First up a big hi to Dan Curtin who dropped me a nice note to say that "Biotic" is one of his tracks, not Kenny Larkin's. Dan is also NOT from Detroit, but I reckon (unlike Mark Ryder, honcho of SubBase too? I'm unsure but...) he's gonna have to reconcile himself to a 313 zip code. I love it when famous people email me! By the way Reynolds said (clears throat) "Amazing Detroit piece!" so he's not mad at me. Why should he be anyway? Back to work now Simon.
Second, Wotcha to Marcus at Rephlex who put out a Future Sounds Compilation (Chicago). I mentioned this already, but GO BUY! I was a bit down on some of the UK Techno crew, which naturally doesn't include the Rephlex stuff, different game going on there. Some of the early stuff (groan) is really nice. I have all those B12s and ARTs and even a few of Slater's early 12's as well as a well-documented Black Dog fetish (all their stuff AMAAAZINNGG). But later on (quite quickly) that scene just doesn't have the same frisson for me, sorry guys. There were too many other splendid things going on.
Great spotter-ish stuff at Eden's. I intend to find a copy of "Heathen Earth", Meme also rates it highly. On the subject of Paul check his GREAT Ragga mix at Bassnation as well as Eden's New Roots mix. Ah what chums we are!
Hello also to the Techno crew Maarten and Marsel, who's site I can't log on to, I'm presuming because it's so mash-up over there.
I've been listening to the Dizzy Rascal LP, squeezing it in here and there (suddenly I'm massively busy with work, how did that happen?) Here is my review:
"It's great! It's slow!"
In my role as (ahem) one of the UK Garage Ambassadors I've made Jay Shorthand and Portuguese Jose (both died-in-the-wool Metallers like myself) swear they'd check it out. Watch that space! I should have mentioned to Tim Skykicking that I have an embargo on ALL slow UK Garage. Sorry, no one else is allowed to write about that!
Finally, my fave track right now? 50 pence "In Da Pub" of course! Why isn't everyone raving about it? I'll bet they like it at Spizzazzz. Been trying to get Luka to team up with me (I need his kid-sterati cred, gotta keep up with these young fellows) to do 50 bytes "In Da Blog". Stay tuned!
Posted by Woebot at July 25, 2003 10:46 AM