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would be a miracle if you did.

@craner what are your views on the Lucy Letby debacle?

Yeah the main issue with Semprum's turgid book (I read the whole thing for my sins) is that it's just an utterly irrelevant ahistorical diatribe.

fry going to opine on the lucy letby debacle then?

anyway choon of the day. can you handle it? @blissblogger

don't really have anything to say in youtube chats but will pop my head in.

have some decent (nothing particularly special) trancey/proggy mixtapes from billy nasty but yeah even he abandoned it mostly come 95 as it descended into overrought melodrama for blokes called Gerry.

That was when techno had a lot of freedom. Could be housey stuff from 125 to mindmelting analog kickdrum mayhem. Goa/trance and prog house were the nails in the coffin though.

I spoke to tim reaper about this. sent him a track with a darbuka break. but there are too many rattling highs so chopping it is a bit awkward.

jungle is somewhat of an anomaly in that sense, new breaks or new sample sources or new ways of arranging things need to be discovered for vitality. Whereas with techno it can too often turn into overcomplicated sound design. This isn't an issue for jungle imo.

that's Tadd Mullinix, super underrated producer, although I think his techno is more unique and less overtly retro, just by virtue of it being analog distorted synth tweaking.

re the left as historical category, of course my politics are informed by it, inevitably so, even if to go against the bourgeois ideologies of anti-imperialism and national independence. But I suppose in a way my cut off point in that sense is the collapse of the USSR, not because the USSR was...

i was gonna recommend that Tamas piece actually! but thought it would be too much of a digression.

I need to stick those two diagnostic (aka atomhead) livesets on hearthis or youtube tomorrow for @dilbert1 - rave Ligeti.