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errr, guess it's pretty obvious that "dinesh" is an indian name! but he's also clearly of some african descent, so perhaps india to south africa or india to west indies (or perhaps his parents met in the states, one parent indian, the other black) -- i don't know, and it's not the kind of thing...

thought i'd report some impressions from the field . . . . dj dinesh and mr. poole had their first friday night gig at white rabbit last night ----- greg had been playing old-school funk at white rabbit on wednesdays, but now looks like he and dinesh will be playing there regularly on fridays ...

or perhaps the "calling into question enjoyment" thesis works for pop-1, but not necessarily for pop-2 or pop-3? btw does anyone else find the pop-1, pop-2, pop-3 scheme helpful? or am i the only one?

i suppose i've just gone and re-introduced the pop-1/pop-2/pop-3 confusion into the argument -- sorry! and to again clarify by what i mean by rave -- i don't think that constantly increasing bpm's or chipmunk voices or mentasm stabs etc etc capture the greatness of the scene/moment/sound -- so...

this notion of sublime pop "raising questions about its own commodity status, about what enjoyment means," and so forth, may work for 79-82 post-punk/art-pop movement ------- but it seems unable to explain the greatness or sublimity of other moments in pop history again, i want a definition...

don't think the song pertains merely to men who wear military uniforms -- it also applies to people who wear camouflage whenever it's said to be in fashion (and it's been in and out of fashion since at least the early 80s) plus the entire sex game (role play) angle of the lyrics is effective

i have a bad habit of dividing things into arbitrary classes, but let me do so again on the basis of my understanding of k-punk's piece on scritti politti -- and i'll try to keep it brief (1a) the "mike skinner" lad, i.e., the lad who reads lad magazines and feels no guilt -- his pleasures are...

kinda corresponds w/ hegel's notion of the fetishized object as most primitive stage of religion (and so we post-Xians have as a matter of course moved in this direction) the object has magical properties in the grooves of the record the spirits move and in playing the records, we hear and...

yes -- it's a very low-level political choice nor is there anything artistic about consuming another person's work (unless you're a dj) it's more like post-Xian religious devotion and so here record collecting becomes a "quest" (SR's apt term upthread) to bring the spirits and deities into...

i disagree . . . . or rather, maybe the album's not that great, but in general i prefer the later releases ("man in a uniform," "we live as we dream alone") over the earlier releases

saw kudu again last night . . . . fucking brilliant . . . . bass higher in the mix than ever before . . . . and yes, i will keep posting on kudu until somebody at dissensus bothers to see them . . . . disagree, agree, correct what i say, whatever . . . . hearing kudu live there are no...

well i think there's something definitely "adolescent" about my whole approach to music and the way i think of the dance music scene as a community that i somehow belong to . . . . and there are things virtuous and vicious about maintaining this stance, self-realizing and self-destructive . . ...

actually we have 3 threads right now discussing aspects of this issue (1) this thread -- which opposes the pop mindset (2) stelfox's thread -- which opposes the world music mindset (3) mms' thread -- which questions the mindset of rich white folk n2 roots reggae music so let's have a go of...

i was so eager to discuss this topic that i wrote far too much, w/ the probable result that most people rolled their eyes and skipped over my remarks -- i got my just comeuppance however, lost in the glut of words i wrote is the question that particularly interests me, which is the nature of...

10 very good reasons for liking pop music -- well done! obviously Woebot and many others at dissensus would side w/ commercial hip hop as against indie hip hop and most would agreet that today's pop music is much better than that of 10 years ago but I think that what Woebot has in mind by...

again, if we move to pop 2 and pop 3, then i think it all depends on whether you're a believer or participant in the pop movement that claims to define the times -- if you felt yourself swept up in rave, you likely believed it constitutive of your generation -- and if you didn't participate or...

Excellent post! And very well written too (not to sound patronizing -- and i'm certainly in no position to patronize anyone here -- but i'm often very impressed by the sheer extent of your talents, which i used to think (naively) confined to drawing comic strips and doing computer graphics...

CORRECT! -- confirmed it last night! -- thanks! quite impressive -- 2 guesses based on my lousy descriptions, and both guesses turned out to be correct will try to post mp3's here by end of week

that mark kinchen track i was trying to think of is "first bass" by separate minds, which endlessly loops some early 80s arcade game theme -- not sure which game somebody should do a compilation of dance tracks with themes sampled from video games

again, i'd emphasize that live show is much more dark and raw than the audio clips -- in particular, in the live shows the live drumming is accentuated (i guess that's redundant!), and the whole sound is much more "wet," and the entire feel much more groovy/voodoo/psychedelic -- the audio clips...