2 mixes for this week

1.


UNTOLD - Fact mix 58

I haven't even heard this yet but it promises to be sick. Untold has been one of my favourite producers for the last few months and now many are starting to agree, including Crookers of all people, who charted Untold's stop-the-dance anthem Anaconda at number 1 on beatport. C-R-A-Z-Y times!

Stereotyp - Uepa (feat.Joyce Muniz) - Man Recordings
Untold - Just for You (Roska remix) - forthcoming Hotflush
Hot City - No More - forthcoming Infrasonics
Untold - Never went away - unreleased
Untold - I can't stop this feeling (Pangaea remix) - forthcoming Hemlock
Untold - No one likes a smartarse - unreleased
Untold - Gonna work out fine - unreleased
Untold - You didn't win the holiday - unreleased
Untold - Stop what you're doing - unreleased
DJ C - Jump Up and Bounce (ft. Ms. Thing) (LV remix) - unreleased
Littlefoot - Sell my soul - unreleased
Mount Kimbie - Esasub - unreleased
TRG - Siberian poker - unreleased
Ramadanman - Bleeper - unreleased
Ramadanman - No swing - unreleased
Joe - Perculate - unreleased
Untold - Flexible - unreleased
Shortstuff & Mickey Pearce - Tripped up - unreleased
LV - Crossfire - unreleased

2.


GRIEVOUS ANGEL - Crazylegs 002 mix

Crazy Legs' booking policy continues to impress me. I'm yet to attend one of their nights but judging by their booking policy and presentation, they're definitely on a wavelength - Bristol's answer to Night Slugs?
Anyway this is the 2nd of their mix series and it comes from longtime badman Grievous Angel. A lot of the GA productions Kode9 has been championing can be heard here, check it out.


0:00 Dem 2: Baby You’re So Sexy – Vocal MixIt
3:50 Dru Hill: Freak Like Me – El B Remix
7:00 Missy Elliott: Work It – Grievous Angel Remix
11:30 Cooly G: Floating
13:30 Uncle Bakongo: Baga
16:10 David Byrne and Brian Eno: The Jezebel Spirit
19:11 Hard House Banton: Sirens
21:05 KenLou: The Bounce
25:16 Riko: Ice Rink – Grievous Angel’s Drum Ritual Remix
29:06 Riko: Ice Rink – Grievous Angel Remix
35:16 Roska: Climate Change
36:55 Cooly G: Dis Boy
41:30 Q Burns’ Abstract Message: Innocent – King Britt Scuba Mix
46:02 Refuge: Frozen – Grievous Angel Remix
49.48 Lady Saw & Cecille: Loser – Grievous Angel Remix
54:40 Grievous Angel Ft. Rubi Dan: Move Down Low – Funky Remix

SUPRA 1 in the mix for Lower End Spasm

The latest episide of the Lower End Spasm podcast comes from Krakow's SUPRA1, new members of our NYC family the Trouble & Bass crew. They recorded this mix live especially for us, seamlessly charting the territory between that str8-to-the-floor "heavy bass" sound and the deeper vibe that Night Slugs and the Spasm have been subtly moving towards this year. In other words a perfect summary of what we mean when we say "gutter house & heavy bass". LETS GO!!!

SUPRA1 in the mix for Lower End Spasm

1. Geeneus feat. Amy Bullman - Saturday
2. Sticky - Jumeirah Riddim
3. Hard House Banton - The Reign
4. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
5. Julio Bashmore - Um Bongo
6. Lil Silva - Burning
7. Zinc - Blunt Edge
8. Drop The Lime - Tabac Theme
9. Blackfinger - UMF (Supra1 Remix)
10. Joker & Ginz - Re-Up
10. Gemmy - BT Tower
11. Joker & Ginz - Purple City
12. Sarantis ft. Warrior Queen - More Than Money (Starkey Remix)
13. Starkey - Knob Twiddler
14. ID - Handbagger (Baobinga rmx)


ps> watch out for Supra1's forthcoming EP on Trouble & Bass recordings.

Joy Orbison

One of my absolute favourite tunes right now is by a producer cheekily called Joy Orbison. The track in question is called "Hyph Mngo" and it's gonna drop in the near future on the mighty Hotflush label.
Joy's sound is prefect for me right now - deep, epic yet banging, morose, drenched in synths, and rhythmically occupying the uncharted territory between dubstep, garage and house that Ben UFO, Oneman, Brackles, myself and others are working hard to explore right now.



