MankyFiver
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so i believe kode 9 is remixing some folky dude james yorkston, stepping outside the boundaries
Got a faster computer?
Got bigger hair?
Never been to New Zealand?
"New Zealand" must be a swear word on this forum by now, I swear.
Thoughts on the piece? Boxcutter wouldn't be the album I'd personally choose to discuss, but fair play, to each his own.
just picked up the "roots of dubstep" cd and i've got to say that in addition to the great track selection (obviously), it's a really cool package. from a graphic design perspective, it's really well conceived...and that poster is a hoot, must have been a real challenge to map everything out.
actually surprised all the connections haven't already been debated here.
What a fickle and uncharitable response imho. "Pretentious twaddle"? I would have thought that the article practically reads like a compilation of dissensus views. The sentence about mixing was a bit silly, I agree, but at least the author tried to take the majority of his language from a reputable source, i.e., Blackdown's liner notes. Wilson writes, "Clark reminds listeners of the creative influence of the DJ as exercised through the improvised manipulation of tempo and key" - which is admittedly not ideal - but he then goes on to quote Blackdown's statement that beatmatching is “the iterative art of aligning two tracks by ear in real time,” “an imprecise science” that sometimes produces "transient flickers" in tempo (where I come from "transient flickers" in tempo while beatmatching are called mistakes lol). I agree that the phrase "improvised manipulation of tempo and key" is perhaps a bit cringeworthy, but hardly offensive - more like an attempt by a non-DJ to explain to an art crowd what a DJ does. Is that so bad? He certainly doesn't make a big deal of the point.Asides from the Sunn0))) reference did anyone else think that Artforum piece was pretty horrific...? The stuff about the improvisatory nature of dubstep DJing-- cringeworthy stuff. Almost nothing on the key thing which links it to installation art which is its site-specificity. Cluelessly taking offhand bloggers comments and taking them as gospel (yes, thats right we can all hear the developments into an excess of treble, can't we???). Pretentious twaddle.
most people would say you were lucky!
it should show up at play de record since they get tempa stuff no? i wish they'd get it together with their website though.
Some have already shown how interesting it can be and have been doing it for years in parallel to what was happening elsewhere.
Does it truly have to be about decaying london streets for it to be dubstep and where's the evidence for well proven dead ends of dance music past ???
I just get the pox of purist elitism from all that twaddle and a reluctance to address some deeper issues.
There is nothing to suggest that original journeys will be accepted into the genre as it stands unless it is made by an established 'forefather' or cliquey nepotist insider nor that it will generate interest from the backasswards looking scene unless it gets played out by Ma Hobbes or Joe Nice with a follow up vinyl release