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.