Here's a mix Joy Orgison has put together. Keep an eye out for him!

JOY ORBISON - DLDRMS001

Pearson Sound "Indelible" (Aus)
Karizma "Drumz Nightmare" (R2)
Nu-Birth "Anytime" (Locked On)
Tonya Renee "About You" [Karizma Boucha Remix] (Home Recs)
Altered Natives "Rass Out" (Fresh Minute Music)
Joy Orbison "Smother" (DOLDRUMS)
Efdemin "Acid Bells" [Martyn Remix] (Curle)
Shed "Selection One" (Soloaction)
Ultramarine "Hooter" [Carl Craig Remix-Joy Orbison Edit] (Real Soon)
Joy Orbison "Tentative Bidding" (DOLDRUMS)
Martyn "Hear Me" (3024)
Joy Orbison "J. Doe" (DOLDRUMS)
Joy Orbison "Hyph Mngo" (Hotflush)

Telepathe - Devil's Trident video

Telepathe - Devil's Trident from Christopher Chambers on Vimeo.

I discovered Telepathe from Kingdom's remix of Chromes' On It. The first 'new band' I've been into in a very long time. Crazy how their sound palette is so in tune with the king of club music my ears are seeking out right now: 808s / toms / droning sawtooths / a celestial otherness.

NIGHT SLUGS 10

********** ATTENTION ATTENTION **********



It's the second of this year's Night Slugs all-night parties @ Egg room 1, this time a tropical summer special. Our guests: Rinse FM boss and old skool don Geeneus, the best grime DJ in the world Spyro, and our beloved friends Kingdom and Ben UFO. Are we serious? Yes we are.

Make sure to RSVP 'yes' on the Facebook to get on the reduced door fee list:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114959012064


bonus audio:

BLACKBOX - I Don't Know (KINGDOM Remix) (320)

!!TERROR DANJAH live @ Night Slugs 9 ft BADNESS!! (direct link)

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a lot of people have been asking me to post that set, so here you go for all the Terror/grime/Night Slugs fans. Don't sleep on this! You know how we get down... Badness jumps on the mic, Terror plays classics and exclusives and then gets into some jungle at the end

Enjoy and I hope to see you London & surrounding areas ravers on the 19th!

Girl Unit - Chicken Tetrazini remix

United Groove

EDIT!!!!

this single is OUT NOW with artwork by yours truly! click here to check it out on Juno


and here's the b-side

Bok Bok mixtape for LuckyMe

Dancefloor synth digi-psychedelia on this one
"lots of polysynth make me want to get lean and have sex in a room full of
purple smoke..." - Anonymous

BOK BOK - Manara's Golden Fleece mix for LuckyMe


01 - REFUGE - U Best Believe
02 - DONAEO - Love To Happen
03 - MOSCA - Square One
04 - DRE SKULL - I Want You (BOK BOK remix dub)
05 - ALISON HINDS ft MACHEL MONTANO
06 - DJ CLEO - East Rand Funk
07 - R1 RYDERS - Rubberband
08 - DORIAN CONCEPT - Trilingual Dance Sexperience
09 - SHORTSTUFF & MICKEY PEARCE - Tripped Up
10 - ZOMBY - With Lasers
11 - ELECTRIK RED - Drink In My Cup
12 - JOKER & GINZ - Purple City
13 - TERROR DANJAH - Sidechain
14 - BOK BOK - Crew dub
15 - DJ ASSAULT - Vandalism
16 - MR DE - Time Space Scrilla
17 - BASUTBUDET - Take Them Out To Eat (BOK BOK's sundown edit)

If you're wondering what's up with our Manara all b&w except for the gold jacket there, hit http://www.thisisluckyme.com/html/mixes.html. Also check there for the full LuckyMe mix series, its pretty weighty stuff.

ps:

A Buffoon Empiricist Manifesto

Buffoon Empiricism is a response to the terrible perseverance and proliferation of information and music online. Everyone can access everything, all of the time. Every message board post has a download inside. Every riposte has another riposte. Club music has become more of a spectacle than ever in the last five years; regarded, consumed and critiqued from a metaphorical and physical distance.

