WELCOME TOO THE 1ST EDITION OF MY MONTHLY SHOW ON
@MODERADIO.LONDON
THIS SERIES WILL ACT AS AN AUDIO-VISUAL INVESTIGATION THAT BLURS THE LINE BETWEEN DJING & JOURNALISM, SOLICITING TO PLATFORM OFTEN DEMONISED & MISS-REPRESENTED SUB-CULTURES THAT HAVE BEEN SKEWED OUT OF PROPORTION BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S JAGGED NARRATIVE.
THIS MONTH I HAVE SCRAPED TOGETHER AN ALMIGHTY CONTINGENT OF RIGHTEOUS PROFESSOR’S TO AUDIBLY SCRUTINISE THE HUMANITIES OF THE DARK-SIDE, A SOUND TO ME THAT’S PHILOSOPHY CONCRETELY REPRESENTS SPONTANEITY & STRUCTURAL REJECTION.
BY 1990, BRITISH RAVE CULTURE WAS ERUPTING INTO AN UNCONTROLLABLE FORCE, WITH THE AMEN BEGINNING TO CREEP INTO AN INCREASING NUMBER OF HARDCORE PRODUCTIONS, THAT EMPHASISED MUTATED BREAK-BEATS. ORGANICALLY RAGGA INFLUENCES, EMBEDDED IN THE CORE OF SOUND-SYSTEM CULTURE, STARTED TO INFILTRATE THESE SYNCOPATED RHYTHMS, EMANATING IN JUNGLE MUSIC. PRODUCERS SUCH AS DOC SCOTT, ED RUSH & OPTICAL JUXTAPOSED THE BLATANT BUOYANCY OF JUNGLE WITH THE STEMS OF A MUCH MORE UNSTERILE & TECHNICAL SOUNDSCAPE, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS TECHSTEP, WHICH IN TURN GAVE BIRTH TO THE NEUROFUNK SUB-GENRE. SELF-CONSCIOUSLY UNDERGROUND, TECHSTEP IS DEEPLY ATMOSPHERIC & IS OFTEN CHARACTERIZED BY SINISTER THEMES, COLD YET COMPLEX PERCUSSION & DISTORTED BASSLINES. DARKSIDE MARKS A PERIOD WHEN DNB BECAME MORE INSULAR, BEGINNING TO DRAW INSPIRATION FROM ITSELF RATHER THAN OTHER COMPRESSED EXPRESSIONS.
AS THE 90’S DREW TO A CLOSE, DNB WITHDREW FROM ORTHODOX POPULARITY, PRIMARILY DUE TO THE GENERAL PUBLICS FASCINATION SWITCHING TO THE MORE OMINOUS EMERGING SOUNDS OF UKG & 2-STEP. AS TIME WENT ON, DARK-SIDE BECAME MORE MINIMAL, & INCREASINGLY UNILLUMINATED IN TONE, WITH THE FUNKY, COMMERCIAL APPEAL REPRESENTED BY RONI SIZE BACK IN 1997 WANED. A CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS WAS THE INCREASING DISPROPORTION OF MALE TO FEMALE CLUB GOERS & A GENERALLY MORE ON EDGE ATMOSPHERE IN RAVES.
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17:00 - 19:00
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