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@sus it appears I owe you an explanation, lest my reputation as a really stand up personable humane guy be sullied. I figured your interest in attending the situationist event was (like mine) contingent on the event itself, not on the basis of my attendance, and that should we both attend...

I see. I should probably discuss this more with gus thank you for letting me know

That sounds fun. Drink plenty of water!

Be honest with me

@luka why do you think I seem like a bad person?

@thirdform Yeah, in addition to most of the left being sentimentalist Rousseauians, they’re largely Stalnist and Maoist and revisionist and reformist. But Stalin, Mao, Bernstein, Miliband… they’re gravediggers of the revolution, gravediggers of freedom, of revolutionary Marxism, gravediggers of...

@thirdform If I ever “defend capitalism” it is a demonic defense. Only a diabolical leftism is acceptable!

@0bleak That’s great you even managed to play out Scud, I can’t imagine a room of people tolerating that today unless you were preaching to the hardcore post-jungle choir. That’s another thing about the digital hardcore continuum, they weren’t making records for DJs, there was maybe a contempt...

Bravo @0bleak and @thirdform for putting me on to some bad tunes. Sorry for the melodrama Third there’s something about your communication that sometimes causes me to lose my usual cool calm composure its not your fault

I never felt personally insulted. But I think the idea that seeing significance in something, seeing it as worthy of discussion or even some level of admiration is the same as “championing” it is odiously anti-intellectual. I was only defending that open more disinterested space of...

The vocals are cringey enough to warrant a punk comparison. Spikey tones as well

Great point, goes to show how (not) “political” their mindset really is

Have you read this piece by GM Tamas? https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5852/2748 If you have, know that I have too, so your point about the Rousseauian, non- or anti- Marxist nature of the left is well taken. There I didn’t mean the left as a sociological phenomenon, but...

Like this is excellent, amazing stuff. Incredible honestly. And i can see why you’re like, “if this is there why bother with that?” Its just apples and oranges to me. I like this tune because its a fantastic beat, its phenomenal music, not dully pragmatic but ornate and highly functional...

It is excruciating talking with you sometimes. Where did I say it has to be nice to listen to? Why are you asking me that? Noisy breakcore is enjoyable but eats up listener stamina more quickly than jungle. See version’s fatigue at Scud. I don’t know man sometimes your responses are so oblique...

Its the second, pessimistic half of the 90s, its German, and its not dance music. Ok great art, perhaps no. Perhaps my old man might say Burroughs did cut-ups to compensate for his incompetence as a real author, or kids sample records because they’re incompetent musicians, and we can disagree...

Never heard this, its sounding good. Is breakcore a pale shadow of jungle ok yeah probably, but there was some rationale, some aesthetic cleavage, regardless of whether we agree with it, in order to warrant a departure. And I’m interested in that initial moment. You won’t catch me driving around...

Empire and Babalon go for a menacing sinister kind of thing but I like the objectively absurd and hilarious stuff, exaggerating the jungle beats and soundclash cliches, its sort of Shlovksyian, defamiliarized. Which means its not very nice to listen to, or suggests only a few listens will...

But this is the part I like! Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not an ideological purist, and I don’t think of politics and aesthetics on the same register. I don’t need to approve of anyone’s thoughts to try and explore and enjoy this music and think about what their vision was, or “champion”...