The latest issue of XLR8R magazine focuses on the mutations of the UK funky sound with funky first lady Cooly G on the cover and a ten pages article by Brandon Ivers entitled ‘Mutant Funk’ featuring quotes of Cooly G, Roska and Geeneus…
●Grab a pdf version of the mag.
Following Alex’ posts at splinteringboneashes in February, here’s some interesting thoughts about wonky and wonkification by Rouge Foam drawing the lines between wonky as a music theme and early 20 century modern painting. Read the piece Loving Wonky. Followed by two other posts After The Beat (Still Loving Wonky) and The Face Of Wonky.
T from T.G.P.B. responded in this interesting post: Participatory Discrepancy. Also Jeff from “There was always a doubt” finds some relations with architecture in a post entitled Wonkitecture.
Numbers 6th Birthday
Friday 3rd July 2009
The Sub Club, Jamaica Street, Glasgow.
Doors 11pm – late / £10
MMM aka Erik & Fiedel (live)
Gemmy (Planet Mu)
Guido (Punch Drunk)
+ Goodhand & Nelson
Read Dan Hancox’s piece for The Guardian about the purple sound of Gemmy, Guido and Joker.
The Wire magazine published a piece by Derek Walmsley based on his interview with Kode9. It’s the May cover issue of The Wire no. 303. The unedited transcript should be is posted on their website. We also recommend this interview by Philip Sherburne for emusic. And if you’re still hungry have a listen to Kode9 and Kodwo Eshun’s lecture ‘Beyond the Long Tail’ at the Audio Poverty conference in Berlin, Feb 2009.
Must-read unedited transcript of Joe Muggs’s interview with El-B for The Wire.
Laurent Fintoni puts forward the idea of a Boom bap continuum. You can also read his article about The Return of the Boom bap on Spannered.
The Hardcore Continuum? A discussion.
Presented by the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London
In association with The Wire.
UEL Docklands Campus (Cyprus DLR)
April 29th 2009 2:00pm-6:00pm
Simon Reynolds’ commentary on the “hardcore continuum” – the mutating sequence of dancefloor music to have emerged from the breakbeat hardcore matrix of the early 1990s – has recently generated intense debate in the musical blogosphere. What is the value of this concept? Does it still usefully describe the context from which dynamic new beat musics emerge? Can the conditions of creativity in the 1990s be replicated in the era of web 2.0? Should we even want them to be?
Speakers: Mark Fisher (K-Punk), Alex Williams (Splintering Bone Ashes), Steve Goodman (Kode 9), Lisa Blanning (The Wire), Dan Hancox (Guardian, New Statesman), Kodwo Eshun (Author of More Brilliant than the Sun), Joe Muggs (Mixmag, The Wire), Jeremy Gilbert (Co-author of Discographies)
Attendance is free but pre-registration is recommended. For info or to register contact J.Gilbert@uel.ac.uk
Don’t miss the latest episodes of the nuum escarmouche…
The wonky chapter by Alex on Splintering Bone Ashes:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Simon Reynolds also has a view on it.
TBC…