"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
E-ternal
who knew there was a video
the classic 5, them
but
forgot about this late beaut
^^^^^^^^^^
bonus bits''
drum and bass - the terminus
and the re-terminus - last ever remix
i think i prefer the un-remastered version of the original 'shadow boxing' (20 years ago right) - it's murkier and more malevolent
and not hugely impressed with the remix although have liked stuff by Om Unit
the 97 remix was severe i seem to recall
"shadow boxing", "squadron" and "metropolis" - drum & bass was done, after that.
that trilogy = the final testament.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
flipside to "Shadow Boxing", quite dank 'n' brutal .... butchers-block stomp-trudge enlivened with bursts of rinse-mash
Monday, May 30, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
the eternal return of illegal raves / "stacking"
broadcast by Vice on the anniversary of Castlemorton - that magic number 23 beloved of Spiral Tribe - here's a doc on the resurgence of Britain's illegal raves
Karl Kraft, who alerted me to this doc, says he doesn't think there's really been a renaissance - that the illegal-rave scene have been bubbling away in a more or less steady state since the late Nineties, with some areas being particular strongholds - including East Anglia, where he used to live, which for a good while in the 2000s had the fiercest and most full-on illegal-rave scene in the country.
He tells me of a thing called "stacking" - a sort of dancing scrum - " this bouncy group dance which is like a Ketamine thing I think, because you're all leaning in on each other, propping each other up"
KK also tells me about the time a rave mob besieged a police station in Great Yarmouth in protest against the arrest of individuals involved in staging a rave
Karl Kraft, who alerted me to this doc, says he doesn't think there's really been a renaissance - that the illegal-rave scene have been bubbling away in a more or less steady state since the late Nineties, with some areas being particular strongholds - including East Anglia, where he used to live, which for a good while in the 2000s had the fiercest and most full-on illegal-rave scene in the country.
He tells me of a thing called "stacking" - a sort of dancing scrum - " this bouncy group dance which is like a Ketamine thing I think, because you're all leaning in on each other, propping each other up"
KK also tells me about the time a rave mob besieged a police station in Great Yarmouth in protest against the arrest of individuals involved in staging a rave
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
hardvapour, or "feel-bad rave music on shitty drugs"
"Inside ‘hardvapour’, the internet’s latest microgenre - Like vaporwave, seapunk, and witch house before it, hardvapour is a tongue-in-cheek microgenre that’s growing into something much bigger" - Dazed article by Mike Broomfield
"the micro-microgenre that’s being described as “fucking straight-up stupid”, “angry feel-bad rave music on shitty drugs”"
wosX : “It’s a complete antithesis to what vaporwave originally set out to be: fast music, non-sampled work, darker themes, anti-nostalgia, grim aesthetics, Slavic cultural influences in response to the majorly Asian culture within vaporwave.”
"The hoover-thump of gabber never sounded so melancholic as it does on “Bloodline”.... a mournful rave on the post-apocalyptic shores of the Black Sea."
"The understated Balkan influence here is poignantly dystopic, as accordions wheeze alone among the street sounds of a ruined future city."
Slavic and Balkan influences? Gabber and industrial-EBM-darkwave and turbofolk flavas?