FWD>> is now being streamed live around the world from Curtain Road.

We admire the futurist beauty of being able to smash great distances with technology, underground music seeping up through the global soil. We admire the fact that you can listen to one of London's most seminal club nights as it happens in your bedroom.

We admire all of this, but we'd prefer to admire it from the dancefloor of Plastic People.

RSI hurts. Dancing heals.

The Ten Commandments of Buffoon Empiricism

1) Thou shalt go to raves.

2) Thou shalt dance.

3) Thou shalt flash thy lighter.

4) Thou shalt give some serious thought to trying socaerobics.

5) Thou shalt invent ridiculous new skanks in funky dances (and in IKEA), if only to annoy the purists (and IKEA). Thou shalt put videos of yourself doing these skanks on the internets, but only if you've first performed them in a rave, or the food hall of a Swedish furniture store.

6) Thou shalt aim for a 35% reduction in the time you spend on internet message boards by 2012.

7) Thou shalt feel free to document the music you hear and the things you see in new and interesting ways. Tweeting from raves is okay.

8) Thou shalt also feel free not to document the music you hear and the things you see. Someone else probably is, in any case.

9) Thou shalt be justifiably proud of the long tradition of buffoonery that precedes you. Don't worry, you don't have to wear the jester's hat.

10) Thou may have other gods besides buffoon empiricism – theoretical gods, rational gods, scientific gods, gods with throats of fire and hair made of twine. Buffoon empiricism is not a jealous or vengeful god.

Dubble Step - riddim surgery

Dubble Step is an automated process / riddim surgery / refix formula / insta-fun engine / miracle of modern science. Dubble Step feeds on monotonous midrange halfstep and excretes raw, monsterous soca-n-bass bangers.

Dubble Step is like waking the dead. Dubble Step will save our dancefloors:

BENGA - 26 Basslines (dubble step edit)


ps. I didn't do it.

artefact of my weekend

busy weekend! Out to Terror Danjah & Egyptrixx (& Badness!) who smashed Night Slugs (audio soon come), Hessle Audio & Jackmaster who smashed Fabric, myself and L-Vis who smashed Leicester in a 3 hour marathon, and Kode9 who smashed FWD in an unprecedented start-to-finish marathon of epic scope.

So much music, so many vibes. Here's a little artefact, the audio from my Sub FM show from Saturday gone:



BOK BOK - Night Slugs show, Sub FM 16 May 2009

01 - UNTOLD - Just For You (ROSKA remix)
02 - DJ GREGORY - Don't Panic
03 - DONAEO - Love To Happen
04 - KODE9 - Black Sun
05 - ALISON HINDS Ft MACHEL MONTANO - Roll It Gal (funky mix)
06 - GRIEVOUS ANGEL - Icering Drum Ritual
07 - FOOTSTEPS - Worker
08 - CRAZY COUSINZ - Bounce ft AIDONIA
09 - ALTERED NATIVES - Bullet Blade Knuckle Slap
10 - COOLY G - Narst
11 - ZOMBY - Blueberry Cheese
12 - DIGITAL DUBSTAR - The Hornz
13 - APPLE - Mr Bean VIP
14 - SHORTSTUFF & MICKEY PEARCE - Tripped Up
15 - UNTOLD vs TEMPA T - Next Anaconda (ONEMAN blend)
16 - MOSCA - Square One
17 - SECRET AGENT GEL - Crew (BOK BOK remix dub)
18 - JOKER & GINZ - Purple City
19 - XI - Dreaming Void
20 - S CHU - Tribal Widow
21 - BOK BOK - I Want You dub
22 - R1 RYDERS - Rubberban
23 - ZOMBY - With Lasers
24 - SHORTSTUFF - Stuff
25 - SHYSTIE - Pull It (ILL BLU remix)
26 - XI - Genesis
27 - TRG - New In Town (dubblestep remix)
28 - MARIO - Bloodclart Bass
29 - NUMAN - Your Eyes ft PhePhe
30 - WICKEDA - A Nie Dvamata S Bobi Piem Kafe (RAMADANMAN remix)
31 - MACABRE UNIT - Lift Off
32 - L-VIS 1990 - Compas
33 - MARTIN KEMP - No Charisma
34 - JOE - Rut

NIGHT SLUGS 9 this thursday

To say I'm pretty excited about this one. Terror Danjah takes a rare step out of the studio and into the DJ booth, and where better than Night Slugs @ East Village with 20k of sound to properly showcase his cyborg grime bangers. Terror's one of my alltime favourite producers, so to have him spin at my night is a real honour. Please come down and show some love for this rare DJ set.

