Metalheadz Hq
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- Joined
- Jan 16, 2009
Plenty of new commix material to come.
The shift over to Techno seems to be thing, Raiden, Doc Scott, Intalex,Techno being released on Metalheadz, who would have thunk it
I probably might get negged but he does sound a bit of a wanker tbh.
I'm not sure he realises how anomalous D&B and Dubstep are with regard to their constant fetishisation of the new and forthcoming - dubplate culture, basically.
In this thread - people without attention spans, lol.
Few thoughts -
As much as I did genuinely like Commix though, I can't say I could ever hear much in the way of real innovation in their actual music; they had a lovely smooth sound all right, and some of their best records are fantastic - I'm thinking about the Subtitles 12", Japanese Electronics, Underwater Scene, Bare Music etc - but for all he's talking about being frustrated with the creative straitjacket of the DnB format I only very rarely heard them make any serious attempt at sounding like they were trying to break out of it. For the first few years they were putting out music on GLO and V and the likes I had them mentally filed away as boring bar-room liquid types who were pretty unlikely to put out anything with any real enduring appeal, and while I was pretty happy when they got better and better as time went on I still never really considered them to be "innovators".
As for getting a dig in about the Headz history sessions etc etc, I'm not sure he realises how anomalous D&B and Dubstep are with regard to their constant fetishisation of the new and forthcoming - dubplate culture, basically. If you go to hear any House DJ worth their salt you're going to hear several hours of records that span a 25 year history and new shit has to be fucking incredible to be considered worth playing. I don't think that having nights where a certain aesthetic that is privileged over the idea of everything having to be new is necessarily a sign that ideas are running out of steam or that there's nothing left to do.
Fair play to him for really making his mark in Techno though - the Shifted / Buried In Sand stuff is all really, really good.