murkage

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was gonna post this on my own LJ but it's a welcome counterpoint to that k-spunk article from yesterday, I think. The other week, I went to a symposium on the hardcore cuntinuum at the University of East London, which is WAY WAY WAY OUT EAST, Cyprus is so far out but I love the DLR so it was all good. I missed k-spunk's talk because I was interviewing Tori Amos (and tbh her academic babble is so much more preferable) but that didn't matter - I was there to support Dan Hancox and Joe Muggs and they were both excellent, v funny and incisive in debunking the cuntinuum. I don't think either has put their speech online but I was particularly pleased that Dan brought up the issue of dancing, which ~for some reason~ is rarely discussed despite the cuntinuum consisting of dance genres. ANYWAY, my friend Melissa Bradshaw (who is the kind of smart, knowledgeable writer who should be linked up all over the place, rather than fauxthorities like k-spunk and SR) was in the audience with me, murked k-spunk at one point and has now written about it, as well as comparing the symposium to the soca aerobics class she left early to go to, and a vg read it is too.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't know SVIIB were playing! I can't go anyway, going to Night Slugs, but hopefully I'll see you at the Roundhouse. The DJ I'll definitely be checking out is Ikonika...

Yeah, it's funny how dance music - esp the minimal techno I've been into - is amazing on headphones, as hangover music, and on the dancefloor, but sounds completely different every time. And how really subtle tweaks can transform a track from one into the other. It makes it hard to be a critic of! Because you're listening to a promo mp3 through your laptop, trying to imagine how it would sound in Fabric...

I remember when I first started to go clubbing, and it was just...such a different way to experience music. SR understood this, I think, but has forgotten it - criticising new music on theory grounds, having never heard it in a club. KP, I doubt has ever understood it.