William VanLoo wrote: > That's the thing I dig about Simon Reynolds - I have a pretty > different context than the one he comes from, and I don't always agree > with what he says, but he's at least got a sense of humor about it.
Whaddya think about this paragraph where "the mad coiner" just about busts a blood vessel hyphenating shit? > In the tradition of hardcore and jungle before it, London's garage scene > works as a gigantic laboratory, a permutation space where new hyphenated > hybrids and creole micro-genres flicker into life for a few months or even > just weeks, then disappear: speed garage, slow jungle, ska-house, acid > swingbeat, hyper-funk, breakbeat garage, disco-ragga, grunge dub, riddim > & blues, electro-gamelan, divas-in-the-echo-chamber, crack house, > tech-2-step, quiet stormcore, sugarshack breakbeat funk, scrap iron dub, > bleep garage, wildstyle soul, lover's jump-up. > I can just see him with his head in a bassbin, jotting this stuff down on a notepad. Priceless! -d.w.