To give you a flava of what's gonna happen, here's an upfront mix Terror Danjah has recorded for us via FACT Magazine. No tracklist, just uniquely twisted grime riddims, a few vocals, a few oldies, a lot of never-heard-before exclusives and a grime-gone-funky segment at the end. Dance is gonna get blazed!

TERROR DANJAH - FACT mix 47




Our other guest - Toronto's Egyptrixx - is another strong favourite in this camp. We've been pushing his tracks for a few years now and in that time have heard him work diverse styles like ghetto house and bassline, but always with his own unique wonky (small 'w'), polysynth-saturated twist. A favourite of the Palms Out crew, he's responsible for such bangers as 'Use Magic To Kill Death', the Idiot House-forthcoming 'Just Say Really' and 'Freaks', his collaboration with the mighty DJ Slugo.

EGYPTRIXX - European Tour promo mixtape

This thursday @ East Village, Shoreditch. Free before 11. You know what to do.

tracklist to Terror's mix:

1)"Just Realise" Terror Danjah feat Fumin-Hardrive vol2
2)"Royal Flush" D.O.K-Dokument Chapter 1
3)"Red Alert" Terror Danjah-Zip Files Vol2
4)"Creepy Crawler" Terror Danjah-Indusry Standard part1-Aftershock
5)"Ride 4 Me" Terror Danjah feat Dot Rotten & Youf-Hardrive Vol2
6)"Buzz Light Year" DaVinChe-Paperchase
7)"Find OUt" Terror Danjah feat Badness-Hardrive Vol2
8)"Nissi" T.N.T
9)"Kill All Of Dem" Scratcha D.V.A
10)"Jam Hot" Geenus
11)"Commando" Ganja Man
12)"Frontline" (Creepy Crawler Remix) Big-E-D-Pay Back EP-Aftershock
13)"Trojan" Terror Danjah-Zip Files Vol1
14)"Untitled" Treble Clef-Kamakzie
15)"Morph" Terror Danjah-Zip Files vol1
16)"Untitled" P-Jam-Dice Recordings/Beat Camp
17)"Untitled" Big-E-D Zip Files Vol2
18)"Suck Out" Loudmouth Melvin-Zip Files Vol1
19)"Code Morse" Terror Danjah & D.O.K (unreleased)
20)"Warning" D.O.K (D.O.K funky 2009 remix)
21)"Party hard" Donaeo
22)"Go Hard" Lethal B feat Donaeo
23)"Migraine Skank" Gracious 'Napa Man'K
24)"Came In The Game" Lil Silva feat Ghetts
25)"Tribal Skank" Fr3e
26)"More Girls" Boy Better Know
27)"Sunglasses" UNdisputed
28)"Blackberry Hype" Lil Silva feat Maxwell D (Terror Danjah Special)

mixtape digest

yet more long-playing blended audio for your consumption !!!!


ONEMAN ON RINSE !!!!featuring some fresh stuff from the fam, including two of my new bits - LESSS GOOOOOO!!

next:
BEN UFO - HESSLE AUDIO PROMO for Fabric.
Without gushing too much, I can safely say this is the best mix I've heard in something like 6 months. Surprising, effortless cross-bpm style-splicing all permeated by the unique Hessle vibe - warmth, subtlety and pressure. Absolutely killer - whatever you do don't sleep on this one.
Incidentally this is a promo for Hessle's takeover of Room 3 @ Fabric on the 15th May - that's the night after Night Slugs!!!

