The Bug - Pressure

It's mostly early 70s fusion, mixed up with a bit of 23 Skidoo, early Kraftwerk (when they were The Organization), Pop Group etc. I wouldn't necessarily say that every track is "good," but it has a lot of cool obscure stuff and the general sound hasn't really been recycled yet... even tho it does have all the hip names. I dunno, haven't listened to it in ages, but I always liked it. It's out there.

bens right. the thing i didn't like about jazz sats was the seemingly incongruous more recent stuff martin worked in.

Some of the slow jams just sound like b-sides from Mezzanine, but not as good...

I think you're right in that maybe I'm just bored with 'electronic noise' and you're not! It's not a bad record, better than I expected, but I think Anna's inference is right and there's something drearily macho about it - more so even than 'proper' dancehall which is the most ridiculously hypermacho music there is most of the time.

so, it was sort of good, but not that good really.

havent heard the record though yet.

i don't like the idea of him though (for most of the reasons mentioned upthread). whatever that means. that makes me not like it and dismiss it out of hand. good idea, huh.

if martin thought to use a handclap just once it would be more significant than all his entire recorded output to date

and i can't be a proto-trendoid, because i'm always behind the curve.

btw, like i blogged yesterday, anyone who loves doomy sludge must own the toadliquor CD on southern lord, reprising their 1994 record. oh my.

I didn't expect to enjoy myself but I did, his schtick makes so much more sense boomin' live. He also played a DJ set for the warm up, incl. Fuck U Sign, Pass That Dutch and Flat Beat! I danced my ass (and a coupla other things too) off, and if you get the chance to catch him live I say definitely go for it. Even if ur a hater, like I was.

man if there were handclaps on this...nice nice nice

is there a thread on the new album? ive heard bits and pieces and it sounds amazing.

Trust me - nothing begins at home.

I almost started a thread and then didn't. The album is awesome.

worse worse worse
shotta in your face make you send fi di nurse
nurse nurse nurse
doctor cyan't fix yuh send fi di hearse
hearse hearse hearse

TOP SHOTTA!
tell dem idiot bwoy the warrior queen a TOP SHOTTA!

Did Tom ever get anything right?

i didn't think pressure was particularly amazing at the time, i loved the bug singles (esp w/warrior queen) but it seemed a bit monotonous over a whole album. might dig it out to listen w/new ears, but i'm pretty sure that in terms of the album format (if not nec the bug's skillz), london zoo (which i've started rinsing again w/the advent of freezing weather) is a gigantic and awesome leap fwd.

warrior queen remains one of the most thrilling live MCs i have ever seen btw. fierce and righteous and never less than 100% captivating

oh god i just remembered where i first saw her! NYE 04/05, house party where she and the bug were playing, i got v drunk and babbled to her for ages afterwards about how great she was :(

TO ALL THEM FUCKING PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, LOOK PON THE STATE OF YOUR HOME.

The album is immense. The argument at the top of this thread seems kind of quaint now as London Zoo slots in perfectly alongside grime and dubstep. I actually wish there was more grime that sounded as DEEP as the Flo Dan tracks on here. I'm glad he found a new home for his verse on Bounce as well.

matt have u heard plastician/skepta 'intensive snare'??? u absolutely must!

that's akin to saying that any techno with compression on the 909 (ie any techno made outside detroit) isn't "real" techno.

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Thank goodness no-one on ILM would be that dumb

ARE YOU STUPID IN THE NOSE, BASSLINE IN THE NOSTRIL

boy better know this
my name's joseph
my name's skepta
my name's junior
see in school i used to hit boys with a ruler
the english teacher tried to make me hoover
but i'm a bad boy from nigeria
not st lucia
joseph junior adenuga
big lips african hooter
go on then go on then!!

"mostly untried British MCs"

Oh Tom.

He did put an '(I think)' just before that, dude.

Yeah you're right. Back in the days before the internet it would have been hard to check that sort of thing.

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something something something, a would i kick ya in ya face a would i rob ya?
blah blah blah
phenaminmaminan ONE!
this one dedicated to all badman
something about manchester, all i done
blah blah blah
4/4, you na wanna see the 4/4
five! something something something, na stay alive
blah blah blah
we na really care if its early or late, badman really wanna fake
strip!
phenaminaminan six, blah blah blah
phenaminaminan seven, blah blah blah
phenaminaminan eight, blah gunshot blah blah
papa in a suit and mama in a frock

SKENG! SKENG! SKENG! MI KILL A MAN RELOAD THE BIG SKENG! SKENG! SKENG!

EVIL, EVIL, EVIL etc
NURSE, NURSE, NURSE etc
doctor can't fix you send fi di hearse
HEARSE, HEARSE, HEARSE etc

blah blah blah

ah, dubstepforum.