Corpsey: wicked blog! Though I do think as of yet this stuff is still much more about escaping the shittyness of everything than plunging into the darkside. We'll see how long that lasts...
Banshee: haha, wicked! Out to the Jewish mum massive, your time. That little anecdote about the guys liking Wet Dollars is great, that's the amazing thing about the UK, and why despite life being pretty sweet in Japan I'm ifteb jealous of everyone at home. The fact that dance music is actually a part of people's lives, youc can can hear it coming from windows and cars, the big tunes chart sometimes, and chatting to young (and older people of a certain generation of course, nuff great cabbie chats about hardcore raves) people, everyone has a certain basic shared knowledge of the history, the tunes and sounds they loved, raving memories and stuff. In japan the scene as a whole is very very sub-cultural, it doesn't relate to the vast majority of people's lives, and you find yourself constantly preaching why it's all great and important to people who dot really get it. That and the fact that the biggest rave I went to had just over north of 200 people and people don't know how to brock out lol. Seems like the UKs in a golden age for raving right now, I'd make the most of that if I was there!
Re: Aaron vybe. Love love that mix obviously. But I can't help thinking I wish it was at 124 bpm rather than 130. Like would you be able to create that energy with those tunes at that speed? The thing is, the one thing deep tech has which garage, bassline, grime, Dnb, jungle etc don't is that chugging slowness. Right now I'm all about the intensity of slow, rather than the intensity of fast, and I'm more interested in the tracks that explore BANG which chugging along in the low 120s. Simon Reynolds once said that anyone can break a genre's conventions by making a track at a wildly different speed for example, but the real talent lies in expanding the possibilities of that genres conventions. For me that mix is like a gully, wicked garage mix, but would actually be a more interesting experiment, and quite possibly sound even darker as a year out, slow deep tech set