spaggethi dread has been known to keep me in the flat for over 1 hour waiting for a draw, just talking
at least it used to get me out the house. it gives the day some shape. a mission. how do i get weed today? right, ive called up everyone and it seems like today i have to travel an hour across town and wait outside an estate on a specific wall at midnight for a man in a velour tracksuit
not even a debate that. the Christian Todd does one thing well, and that's it. Whereas the God Todd laughs at us mere mortals for our conservative use of samples. @craner will you recover from this?
fucking hate weed dealers
i'm not a fan of decriminalisation or legalisation because it it'll result in more expensive and and shittier weed, but i hate being at the mercy of some dude, and if i could just pop out to the corner shop and buy my skunk and be home in 5 minutes then i'd be happy, but no, have to sit there and listen to their shit and then skin up and waste my weed with some stoner, etc...
full disclosure; used to deal hash on "behalf" of someone else and honestly, I'd think don't skin up, just stick it in your pocket and get the fuck out...but that's just me
Not to tangent too hard, heard this somewhere on a slope near Todmorden via Mr Hawkins and it’s a big rig monster
i mostly experienced the freeparty thing from a distance (had maybe the best night of my life at a spirals party held
at prague's cibulka, helped out with one of their shows in the US), but having been heavily into the crusty/squatter thing prior
to becoming obsessed with dance music, it spoke to me in a way no other rave subculture did.
liked their aesthetic, thought Network 23 was a pretty good label, and loved a lot of the music i associated with the
scene (90s frenchcore + breakcore, mostly), tho i agree that most of the actual Spiral Tribe branded stuff is almost
comically bad, especially this recentish "reunion" release:
here are a couple of my favorite ketno junts:
this mix was also big for me, once upon a time:
always thought explore toi had a uniquely schizophrenic energy i've never seen elsewhere in dance:
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venerable SFO crew who still do good work, and don't receive half the credit they deserve:
The french gabber/speedcore stuff like notek is good, and explore toi as you say. All that 69 db stuff is just bog standard ketno to me. I mean, if you're going to go hardcore, push that aesthetic to its limit. the hacker under the xmf alias really did that.
XMF - Antimusic
Does what it says on the tin. The Hacker, prior to making electro. no ketno business
no-tek - System Cracked
Unrelenting speed gnosis, like Birmingham techno on the most evil acid trip this side of guantanamo. Makes all the ketno stuff sound like the cartoon plink plonk it is.
those are incredible! had no idea XMF and The Hacker were the same person!
always felt as if ketno and noisecore had different intentions, despite often being
played at the same events. noisecore aspires to push boundaries, while ketno is
just bros having fun on drugs making music for bros to have fun on drugs to.
the best onket really does replicate the sensation of listening to tekno on ketamine
rather adequately. their heavy use of layering has been a big influence on
the way i produce, and not a thing i find much of in non-free party techno.
the sound design is often uniquely spangled also, and has only recently been
outdone by psycore, aka the very finest raving music available in the universe
today:
I don't really like ketamine. And ketheads can be quite insufferable to be around. I prefer full frontal lsd psychosis.
and psycore is obnoxious but funny bullshit imo. just psytrance sped up to 200 bpm, but with exactly the same traps as regular psytrance — off beat bassline, stupid plastic kicks, etc. Makes neurofunk and jump up look positively sophisticated in comparison. If they got rid of those trappings and had more classic 909s, some of the sound design could be interesting. But it's like that Simon Posford guy, he makes mad sounds but in the service of whimsy medieval hippie jig.
listening to uk/euro people shit on this kind of thing is always hilarious to me, as everything about it sounds like way more fun than literally anything you'd find in most of the US on any given saturday night, complete clique overkill to point of satire:
1. baseball cap askew at an upward 45 degree angle, a tribe signal from “Czech” to Grimsby
2. polo nostriled, “need any K, bruv?” or “got any K, bruv?”, the latter “on tick?!”
3. combat trousers, boots, puffa jacket/assorted techno regalia, bic-shaven now overgrown hair or dreads or both, chain key ring assortments so k-holes don’t end up with lost personal items only for this entire scheme to disintegrate on day 2
4. one dog for every 6 people
5. for every dog tons of k-holed victims soiling themselves crumpled sort of sway zombie dancing, stubbing a fag out on your arm while drool droning on about their ”vehicle”, or “Indian pharmacy K runs” or the semi-ubiquitous ”site”
listening to uk/euro people shit on this kind of thing is always hilarious to me, as everything about it sounds like way more fun than literally anything you'd find in most of the US on any given saturday night