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    The Genius of Gurley

    got an email last year from the guy behind Tone Def, DJ Yomi, pointing out that 4 Horsemen did not simply = Foul Play alter ego, but was a collaboration with him.
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    The Genius of Gurley

    yes and with a through-line of diva-love and female R&B songstress samplige - SOS Band, Princess, et al
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    The Genius of Gurley

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    The Genius of Gurley

    apparently this was all his work, the other two admitted...
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    Shoegaze

    There's a bit of a logic glitch in that article's argument - AR Kane saying they were hugely inspired by Cocteau Twins, about as unblack as musicians can get! (spoken as someone inclined to argue for AR Kane's supreme godhead and centrality)
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    A Guy Called Gerald

    Gerald recently put out some music, really different from his previous sound(s) it's an amorphous 50-minute long single track release rationale: “I am fascinated by the science of sound. Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) or S-Quad or Squad is allegedly a technology used by the US...
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    Examples of other (non hardcore) continuums

    i can't remember the group (the Barkays?) but i did a thing on one of my blogs about how R&B groups changed with the times - the sounds, the equipment used, the stage clothes they wore - it was a sort of good but second-division outfit and you could trace across videos about 20 years of...
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    Examples of other (non hardcore) continuums

    you could call rock a continuum because there are many, many examples of bands who keep changing their sound all the way through like this guy Jesse Hector who was in a whole series of bands including the Hammersmith Gorillas and the Gorillas and basically went from the rock and roller era...
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    Ravey New York dance music - late 80s-early 90s

    Oh bum I was thinking about trying to write about DHS and dig out the story of "House of God" at some point, Kirk beats me to it. The House of God double-12 inch is almost an album's worth of music, but he did an album-album around that time, which is on streamers and it sounds pretty good...
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    rescoring

    I saw that Kevin Martin aka The Bug has rescored Solaris, which is a ballsy thing to do given the immensity of both the Tarkovsky film and the soundtrack by Artemiev I feel like this is a thing that others have done but I can't think of any other examples Did the dude from Portishead do one...
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    barty's guide to the post-punks

    I think it was called "rare soul" before it was called Northern Soul. Which is a pre-echo of rare groove.
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