Wednesday, November 29, 2017

'E' by Gum!

Lifeline's Peanut Pete Ecstasy safety leaflets archived here by their designer / writer Michael Linnell.




Thursday, November 23, 2017

ambient d&b










kind of ambient drum & bass, without the drums ... and the bass dissolved from distinct riffs into a mire of sub-lo texture

like someone auditioning for a sound design job on Blade Runner 2049

and also not unlike Acardipane's most ambient-gabba moments e.g. "Jupiter Pulse"






Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Nodz on








Suburban Base's graphic designer Dave Nodz having a bash on the Cubase


Not to be confused with this




or this project






back to the brilliance of Nodz

                                           





















                                             


Woebot did a fab profile of Nodz back in the early blogging days - now findable only in the Big Book of Woe. a snip at $2.99

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

ghosts of futures past



via Luke Davis, a gorgeous film of  kids electro-boogieing on the London Underground, as haunting for its ghostly glimpses of public transport and commuters in the Eighties as the angular grace of the dancing and the sleek futurism of the clothes


some more ghosts - and a track that is a 20th Century monument

Thursday, November 9, 2017

neuro97



maybe neurofunk wasn't a totally bad idea after all - that's pretty wicked, that

off of Jonny L's Sawtooth which is getting a reissue to celebrate its 20 Years Existence

plus a raft of remixes (all by dubstep-aligned types not drum & bass operators, significantly) of his big tune of '97 "Piper"

who knew there was a promo?



puro neuro



but he could also do pretty



and then within just a few years he'd jumped from neuro two-steppers to actual 2step garridge - and onto the TOTP sound-stage, in the company of Posh Spice




the foundation of his Hall of Fame status, though, is this early effort








the 99 relick




i guess that's why call it a Continuum, folks! (pt 2984)

Sunday, November 5, 2017

proto grime

garage rap really - precursor to Pay As U Go




https://www.mixcloud.com/uncledugs/spp-slimzee-plague-and-paco-on-rinse-1003-fm-late-1999/

Thursday, November 2, 2017

siiiick bass, Think-ing dark



 sick B-line

that track, I always connected with  Mask / Gang Related's "Ready Or Not" - both have that mental jagged bassline
"Ready Or Not" annoyingly isn't on YouTube in its original form, but only as this (pretty decent) remix