Educate Spendy on the ghost of Dissensus past

[entertainment]

i had not heard of 95% of this stuff before coming here and i'm still in the early stages of familiarizing with the styles and codes and psyche but this essay helped quite a bit with the jungle stuff:

The Wire 300: Simon Reynolds on the Hardcore Continuum #2: Ambient Jungle (1994) - The Wire

www.thewire.co.uk

 

[WashYourHands]

DiY Soundsystem - Leftlion - Nottingham Culture

We look back at the history behind the legendary free party collective...

www.leftlion.co.uk

 

[WashYourHands]

I can’t be the only Castlemorton veteran?

 

[luka]

I can’t be the only Castlemorton veteran?

I'm very old now but I was only 12 in '92

 

[WashYourHands]

My brother included an over 50 health plan pamphlet from Boots in my last birthday card. Cunt, aye.

 

[sus]

do we want to be a free for all where you can spout any old political or moral or aesthetic opinion no matter how ugly or reactionary without any pushback or pisstaking? I think these questions are interesting and important.

The Paradox of Tolerance

This seems to be a real thing at the moment and so many are acting in such bad faith that it's becoming harder and harder to navigate. You take a look at more or less any political discussion online and there are people supporting some appalling things falling back on it simply being a matter of...

www.dissensus.com

 

[luka]

yes these are issues riven with paradox and irresolvable tension

 

[sus]

a lot of these trax sound like "beep boop, fireflies without the gay singing"

 

[sus]

I wont' say which of version's I like because I can't be sure I'm not having one pulled over on me

 

[luka]

keep an open mind and next time you take drugs revist them. and as i say, listen to the music in its original context where possible.

 

[luka]

there's very little point in skimmming youtubes in a defensive mindset from my experience. but having some familiarity with the recent history of popular music is worthwhile in itself even if you ultimately decide you don't 'like' it.

 

[thirdform]

mvuent is a Serious Character, to use an Ezra Poundism, and most people aren't so unless you've got the moral fibre, the energy, the intellectual ambition and integrity mvuent's got you're probably not going to do what he did but i do think it's helpful to get some sense of chronology and also a sense of how the music was consumed at the time. so less time grazing on youtubes of individual songs untethered from context and more with the mixes from the time, from pirate radio and from rave tape packs. avoid all modern retrospective mixes.

modern retrospective mixes for the elite, like myself.

 

[sus]

I like the radio shows cuz they break up all the beeping and booping with british accents, all "yeh? gunna be a biggun, dinnit"

 

[sus]

there's very little point in skimmming youtubes in a defensive mindset from my experience. but having some familiarity with the recent history of popular music is worthwhile in itself even if you ultimately decide you don't 'like' it.

I'm not defensive, I'm giving you shit!

 

[sus]

I am listening to all of these with rapt attention, ready to learn

 

[luka]

I like the radio shows cuz they break up all the beeping and booping with british accents, all "yeh? gunna be a biggun, dinnit"

that makes it a lot better yeah. listening to other people listening and enjoying enchances our own understanding and enjoyment.

 

[luka]

I'm not defensive, I'm giving you shit!

i know but i was choosing to rise above it

 

[sus]

that makes it a lot better yeah. listening to other people listening and enjoying enchances our own understanding and enjoyment.

Spendy's Hot 100 Indie

 

[luka]

and obviously there's lots of stuff written by reynolds eshun fisher etc which can enhance your understanding and enjoyment in other ways

 

[thirdform]

at elite level you don't even need radio shows and talking, unless it's garage and grime. just brain scrambling sonix.