1. Greena - Maracay (Forthcoming Applepips)
2. Omar S - Busaru Beats (Sound Signature)
3. Aphrodisiax - Unfinished Business (Jus House)
4. Karizma - 33rd Street Anthem (Defected)
5. Unknown - Unknown (Unreleased)
6. Altered Natives - Rass Out (Fresh Minute)
7. Pearson Sound - Wad (Unreleased)
8. Diplo & Laidback Luke - Hey! (L-Vis 1990 remix) (Forthcoming Dim Mak)
9. Brackles and Shortstuff - Sutorito Faita (Forthcoming Planet Mu)
10. Deep Cover Inc. - Deepin' Side [NYC dub mix] (FX)
11. Ramadanman - No Swing (Unreleased)
12. STP - The Fall [T++ remix] (Subsolo)
13. Peverelist - Teachings (Unreleased)
14. Shortstuff and Mickey Pearce - Tripped Up (Unreleased)
15. Untold - I Can't Stop This Feeling [Pangaea remix] (Unreleased)
16. Bump and Flex - Promises [Hardstep dub] (Urban Heat)
17. Untold vs. Tempz - Nextaconda (Unreleased)
18. Youngstar - Bongcat Riddem (White)
19. James Blake - Air and Lack Thereof (Unreleased)
20. Untold - Flexible (Unreleased)
21. Ikonika - Unknown (Unreleased)
22. Mala - Hunter (DMZ)
23. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Unreleased)


finally Unknown Soulja aka John from the Bruk camp jumps in the mix to promote the upcoming 2nd installment of his night U Dun Kno. We had fun DJing at the first one and the aforementioned badderman selector BEN UFO is gonna be appearing at their next one alongside Roska and others. This is a LES-aproved rave, get yrselves down there!

UKNOWN SOULJA - BULLET BULLET BULLET mix

Rogue State – Hype Ting
Buraka Som Sistema – Work It
Gully Gang – Music Money
Baobinga – Ghetto State of Jacking (TRG remix)
Martyn – Yet
D1 – Ongie Bongie
Piddy Py – Prickly Rose
Wiley – Gangsters
Guido – Orchestral Lab
Witty Boy – Murder Charge
Tempa T – Next Hype (Mosca’s Baltimore remix)*Unreleased Dubplate*
Tempa T – Next Hype (Brackles Vocal mix) Forthcoming on No Hats No Hoods
Joker – Digi Design
Lewi and Bigga – Chiney Chin riddim
Kingdom – Mind Reader (ft Shyvonne) *Unreleased Dubplate*
Demarco – She Cant Wait
Uncle Bakongo – Makonde
Secret Agent Gel – Crew ft Coppa Kid (Bok Bok remix) *Unreleased Dubplate*
Mosca – Square One *Unreleased Dubplate*
Mavado – Gangsta Nuh Play
Erup – Click Mi Fingers
Demarco – Spend ‘Pon Dem
Bling Dawg – Nah Violate
Baby Cham – Nah Fraid a Dem
Rod Lee – Who Sent Chew Nigga?
Crazy Cousinz – Inflation
Funky Underground – Dub Boy
Busy Signal – Step Out (Mosca’s Step on the Frontline Refix) *Unreleased Dubplate*
Lil Silva – Flex
Rubi Dan – Big Boi Spitta
Madera Limpia – La Lenta (Schlactofbronx remix)
Crazy Cousinz – Bongo Jam (L-Vis and Bok Bok’s Bongo Ram remix)
DJ Tameil - Money
Bitch Ass Darius - Ride
La Roux – Going in 4 the Kill (L-Vis 1990’s Hyberbass remix)
Mavado and Busy Signal – Badman Place (Douster Remix)

L-Vis 1990 upfrontness

Night Slugs own L-Vis 1990 has just joined our friends the Curb Crawlers blog, and he's just made quite the entrance. This mix is too too large! Tracklist:

Tracklist:
1. Mario – Bloodclart Bass
2. Fingerprints – Test press
3. Hard House Banton – Reign
4. Uncle Bakongo – Bobo
5. N.B Funky – Riddim Box
6. Lighter – Skanker
7. Lil Silva – Funky Pulse
8. Hard House Banton – Sirens
9. R1 Ryders – Rubberband
10. Lil Silva – Different
11. L-Vis 1990 – Run
12. Doc Daneeka – Deadly Rhythm

Head over to Curb Crawlers to download

New dialogues: regeneration, participant-observers, JA funky, and Paul Gilroy

So I was asked to deliver a talk at last Wednesday's (gulp!) four-hour discussion about the hardcore continuum at the University of East London. Thanks to K-Punk, Kode9, Kodwo Eshun, Joe Muggs, Alex Williams, Jeremy Gilbert, Blackdown, and Lisa Blanning for their contributions, and to Bok Bok, Melissa Bradshaw, and everyone else who made their points from the floor. I'm not going to dwell on the event at length, especially when Blackdown has already written about what was my own epiphany on the day: that the changes to the Olympic site already look absolutely astonishing.


