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this was a good read, this deep tech sound wasn& #39;t my bag at all and still isn& #39;t but I remember being disgusted at all that anti-shuffle shit, as if london doesn& #39;t have a history of club dancers at soul/funk nights. https://twitter.com/vonpiffen/status/1314153841726717952">https://twitter.com/vonpiffen...
on a strictly personal level by the time the funky scene came around I did start to feel a bit left behind by the evolution of the continuum, or should I say I was still big into posthuman technoid sounds but I& #39;m stubborn enough to stick to my guns
so i didn& #39;t really go to these raves even though it is absolutely the type of crowd i grew up with in N. London. So I did feel some sense of frustration (still do to an extent) but the way a lot of middle class anglos dissed this stuff
whilst also dancing to what i saw as watered down tech house, it was all a bit galling. This wasn& #39;t grime or dubstep heads saying & #39;just house innit& #39;, it was literally double-barelled twats feeling threatened. So in that sense i carved out a kind of rip it up
and start again roadmap, and this meant i got into parmegiani, xenakis, merzbow, Mimaroglu, smegma and shit like that. It was real disenchantment hours with dance music industry as a whole.
I& #39;m not sure if things have really improved in the collective mindset of dance music clubbers/journalists. There& #39;s a lot of good conversations being had but it does feel like the black london working class (and even white/brown) are basically completely culturally immiserated.
another thing i should say just to make sure any misunderstandings are cleared up, i was pretty angry at the time, still am, so the very distorted noise/hard/punk techno appealed to me in that sense. as a kind of release, without obviously kicking islamophobes heads in lol.
of course my skepticism to this sound at time could 100% apply 2the sounds i got into, which, be real, were also done in the 90s. in slightly different ways granted. I don& #39;t know what this says about me, or about raciological marketed coding, but i& #39;ll put it out there anyway
I think also when people were getting into like goldie and source direct etc i was already like well into kemet crew, remarc, dev pandya (paradox) all the hardcore choppage stuff so i gravitated to a scene which would give me a similar sort of rush over a big pa.
there weren& #39;t many jungle raves them times in the early 2010s, minimal drum and bass but not really jungle. things got better around 2015-16. Of course distant planet always been doing its thing, big respects etc.
i think also i get the feeling for most of the music i am into, (maybe with the exception of hip hop and grime) that i was born in the wrong generation. This doesn& #39;t just apply to hardcore continuum, also rnb, psych rock, jazz, dancehall etc...
Mark Radford of course was big into Booka Shade and that Stefan bodzin/huntemann track. personally I never really got with that sound. I really liked rag and bone out of south london, near woolwich.
but i was getting my music from radio, not necessarily clubbing. So that& #39;s also an important difference.
