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REynolds is hilarious. Nothing funnier than a hipster in denial. These crackas, please leave these young black boys alone, let them do thei thing. HE like michael jackson with his interest in these young london boys. If i was a young artist breaking out, pleae, Simon, leave me alone, dont come near me wiwth your kewl reviews and essays on me and m,y scene and how kraftwerjk influenced me. damn, dude is a loser 4 real.

― HipHOp, Sunday, 16 April 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't think he's in denial tho! However, he is on the verges of becoming incoherent, in terms of his lie of argument with the Arctic Monkey love an all.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 16 April 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/73/48/247348_903698255ad15478l6fs06.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

UM:

http://69.93.254.120/G/storage/site1/files/24/84/77/248477_012789581bd154y3o9qr06.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

NO COMMENT?!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 September 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

raves on a plane

― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

People with glasses all look alike.

Plus surely Reynolds =

http://www.uktv.co.uk/images/standardItem/L1/529996_L1.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Is that not him?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Rap It Up & Start Again.

http://bringthenoisesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/

― MC Haunted (Jaap Schip), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

'like dance never happened'

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh dear

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

depends what he puts in it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

the fact it specifies rock and hip-hop is pretty confusing if it's meant as a 'best of'. perhaps he's saving dance for another volume?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'll blatantly get it whatever but i half-think that writing about dance music just isn't a strong publishing proposition.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

ah he explains in comment box "i tried to make Bring the Noise barely overlap with either Blissed out or Energy Flash."

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

i hope there's a whole chapter on Bodycount (not)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

albeit with certain gaps

That Pat Kane piece was one of the best things he (Reynolds) ever wrote.

Probably better to wait for the Blissed Out reprint.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

DUD DUD DUD

he should work at NME with all his stupid gerne titles

f off mr neuronfunk

― X-101 (X-101), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

The NME wouldn't have him back in the (1985) day.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

New Monitor Express

― Stubbsy, Roberts, Reynolds (Jaap Schip), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Was Reynolds anti-house/rave at some point in the late 80's / early 90's? Because I'm reading DJ Culture by Ulf Poschardt (originally published in Germany in 1995), and in it Poschardt criticizes Reynolds as conservative indie journalist who devalues house and sampling in music because of their supposed facelessness and rootlesness, all of which sounds kinda funny if you've only read Energy Flash.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

doesnt he actually write about that in energy flash

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think you could easily read Energy Flash and come away with the impression that Reynolds doesn't like house that much, or at least not house after 1990 or so. He likes club culture, and loves ardkore, drum n bass, and garage, but I don't get the feeling he's a huge house fan, more someone who appreciates the role it's played in dance history. (Could be quite wrong though, I've not read Energy Flash for ages.)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember much talk in there about house at all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

i just mean the part about admitting he was a 'conservative indie journalist' at one point before he dropped in and tuned out or whatever

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

you sure he wasn't referring to Simon Price? :) :0

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

He was bigging up the "facelessness" of House as early as '87.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

In Energy Flash he says he quite liked dance music but didn't "get" it until '92 or so. He mentions how he described the second Bomb the Bass album as "progressive dance", a term which made him cringe when he remembered it later on.

He's pretty positive about Chicago/Nu Groove/early Strictly Rhythm and of course first wave Brit acid house (esp. "Voodoo Ray") but he seems to lose interest the moment house stopped being the leading edge. I seem to recall mid-nineties US garage, tribal house, deep house and progressive house all being grouped together and dismissed in one paragraph.

Then he got back into it in 1998 or so. And then dropped it again in 2001 or so.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

SR does tend to have a penchant for "boys' music."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

in it Poschardt criticizes Reynolds as conservative indie journalist who devalues house and sampling in music because of their supposed facelessness and rootlesness, all of which sounds kinda funny if you've only read Energy Flash

however if you've read a lot of reynolds' work this decade, but not EF, it sounds very accurate indeed

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

further evidence for the prosecution

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

it's_over_let_GO.jpeg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

i read that poschardt book!

iirc it's good.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's way more academic than most histories of electronic music / Djing, both in a good and a bad way. There's some sentences I don't simply understand, even though I have read a lot of the same theorists as he has, but in general I think his Foucault-inspired sociological analysis of dancefloor politics is more spot-on than what I've read in any other book on the subject. Being a German, I think he injects some interesting discourses that are left out in the more established histories written by Britons or Americans.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

OTM on Poschardt, I'm less familiar w/Foucault etc than you guys but managed to mine some interesting data from DJ Culture. The wooden, impenetrable stretches of prose I chalked up to translation.

he [Reynolds]says he quite liked dance music but didn't "get" it until '92 or so. He mentions how he described the second Bomb the Bass album as "progressive dance", a term which made him cringe when he remembered it later on.

overdetermined. similiarly, the only part of Generation XTC I didn't like, the part that made me cringe, was the self-flagellating intro where he copped to liking dance music for the wrong reasons. gasp!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Basically SR is INDIE BOY and has spent the last 15 years in costly self-denial.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha i read it when i was 18 so i doubt i'd even heard of foucault then!

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

This thread (on which an old Bogshed/Pigbros/Stump review by him is linked) is trying to figure out what Simon was liking in 1986:

Bogshed - kings of swing: discuss

If you know, please go there and tell people.

― xhuxk (xhuck), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

SR doesnt seem very bothered about music at the mo, the fact he doesnt think that anything amazing is going on seems to have contributed to the ennui and 'cant be fuckededness' in a lot of his posts on his blog. i mean, even he must know that gorrillaz song with the ed case remix was massive, and not just a little pirate radio thing. the fact he changed his tune about snoop dogg in a matter of days after he read john cale (or was it eno?) in uncut bigging snoop was a bit embarassing. he went from calling him 'haggard' to almost gushing about him!

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

SR: "doesn't Damon Albarn's The Good, The Bad & The Queen supergroup project sound just a tiny bit like a middlebrow take on h****ology?"

Next time I see this word I am going to throttle someone!

'-ology' - as though it were an actual field of study, rather than an excuse for basket-case pseuds like k-punk to wibble on for page upon page - when all they're really saying is "IT'S A BIT SPOOKY THIS INNIT"

― braveclub (braveclub), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Re: the pirates thing, though, surely this can be explained by his living abroad?

― braveclub (braveclub), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

if only there was some way of accessing information about foreign countries, perhaps via some kind of computer interface, before writing articles...

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

"hauntology" is the worst word ever, yes

(apart from the one which l jagger keeps saying which i'm not even going to type here)

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell is hauntology?!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

hauntology > overtired

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

fuck knows. something to do with stuff which is like between being and not being, but not in an existentialist way, about echoes of the past, but not in a nostalgic way, etc.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Basically the Blissblog/Dissensus/Wire/Resonance mob prefer their musicians to be safely dead.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Momus nails it obliquely on the head here.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

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