Recent content by gek-opel

Hi Jim, I am in London actually-- do you have a link or something? Alex.

Dunno if more extreme parties are a good idea- a start might be to have clearly demarcated mainstream left and right wing parties, perhaps, rather than an undifferentiated grey political goo for all three major parties marked by incessant triangulation and swing-seat targeting (and the...

I think sense-memory and emotional memory are slightly different matters. I can imagine green with ease, or striated, or the smell of bacon, or the taste of paprika, or entire symphonies. But when I imagine, say "joy" (and beyond that generality towards a precise variant or shade of it, a very...

Interesting question-- I suppose because the purely sensory pleasures/emotions associated with a positive experience/period of time past are inaccessible, I am aware they existed, but the reality of them as a lived experience of pleasure, joy, excitement, contentment or whatever remains out of...

Its part of the same motion, not to say the past was just as bad, but that the past is relevant only as a series of determinations which bring about opportunity within the present instance, or worse as an oppressive inert mass to be resisted via practical activity. The past is not to be...

How does this not slide into nostalgia--> then into maudlin reflection- in comparison to now---> into misery? Good past memories can be like a poison, can be absolutely corrosive- Swears seems a pretty good example of this, poor chap. I'd rather posit even the good times of the past as...

St Peters College...

*shudders* If that's your golden age I pity the fool...

I don't understand nostalgia- for me there are no golden memories to hide back inside. No glorious childhood, or teenage years in the light of which the adult world is some shrinking penumbra of pain and misery. Its been very much of one mode really. Though it gets a little easier the more...

Im not getting into the rhythmical aspect as my opinion on that (ie: early Grime=cubistic anti-funk genius and the last word in rhythmical innovation in pop to date) is known (hopefully). Just in textural/timbral terms... I always personally found with soft-studios the non-realist plasticky...

On the master narratives thing- how far does the "hardcore contiuum" thesis come to being a dance music "rockism"?

And anyway the current state of play in post-garage music in the UK kind of works against the idea of a continuum per se whatsoever--- the "grand narrative" of hardcore as such has collapsed into a polyvocal mass of sub-plots, garage now more like a multiple headed hydra... None of them exactly...

Music journalists love using Drugs as metaphor/guiding principle whenever they can (even in rock music). It functions as a way for them to talk about sonic alterations without any proper knowledge of how the music itself is constructed- so drugs function as a shorthand ("this is very coked out"...

Its possible to sound grainy using softsynths... but the temptation is not to (or rather, the decision). Whereas with old Jungle records there was a certain analogue Fatness to the sound which is absent from current Grime and Bassline. But actually, given that the 90s sonic is so utterly played...

Yeah but I think what Viktorvaughn was trying to say was that 'nuum music pre-proto-grime had a certain thickness to the sounds- even where they weren't acoustic samples there was a certain grain to them. Whereas in Grime and Bassline everything has a kind of cheapo-nasty dayglo neon plasticness...