Even though accessibility is better I dont make the assumption that everyone listens to every show or goes through youtube looking for new tracks. In fact it makes me be more focused if anything because there is so much choice in terms of what to listen to out there.
Someone last night asked me what Faze Miyake - Take Off was and that is one of the most played Grime tracks of the past 12 months.
Just balance init. I don't need to play Woooo Riddim every week now, but if people didn't for a period of time it would have never got that big.
Love classifying albums by season. It's not a Glasgow winter album certainly. I was back up there three weeks and back into some harsh electronica, haha. Amazing album though.I can recommend the Peaking Lights album if you like long dubby slightly Krautrocky guitar tunes. It's not really a winter album in my opinion
what are the anthems of bass scene anyway? top of my head comes that Jamie XX's tune and Sicko Cell (although that might be more of Boddika/Swamp81 thing)...
It's just that that kind of aesthetic doesn't fit into Reynolds' conception of what constitutes the 'new'. If you get the same feeling as him from listening to new music, then fine, but if there's plenty of stuff that excites you then it seems a shame to let a middle aged critic convince you that it's all bunk. I think the persuasiveness of his writing (he's a brilliant writer) and his level of influence has, lately, convinced a lot of people that their tastes are in some way 'wrong'.