Tell me more about the Art Blakey. Why that track and/or album in particular?
What do you think of Free For All?
68) ☠iskeletor - Afromax (Gantz Seytan Remix)
The theory of vibe migration always instructs you to keep an eye on areas where the vibe is least expected. often those culturally dormant areas can be where the life blood of vibe reside. take this, officially filed under the dubstep genre, a piece of turkish electronics with an anti-clockwise groove that both feels like the coil has come loose from the drum track but also reversed fx and bass that feels like you're being sucked backwards, and backwards, and backwards...
into a black hole. often avant-funk prides itself onn being more gangster than thou. this however takes no punches and goes full wonky.
Oh, as for that vibe migration? unsurprisingly, this was too far out for the dmz massif for it to stick longterm. dubstep today is either trapstep or rootstep. none of which i am particularly enamoured with on any significant level. I'll still occasionally dip in though, see what's cookin. but if it's plodding half step tune after half step tune for 30 minutes, you bet I'll be switching off, fast.
72) Spragga Benz - Gooda than gold
I hear an outer space
gangsta-techno fantasy.
I actually perhaps have more sympathy than some on this forum for Kirk degiorgio's applied rhythmic technology theories. lord knows that I'm sick of Italo and its descendents being lionised in worldwide techno circles ad nauseam. but the problem is back in the 80s you had to take sides outside of London and even in some quarters certain crowds would not mix. reggae heads and soul boys, of course. Greg Wilson talks about this a bit as well in manchester, you were either a funk head or a dub head. looking back with the hindsight of rave the division looks infantile and a classic case of macho gate keeping. But it was persistent and the after effects are still noticeable. perhaps some scholars such as Eden and Droid can illustrate why this was so, illuminate the tensions. So yeah, he (kirk) missed a whole swathe of hard minimal techno experimentation in Jamaica in the 80s and 90s. and of course this fitted into the UK techno continuum.
As for this one, check the pummelling kicks in the low end triggering the heart palpitations.
bad choon.
god i hope not i kinda realise dancehall is still the one genre of music that hasn't been infested with all this bullshitSomeone needs to write a book on dancehall to end the simon vs joe muggs war. But it will probably have to be a white tory. Liberals get too squeemish.
god i hope not i kinda realise dancehall is still the one genre of music that hasn't been infested with all this bullshit
last thing i want is Busy Signal doing gigs with an orchestra in royal albert hall
good keep it that way they try, by god to they tryNah you're right. But tbf dance music people know jack shit about dancehall.
it's got a harsh, sadistic beat. i quite like it.getting me to listen to that i guess is the exact equivalent of forcing catalog to listen to rap music