The Death of Hip-Hop

Have to agree with him on this one. Except Lil Wayne and the Bay Area 'Hyphy' movement are overlooked as stars on a sinking ship. New people on the seen i.e. Gucci Mane and the New Boyz are all style and no substance.

The Quote of the??? noughties

No genre went gently into that good night: they all clung on, cluttering up the musical landscape. This not only made it harder for new things to emerge, it's meant that we've all come to forget that, in fact, totally new things have emerged in the past. There was, for instance, a time when hip-hop didn't exist.

HEAR HEAR!

Jam City

Believe the hype. He seems to hit all the spots, lush lush synths with swinging rhythms.

Check his Myspace and amazing mix for Fact magazine

This man is the best thing to happen to dubstep this year. Hes fusing UK funky, techno and even electro into danceable forward thinking madness. Check his mix and interview with Fact Magazine Here

14 Tracks

If you don't know get to know.

This website has introduced me to a lot of new music. 14 downloadable tracks every week focusing on different music from classical indian Raga to artist specific work.

Check out "Deep into Surgeon", "For Bergenhien Massive" and 14 tracks "in search of wonky" and my favorite "Larry Lavan to the Warehouse".

Huge

www.14tracks.com

Heres a taste of there selections

“14 tracks in search of Wonky: Part Two”

Three months on from our first giddy adventure into demented synth-lines, squashed beats and malfunctioning laser beams and we're back for a second helping of the good stuff, spoiled for choice by a deadly array of Wonky wares filling our airwaves in 2009. For this new selection Joker and Zomby are back with a track each lifted from two colossal releases for Hyperdub, three cuts feature from excellent Parisian label Musique Large, while added pressure comes from the mighty Timeblind, Dorian Concept and Aardvarck. It's hard to keep up with this stuff - it's moving at such an exhilarating pace that just in the last couple of weeks things have splintered off again into new, demented hybrids - but vintage showings from Push Button Objects and Dabrye connect the dots a little for those of you who like to trace the evolution of these things. Enjoy the ride...

Turbo Lazer Bass Crunk

Check this mix out by Lunice. I found alot of this stuff too disjointed and jarring but this mix smacks it. His productions have the right mix of squelchy synth lines, low bass lines and warped vocals. Perfectly balanced.

Lunice Interview. Mix at bottom

Tunes I like

Pangea-Bear Witness 

Hudson Mowhawke- Polkadot Blues

Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion Remix)

Zomby- gloopy

Burial-Stairwell (unrealesed)

Women-Black Rice

Women-Shaking Hand

Ketamine and 'Wonky"

FEELING WONKY. IS IT KETAMINS TIME TO DRIVE CLUB CULTURE??

An interesting article on Ketamine and its place in an off-shoot of the dubstep scene 'wonky'

Check the tracks linked to the article. Zomby-Aquafresh and Hudson Mowhawke-polkadot blues, absolute killers.

I can understand how ketamine and its disassociating effects may heighten the effects of the unsequencised 'wonky' beats but the articles statement that the drug is well suited to the lack of rythmic progression in the minimal techno of Ricardo Villalobos is bollox. His music is all about the pulsing, driven rhythm (maybe he just listens to the first ten minutes of his productions ha). 

The article "Feeling Wonky"