Future Thursday

July 11, 2019 — Leave a comment

Not sure why this wasn’t the first tune on Future Thursday. It’s over 30 years old but it’s the sound of the future.

• Rhythim Is Rhythim (Derrick May) – Strings Of Life

“When the piano dropped, it made you cry, it made you laugh; all these emotions came out when you heard that and you just went: ‘Wow, I’m here’.” — Carl Cox

Random Wednesday

July 10, 2019 — Leave a comment

A few years ago, Skream got as big as you can get in music without being a superstar. He had two choices then:

– go in all the way and cash in (by now he would be doing collaborations with Kesha, Katy Perry, and that lot).

– stay true to the heritage and spirit of what all this was trying to do in the first place.

He chose the second: He did techno, house, etc (the UK knows) and hasn’t released much stuff.

“…it’s the last dubstep show I’ll play until further notice. Dubstep is just a name now. It doesn’t have a meaning any more and the movement is over. It’s like the end of a relationship but it’s ended on a high. I’ve done dubstep since I was 14 but there’s no way I’m going to be dictated to. I stopped because I’m not inspired by it any more.”

• Skream — BIS Radio Show #977

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Too Good Monday

July 1, 2019 — Leave a comment

• Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro

I can probably think of about 50 good bands with great musicians (they play tight, have a couple good songs) and 20 great bands that are special and influential (had an original sound and definitely changed how things were done). But, for the life of me, I don’t think I could come up with more than about five truly meaningful bands; bands that have something where the total is magically larger than the sum of its parts. This is one of them.
“Is [Shaun Ryder] our W.B. Yeats, is this our T.S. Eliot? You bet your fucking life it is.” — Tony Wilson