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pitch control also influenced development of house -- re: ron hardy playing disco records at feverish pace

here's the remaining passages of the article Marxism, brilliant as it is in comprehending the science of economics and the "truth" of exploitation, flounders too often when it comes to the psychology of politics. We are, with good reason, baffled as to why the "workers of the world" cannot see...

Came across this article entitled "Contretemps: Derrida's Ante and the Call for Marxist Political Philosophy," by a certain Richard Joines. Not sure when the article was written. "Specters of Marx" came out in 1994, and "Marx and Sons" came out in 2002 . . . . It's all a bit too conspiratorial...

perhaps it's a question of grime entering america by various routes . . . . how so? can't say i've ever been to a crunk rave (?????) . . . . go to any big downtown club in nyc, and the djs (as i'm sure you well know) will be playing lots of crunk. the music is undeniable. it rules the...

that's the problem in a nutshell. grime in the states will be a middle-class, student phenomenon. idm cottoning on to the criticism set against it . . . . early jungle had a significant west indian immigrant following in the states, but despite the analogous position of today's grime i'd bet...

I may be able to help you out, not directly, but through friends . . . . my e-mail is "dominic1972@hotmail.com"

I picked up a copy of Conquering Lion's "Code Red" (94 remix b/w original) at Kim's Video a few weeks' back. Thought, naively, I had made a major find, a used record in pristine condition. Then earlier this week I happened upon a copy of same record at Virgin Union Square. So looks like this...

Thanks for the tip on the website for classic Bobby Konders mixes. Will check it out soon. I agree that the NYC house scene changed for the worse when the likes of Bobby Konders left the fold. And others, like his keyboardist Peter Daiou, simply went crap. However, if you like dubby house...

DJs Josey and James have a new night at Anatomy, a small bar (with basement) on 5th Street b/w A &B. Josey, who sings reggae professionally, is best known for organizing and djing the reggae night at Lotus on the LES. James, aka "Jungle Jimmy," is from somewhere in England, and used to...

i'd drop aerosmith and metallica from the list, and replace them with, first, the stooges, and, second, the queens of the stone age collective i suppose we're not to include anything too artsy on this list?

thanks for the mix -- would probably rate the Tek 9 track the best. and the last track, "Look for a Spark"

So far as the K-Punk/Reynolds debate goes, I think that K-Punk has the better understanding of "rationalism," but that Reynolds is correct in arguing that the cultural elements of fascism, as elements, are not fascist in themselves, that the elements are fascist only when instantiated and...

The practical part of K-Punk has to do with his Spinozist take on good and bad affects, active feelings (joy) and sad passions. Good affects prepare the individual to take action, whereas bad affects make the individual a slave to alien passions, that is, sad, powerless, resentful. As for the...

One Tribe feat GEM -- "What have you done" -- one of my all-time faves The desolate soul of Mr Fingers' "Can U Feel It" but with a breakbeat beneath The actual rapping -- "I'm Not Dracula" -- is borderline ridiculous. With the UK accent, almost sounds as if the MC can't get the words out --...

not the one that i saw, which John Bitumen also seems to have seen, on his side of the Atlantic, the album with the surfer girl on front . . . . the label was definitely not Luaka Bop. more like a specialist psych label, but with a very "generic" name -- which is why i'm at a loss as to its...

For NYers, I came across "Psychedelic Sounds of Africa" at Kim's Video @ St Mark's Place. Didn't buy it because most of the tracks were out of South Africa (too white & 3rd-rate) and not nearly as good as the few tracks featured from places like Zambia (brilliant & singular & informed by...

Did Nietzsche not use "received grammar" for expressing his views? Plato? Machiavelli? Rousseau? Or would Butler consider these thinkers "not radical," somehow superificial? More generally, I would say that when a thinker resorts to "difficult language," he (or she) had better deliver on the...

at last a worthy rejoinder to k-punk's argument that smoking pot is in the service of the system

Heard this record this weekend. Thought it wonderful. UK garage with pop chops. 100% sugar content. Anyone familiar with it? Also, heard last night that my favorite NYC dance band Kudu got signed by XL recordings