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clom

This is a great piece Paul. A lot to think about. I can particularly identify with giggling pisstaking from the young f'las snickering at the old head lovingly playing entire versions of tracks rather than the looping 16 bars they need to build tension before the next loop gets dropped over and built and built into a huge, max-levelled behemoth where you're not even sure what you're listening to any more but it doesn't matter cause it slays the floor.

I went to see a friend of mine play at an Edinburgh club recently and the place was mobbed with young folk giving it socks to some really good hypey beats. The new-birthed "Aquacrunk" sound that's been doing the rounds the last few years here in Scotland thanks to the giddy Numbers crew was getting nailed- it was fun, exciting, colourful but after about 20 minutes I was knackered, and a bit frustrated. Like a 4 year old that has been at the circus for a little bit too long and he's overtired and it's noisy and he's not sure where his mam is. The bottom lip was starting to quiver and I craved a little sit down. The opening piano riff to Strings of Life emerged from the giddy neon rush of beats and sirens and klaxons (the old rave kind- these Scottish new kids know their own history and don't need it repackaged to them inna safe majorindie style) and I thought everything was going to be ok. But the track was never allowed to break, another half dozen snippets from other tracks piled in the endless channels on the mixing software and less than 2 minutes later we were in another place entirely.

It made me feel like Rip Van Winkle awoken from his slumbers to an exhiliarating but unfathomable carnival of noise and light and youth. This isn't a criticism but it's miles from what I like to do myself. I'm an enthusiastic record buyer, a lover of the vinyl sound, the crackle and heft of a well made pressing, a lot of the tunes sounded tinny, thin and jarring, not an altogether bad thing when you're playing BMore but I like a bit of depth, space and air to my tunes. This requires less frenetic mixing, a chance to bathe in the pure texture of the dubbier, spacier stuff.

This is a long way of saying I felt old. And that there's nothing wrong with this frenetic charge to the future. When I was a young f'la myself I had no truck with the early days of house or the deeper days of disco- it was a headlong rush to a shiny techno future. But as I aged, i filled in blanks, I learned from the old lads "watching things go round" until I became one myself.

Um, anyway, great piece.

paul tarpey

Spot on clom.
I really think all this should be addressed. There are gate keepers in all this who have experianced the mid 90s bigbeatisms and gleefully dump that attitude ( a barrage of peaks) on the scene as a club experiance 'justice-ificed' as a hypercapatilist continium of that era. Thats just one observation. Strings of life dosent make sense as a snipitt either but a historical slant on that argument round these parts normally gets me the ' you dont really get it do you' wince. I belive that there is a conspiricy to eliminate space (not breakdowns) in club enviorments ... dont make em think make em consume...etc
These are intresting times though!

clom

thing is, it did make sense to the young f'las. and it can do. the numbers and ballers social club crew in glasgow know their history, they're just building on a legacy they've grown up with.

the tongue in cheek term "aquacrunk" was a reference to Rustie & co's love of Drexcyia as well as of Bmore/Bounce and DJ Funk.

That's not quite the same as the all peak, no break merchants you're talking about, but it still makes me feel super old!

You should chat to Mike Slott about the Glasgow crew, I think he's been doing stuff with Hudson Mohawke and that lot. They're going places (they were even featured in the Guardian Music blog last week! Be the hokey!) and they're the REAL DEAL!

Limerick is a funny town, there has never really been that much space for slightly off kilter things to grow, it's more about the craic and getting a crowd in. Which isn't necessarily a criticism but it would be nice if there were more spaces for oddballs to develop. (I am talking historically here)

I'm going to get a batin' now when I go back for Christmas!

Hopefully Code's new night will still be running and will put on a New Years special!

peter

have mike slott coming over to mickeys in november clom so paul will have a chance to have a chat with him then...

clom

i saw that.
colour me jeliss.

