spain to wigan and glasgow? really? wow.
fwiw, it doesn't surprise me in the least that me/prancehall/most dissensians/the observer arts editor/simon reynolds are just finding out about this this year (even if you already posted about it last year, sorry straight!) - it's the bassline problem again: except for occasional bursts of interest like this, no-one in london gives a shit about anything that happens outside london. that sounds horrible but i'm pretty sure it's true.
scousehousetapes.com? i smell a side-project slackk..
Sort of. the kids round that time were much more connected, + many free party ravers were into all that hardcore dnb like evil intent and limewax so the divisions were probably felt more in the older crowds. otherwise we didn't hate bassline before heartbroken, noone had heard of funky in fact,, that was no trainers allowed crowd. Amateur bourgeois philosophers with ph.ds took nuum as an ontology and not an *you know* continuum and that's why it became an old boys club. dubstep was old boys (aside from the producers.) funky was old boys. garage/soulful house, for a long time and continues to be old boys.
A lot of hardcore was trash music but because many old dissensians tried to disown their detroit techno past they couldn't really acknowledge that and ended up talking about photek and moving shadow more than kniteforce records the trip snowball, ibiza, x project, phuture assassins, bizzy b etc etc.
So really what happened looking back was half the purists that blissblogger lamented actually crossed over to his side.
I didn't have this problem. I'm not ashamed of my class position and hence saw no problem in liking acen and xenakis simultaneously. yeah I'm pretty much middle class these days what of it? noone wants to live in council flats as an edgey poverty tourism posture. we all got out as quick as possible. for the left this is an unspeakable crime but most immigrants and most people in general know that immediate socialisation of production is not gonna happen over night. you gotta take what u can. actually we always hated slummers the most, i never ever saw any value in it unlike Matthew, you've got all those opportunities and you squander them for what, a weird statist political ideal that will never materialise?
This sort of lumpen raggamuffin-techno is as much foundational to the nuum.
in fact in his wire articles bliss was way closer when he used the term ragga-techno.