![]() If you don’t have a decent stereo, don’t bother. Besides, without the internet, living here in New York I would never have heard this music at all, so who am I to complain?īefore the list, a few more notes. The truth is there’s just more of everything – the good, the bad, and, most glaringly, the mediocre. There have been ominous signs, especially in this year’s proliferation of slap-you-in-the-face wobble tracks that are uncomfortably reminiscent of drum’n’bass’ recent dead-end thuggishness.īut when it came time to compile this list, I realized that there were just as many forward-thinking songs this year as in years past – and perhaps more. It is a particularly local phenomenon that speaks of gray skies, pirate radio, council estates, the Jamaican diaspora, and packed nightclubs with systems tweaked for the low end.Īs this music has exploded far beyond the confines of the M25 in the last few years, the concern is that the density and convivial competition of the original scene – which led to so many innovative tracks and new directions – will be replaced by a center-less and directionless lowest-common-denominator stasis. ![]() ![]() The positives are obvious the negatives are that sounds become dissociated from the scenes in which they were cultivated, an elimination of context that is the flipside of the globalization of culture.ĭubstep – a sub-bass-obsessed hybrid of two-step, dub reggae, jungle, and techno, but something that really just sounds like itself – could only have grown out of the South London remnants of the collapsed UK garage scene. At this point it is a truism that the internet has all but obliterated geographical barriers to the distribution of new music. ![]()
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