it has a romance of the exotic and far-flung
oh boy that doesn't sound good
a new generation of UK producers who are more in tune with a virtual community of SoundCloud bedroom producers "than the fusty-seeming legacy of the hardcore continuum"
fair play there, and it makes perfect sense that anything truly fwd would be engaged with Sound/Mixcloud, netlabels, etc
I'm surely not the target audience, but I think that's the only interesting about that piece, or the mix you posted, or "club"
it's interesting (to me, anyway) to see the nuts + bolts mechanics of how the internet has changed how a sound/scene evolves, coalesces, is codified, hyped, etc
the music itself tbh just feels like another boring UK dance music in the long line of them ppl have been selling me/whoever since like 2007
again, I'm not the target audience, and I skimmed through one mix, so what do I know
but we're (at least) 20 years into hip folx taking global (often tho not always global South) sounds and not appropriating them but just making inferior versions
amorphous nothingness like "bass", "club", etc; who actually wants to listen to this instead of like, the real thing