>Lord Willin</I> were excellent! "So sad but we won't think twice/we're rich, we get the best judicial advice!"

Loved your review Mark. However I wouldn't be surprised if <I>A Sea of Honey</i> grows on you until it nearly matches <i>A Sky of Honey</i> - I've found its appeal more ambiguous and awkward but also very insidious. "A Coral Room" in particular is quite astonishing. Oddly it's almost a reversal...

As if on cue, the Kompakt newsletter announces that Grummich has a mix-cd coming out on Shitkatapult: "MIX CD - CLUB MARIA, BERLIN. PETER GRUMMICH TAKES HIS TOOLS AND MAKES NOT ONLY THE CAPITAL TREMBLE ...FEAT. DEADBEAT, ARK, AUDION, SERGEJ AUTO, J. COTTON, J. STARLIGHT, LEO CUBANERO, GRUMMICH...

Has anyone heard that recent Peter Grummich album by the way? Is it any good?

Haven't heard those specific tracks but if it's Grummich and Audion... sounds like some kind of Post-Knartz affair ("Knartz" being German sawtooth techno)? Slowing it down strikes me as something of a "new beat" manouevre which might work really well...

The album is spectacular - especially the second disc. GFC, you should start with <i>The Hounds of Love</i>, then try <i>The Dreaming</i>, and then this I reckon.

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Sticking a toilet in a gallery is not universally perceived as innovative! Let alone disco, hip hop... But anyway I understand where you're coming from, but my point <i>still</i> stands: how is dance music falling short of other contemporary music in this regard. indeed, by yr yardstick there...

Simon I get the good vs great distinction - that's what I meant about the oscillation, the fact that this music seems good not great b/c of abundance and/or because it's actually good not great. The technical production-centric explanations for this abundance of <i>good</i>ness does go a fair...