Best songs you've ever heard?

[shiels]

To make a banger, a true populist banger, it has to be about the collective, you’re chosen as a conduit and allow it to move through you. Aphex can’t do this because he’s too much selfish artistic integrity and an auteurs vision

 

[pattycakes_]

windowlicker is full of hooks. he can write populist shit.

maybe daddek is right that 'they could do x if they wanted to' is thrown around too often.

but not in this case.

imho!

 

[shiels]

windowlicker is full of hooks. he can write populist shit.

I agree on hooks, hooks falling out of his pockets. But people need that on repeat one or two at a time and that would bore him. Alberto balsam is probably his more immediate and accessible thing

 

[shiels]

Maybe but who cares. He maybe could but won’t . Taste and desire and intention are more important than technical know how or mimicry. It’s not football

 

[pattycakes_]

The synths in this

 

[luka]

The synths in this

There was a sputhbank show guest presented by melle Mell and every song on it is imprinted on my memory and will always be magical.

Soul sonic force the message still no. 1 shut em down the boundaries listen to my nine millimetre go bang straight out of Compton today was a good day

 

[luka]

 

[sadmanbarty]

The synths in this

amazing song that is. really magical.

 

[sadmanbarty]

those synths once made me suddenly buy into the whole new york mythos. it transported me back to a sunny day sitting on the concrete steps of some tower block. illmastic is of a similar sound world.

 

[luka]

those synths once made me suddenly buy into the whole new york mythos. it transported me back to a sunny day sitting on the concrete steps of some tower block. illmastic is of a similar sound world.

Matthew Woebot said Giant Steps on his Walkman once made him hallucinate New York

 

[shiels]

Matthew Woebot said Giant Steps on his Walkman once made him hallucinate New York

I remember being extremely stoned listening to a 2step mix in Belfast and having very vivid visions of London, one particular Birdseye image of a hyper congested greyness but thrumming with all this intense creative energy

Moved here and it’s shite

 

[luka]

You need to be a native to access the magic otherwise you won't know which ley lines to walk

 

[shiels]

Nah people from London are fucked, understandable really.

 

[sadmanbarty]

i do agree with this. these awkward musicians, afx and burial being the most celebrated examples, they're actually trying to do dance music and can't, and are often at their best earnestly attempting pop and failing

this is my take on miles davis on the corner as well (and the in concert album from 73). it's a 45 year old bloke who doesn't understand this hip young funk music in the slightest. on the corner is completely unfunky. it's all awkward and off.

he even was outraged it didn't sell as well as headhunters which does suggest it was a genuine attempt to be funky that just missed the spot completely.

 

[shiels]

It’s fucked me too. My nervous system has adjusted to it. So I hate it when I’m there but everywhere else is just Not-London.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Matthew Woebot said Giant Steps on his Walkman once made him hallucinate New York

i remember playing my dad 'a love supreme' and he said that any idea that it's at all spiritual was just suggestion from the title and coltrane's schtick. he said it just sounds like busy new york.

 

[sadmanbarty]

poor corpse did a whole thread about music and space and none of us mentioned any of this.

 

[Corpsey]

It’s fucked me too. My nervous system has adjusted to it. So I hate it when I’m there but everywhere else is just Not-London.

This has reminded me of how I used to feel about London, and how I no longer feel that way about it at all — and feel that everywhere else sort of doesn't exist. :crylarf:

 

[sadmanbarty]

This has reminded me of how I used to feel about London, and how I no longer feel that way about it at all — and feel that everywhere else sort of doesn't exist. :crylarf:

the m25 is one of those circles you put around you in magic rituals.

 

[Corpsey]

The scale of it is so huge that it makes everything outside of it seem inconceivably distant. Even in other big cities in the UK you can sort of see where they end. You can drive across them quite quickly.