[photo: Andy Wilkes]

Entirely new structures are emerging from the sprawling east London rubble, and right now the artists' impressions, the imagined totems to gleaming regeneration, are still at that awkward, scrappy, cement-and-hard-hats stage. You've got to tear down the old edifices before you can build them anew, though.

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Here is a recent Simon Reynolds article for The Wire, which establishes the journalistic processes he used in the 1990s, the passionate involvement and close attention that begat the hardcore continuum:

"Around the time of 2-step and “Adult Hardcore” [i.e. 1999], I also noticed a continuity in my approach: I realised that I’d been operating a little like an ethnomusicologist, someone who gets involved in the tribe and joins in the rituals, and in the process has their objectivity compromised more than a little. I’ve been what anthropologists call a ‘participant-observer’. A critic-fanatic."


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And here is a fascinating example of a contemporary participant-observer, Gabriel Heatwave, doing exactly what Reynolds describes:

JA Bashment meets UK funky

These burgeoning connections went unmentioned on Wednesday, and indeed, tellingly, few people talked about funky at all. I made sure to refer to funky's utterly compulsive danceability (I was the first person to mention dancing, only two hours into a seminar on dance music, but that's my buffoon empiricism for you) and the anti-recession perma-summer of Crazy Cousinz' aesthetic (I'll bust your windows... OPEN), but most of the 2009 focus was on w*nky.

In response to Gabriel's post, I'd add that Paul Gilroy was kind enough to write to me in a dialogue ahead of my continuum talk, as I attempted to find out what was really meant by 'rudeness' in music in 2009. Race and the changing nature of black Britain was another sadly ignored aspect of this debate on Wednesday at UeL. Here are a few of Gilroy's thoughts:

"We are moving towards an African majority which is diverse both in its cultural habits and in its relationship to colonial and postcolonial governance so the shift away from Caribbean dominance needs to be placed in that setting. Most of the grime folks are African kids, either the children of migrants or migrants themselves. It's not clear what Africa might mean to them. Not all are Muslim. They are open to a US sourced version of black style and culture which is also contentious and repellent. Their ambivalence towards it is the key I'd guess. The Ethiopianist framing of a post-slave history means next to nothing to them, even as a generic signifier of human suffering and powerlessness. I suppose that Pokes' ironic celebration and affirmation of the DJ lineage is a residual trace of that past. He is not Wiley, "Bashy" or African Boy."

"I am an agnostic when it comes to the "rudeness" comparison. I suppose my basic difficulty is that the misnamed "funky" and its adjacent styles are a problem precisely because they aren't remotely interested in bringing the funk. That has always been a dividing line for me. I haven't gone deeply into soca/grime but "funky" often sounds just like soca to me and has some of the same small island rapture that made that unlistenable."

It's unnecessarily reductive for us to posit the idea of Africa (e.g. 'Donaeo's 'African Warrior', and the potential but difficult-to-prove influence of Afro-house percussion) against the Carribean, in some kind of bizarre fight for the lion's share of influence over funky, but these are issues worth thinking about. I'm fascinated by Gabe's post, by the idea that Africa is here but we're not sure what it means, and this sense that funky echoes 'a small island rapture'. One thing that's undoubted, is the deejay lineage is certainly there in funky, and hosting is a sort of stop-gap compromise on the part of MCs, a promise to purists that they are not grime MCs, and they won't come over and ru[i]n this ting. Check out what Stamina (very self-deprecatingly) says about his 'Party Hard or Go Home' vocal of Lil' Silva:

"Dont get it twisted im not an MC or artist im simply the party host with most... Big up all the artists making the dancing tunes, lets keep doing it like the Jamaican artists do lol"

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I'm not going to post the whole 2,000 word transcript of my hardcore continuum talk, not yet anyway, but I will post the final sentence:

"UK club music continues to move forward – and I feel very sorry for the section of my profession that is incapable of doing the same."