What is the hardcore continuum to you?

UK Bass is two things isn't it, now.
All this stuff and then the big bassline garage stuff like TQD/Holy Goof/Chris Lorenzo got the name as well.


Not an endorsement

Techno in Brum. There's nothing like a proper club scene like there used to be though, so you have to play it in your bedroom or in your car.

Hardcore is just a relic.

I'm not sure about other areas of the country.

I've watched some videos in Belgium and this isn't to say the music is any good, but watch some of the Paul Kalkbrenner videos playing there and it's full of ravers I'd imagine not too dissimilar from early 90s Belgian stuff.

This is like UK rave culture before it was born: DJs mixing dance music continuously and MCs spitting bars, hosting and hyping. Would be interesting to hear modern hiphop shows played like this (like grime).

[more yapping] dj screw belongs more comfortably on the continuum than anyone else in hip hop since its birth. the "hard core" of music is improvisation

Totally agree on Djrum's output. He took it somewhere beyond anything else. He was on fire up to the 2nd LP and including Hard To Say/Tournesol (how prescient was that release considering how bpm's (house and techno) skyrocketed in the years after its release?). Saw him dj in Dublin last autumn. On a massive plus he played loads of ragga jungle but...the overall impression was that he was maybe a little too self-conscious as a dj? / seeing him dj your impressions of the night were slightly dwarfed by how much you love his musicality as a producer-musician? I was yunted but managed to articulate this to others and they were in the same boat. Great to see him and pay respect. I've checked for a new release from him continually over the last years.