Thursday sees Joao Orrechia, Meat the Veggies (i hate jokes.) and Data Takashi at House of Ntsako. Today was Election Day. Fuck. On Saturday Data Takashi played a dubstep set like old jeans heavy with dirty brown river water. Like, the Mississipi if all the fish lost their fins in The Struggle and had to have titanium replacements fitted. And then, on Friday, some boys with fringes made the air shake and it sounded pretty damn good.
TechnoMusicIsReallyNice.
So, lately, there hasn't been much reason for me to bother with boxes covered in strings and bowls with lids you can hit with sticks. That fateful Friday (at back2basix, eurgh) two of the most socially awkward Young Men to ever climb onto the corner of a stage changed all that. After forming a few years back and taking the Scene (as it was) by storm for a few months, Us Kids Know (now renamed Sad Swamps) disappeared. The next thing I heard was a full, ringing, epiphanic something charging the air around WSOA at night as I earned my first year bitch credits. It spoke to (I like that joke.) fear and irrelevance and people believing that an SMS is a person. What was prophecised, and what I saw on the far right of the pukey-orange, Quervo-bannered stage, was human beings making music bigger than themselves.
Gary Thomas is a cowboy.
Sad Swamps is a less good name for a more good Us Kids Know.
TechnoMusicIsReallyNice.
So, lately, there hasn't been much reason for me to bother with boxes covered in strings and bowls with lids you can hit with sticks. That fateful Friday (at back2basix, eurgh) two of the most socially awkward Young Men to ever climb onto the corner of a stage changed all that. After forming a few years back and taking the Scene (as it was) by storm for a few months, Us Kids Know (now renamed Sad Swamps) disappeared. The next thing I heard was a full, ringing, epiphanic something charging the air around WSOA at night as I earned my first year bitch credits. It spoke to (I like that joke.) fear and irrelevance and people believing that an SMS is a person. What was prophecised, and what I saw on the far right of the pukey-orange, Quervo-bannered stage, was human beings making music bigger than themselves.
Gary Thomas is a cowboy.
Sad Swamps is a less good name for a more good Us Kids Know.
On the usual note, here's something that will make your junk thunk:
Biscope - Ol Dirty (Shimmy Shimmy Ya Dubstep Remix) (Mediafire)
Biscope - Ol Dirty (Shimmy Shimmy Ya Dubstep Remix) (Mediafire)
When I first heard Biscope, I have to say I wasn't much impressed. It came almost two years after Kode9 + the Spaceape ate my personality, and wasn't heavy enough, wobbly enough, pyschedelic enough or fat enough. Not nearly, nearly fat enough. Especially coming from the brothers Rum[mmmmm]ney, it felt a bit halfass. However, I was wonderfully wrong.
Dubstep and an ODB sample can't lie too flat, I guess, but this itchy-scratchy wobbly-filthy piece of multi-layered hot yum is pretty exceptional. The real appeal of dubstep, in Colleensville, is the combination of the invasive, physical bass and the delicate, tricksy little Noises in the treble and your mind. In this track, Biscope (I like that joke too.) get the duality, and add their own particular funky, uncomfortable, catchy, friendly bite. Nice. Real nice.
And the moral of the folklore is:
People are important, and so are machines.
Dubstep and an ODB sample can't lie too flat, I guess, but this itchy-scratchy wobbly-filthy piece of multi-layered hot yum is pretty exceptional. The real appeal of dubstep, in Colleensville, is the combination of the invasive, physical bass and the delicate, tricksy little Noises in the treble and your mind. In this track, Biscope (I like that joke too.) get the duality, and add their own particular funky, uncomfortable, catchy, friendly bite. Nice. Real nice.
And the moral of the folklore is:
People are important, and so are machines.
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