Goldy

EH PAUL.
HOPE THE WEATHER TREATING YOU GOOD.
THANKS ON THE PIECE.....LOOKING INTO THE SPOKEN WORD SIDE OF THINGS:-)
AFTER DINNER DJING SCENE FEATURING SOUND CLASH'S RITCHIE HAVENS,NITE OF THE LIVING BASEHEADS IN A GLITCH,BASS,ELECTRO,TECH-JUMP,ROLLERS,BOP HOP,MASHED POTATOES REMIX OF DA REMIX OF THE LTD EDITION ONE OFF DUBPLATE (THIS NEW GROUND BREAKING WORLD WIDE SCENE STARTED YESTERDAY IN ATHLONE....(G.B.E.T.J.R.B.H.M.P.R.R.R FOR SHORT)
RECORD SHOPS STARTED MAKING DIVIDERS FOR IT THIS MORNING ITS REPLACING LAST WEEKS GRIME-TECH.
GREAT THING IS THERE IS NO INTROS,OUTROS OR BREAKDOWNS JUST PURE LOOPS OF EVERY RECORD EVER MADE AND TO BE MADE...EVERY TRACK IS 12 MILL-SECS LONG.....AND THE NIGHTS ARE ONE HOUR LONG SO PEOPLE CAN GET HOME EARLY AND WATCH THEIR DOWNLOAD OF THE NEW FAMILY GUY AND YOUTUBE FORWARDS....PLUS A COUPLE OF HOURS CHECKING THE 12,000 REMIXES THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED DURING THE DAY........
"SAME AS IT EVER WAS........SAME AS IT EVER WAS...."

SHAMLESS PLUG FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN GOLDY'S NUGGETS TRY THIS ONE.

TRACKLISTING.

1. LEXICON “VOODOO” INST
2. CUTTY RANKS “HIT MAN”
3. RED FOX “PRESSURE DEM”
4. FUNK MOB “RAVERS SUCK OUR SOUND”
5. JUSTIN WARFIELD “BUG POWDER DUST” (CHEMICAL BROTHERS REMIX)
6. SLAYER “AT DAWN THEY SLEEP”
7. METHOD MAN “RELEASE YO DELF” (PRODIGY MIX)
8. DADDY LIVINGSTON “RUDY A MESSAGE”
9. VIKTOR VAUGHN “RAEDAWN”
10. MARDEN HILL “COME ON”
11. FANTOMAS “BOOK 1 – PAGE 3”
12. LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL “SPONTANEOUS (13 MC’S DEEP)”
13. DIGIABLE PLANETS “WHERE I’M FROM” REMIX
14. DEL THA FUNKY “MISADOBALINA” REMIX
15. JILTED JOHN “JILTED JOHN”
16. REDMAN “RED MEETS REGGIE”
17. NEXTMEN “PIECE OF THE PIE” INST
18. RUTS DC “WHATEVER WE DO”
19. BRIAN ENO “AN ENDING (ASCENT)
20. BEYOUND THERE “ON WAX”
21. OLDE ENGLISH “WILDSTYLE (DJ KRUSH HANDSHAKE REMIX)
22. RAGGA TWINS “RAGGA TRIP”
23. J.V.C FORCE “NU SKOOL”
24. NOMEANSNO “ITS CATCHING UP”
25. CHRIS ROCK “O.J. & O’JAYS”
26. THIS MORTAL COIL “DREAMS MADE FLESH”
27. BULGARIAN VOCAL CHOIR “GHEL MOMA”
28. WILLAIM SHATNER “LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS”
29. PRINCE “BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER”
30. DANNY SABER “INDIAN SUMMER”
31. BUDDY RICH “SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME”
32. SOUND DIMENSION “GRANNY SCRATCH SCRATCH”
33. L.L COOL J “(NFA) NO FRONTIN ALLOWED”
34. CASH MONEY “UGLY PEOPLE BE QUIET” REMIX
35. SOFT CELL “SAY HELLO WAVE GOODBYE”
36. BARRY WHITE “ITS ECTACY WHEN YOU LAY DOWN NEXT TO ME”
37. JOCELYN BROWN “SOMEBODY ELSES GUY”
38. BOOTMAN “BOOTMAN: TO THE HIP” (TEE’S FREEZE MIX)
39. LORD FINESSE “THE REMATCH”
40. BASS BOYS “LET THE BASS GO”
41. HERBIE HANCOCK “RAINDANCE”
42. ENNIO MORRICONE “ELEGY FOR A DEAD CHERRY”
43. TOM WAITS “EARTH DIED SCREAMING”
44. RON GRAINER “DOCTOR WHO THEME”


ONE-NESS

GOLDY

Goldy

SORRY I AM STUPID THE LINK.

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ONE-NESS

GOLDY

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