Over the years, as i get older/go out clubbing less and less, I listen to/buy more and more Reggae & Dub. I love the fact that the same record can be chill as fuck and a dance groover depending on the context. Dance music in it’s purest form imo.
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War in a Babylon fits this bill I think. It can be dropped in at peek oompty boomty time and delivers a bassline that will have every bahookie in the room shaking.
Do you think that dub sets are rare on radio ( i agree that they are almost non existent now and were even back in the true london pirate days) because heard through a radio, dub doesn’t get to showcase its true qualities?
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it’s possible. though the 90s pirates did play jungle with a lot of abstraction, but you could make a compelling case that the frenetically double timed breaks were more amenable to radio than the loping, tumbling drums of dub. It’s a discussion I’ve often had with mates. very curious omission. obviously dub was absolutely massive in the london reggae community, but in the dances and with toasting. one deck selector mayhem! no need for mixing!
I’m probably the last person on earth to tell anyone how to spend their money but this seems obscene.
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Old man shouts at cloud rant, but…
The internet is not very usable any more.
A youtube video on how to give CPR has two adverts you have to watch before it shows you how to do a lifesaving act.
I tried to click through to have a sneaky look at an expensive property next to where i used to live and this is the amount of the article i could see through the ads.
Google’s AI overview regularly brings up insane shit like this
Or this…
If you showed someone from 2000 what the internet is like now, they would think your computer was infected with malware…
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Erm! 
What the actual factual fuck!?
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never liked that track to begin with, so in a way i just saved $90.
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So you don’t need 8-10 remixes of the same track and a boxset/booklet then?
It just seems incredibly pointless especially as the track isn’t that hard to find, is it? They must have sold loads.
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Change your default search to this https://udm14.com/ and it removes the ai guff 
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Very well expressed what I was thinking
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this is a guilty pleasure but I know it’s fucking diabolical lol. well, not guilty, but cannot find the right term for it. shameful pleasure doesn’t quite roll off the tongue in the same way.
it’s well gakked up.
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Fucking great book.
His comments on Bear Grylls- representing a form of masculinity which is fundamentally useless- still resonate.
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I have the (very) vague memory of a remix of Energy 52 that was all the usual pads and synth hook, but was all breaks with no 4/4. I thought it was the Kid Paul mix, but it appears not). I’ve never been able to find it and it may just be a figment of my imagination, or some kind of mash up.
People who are so scared of losing their jobs that they sugar coat everything to the point where we don’t progress one mm.
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i’m sure there’s a killer outsider soundcloud breakcore remix of it but I’m not going to search it out. Listening to the Kid Paul original is traumatic enough.
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Not really a what don’t you get. but kind of. Just got home from seeing Moodyman. He played what I can only describe as the most bewildering set I’ve ever seen. Elvis, chilli peppers tribe, super loud, super quiet, some really quite terrible pop house, all interspersed with chatting on the mic every couple of minutes. Blimey!!. Fortunately Carl Craig came on and dealt with my abject confusion. So many people just not sure what was happening lol.
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Good to hear not much has changed since I last saw him at the Electric chair!
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