Something is happening here…
The effort of trying to produce a worthy post for Mountain 7 on my first experience of dubstep Live involves taking a series of risks that produce an unavoidable guttural discomfort. First there is the formal risk of playing the role of Dylan’s Mister Jones in ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’. Secondly is the more fundamental but related problem of becoming involved in a broader anthropologisation. Can one write, discourse about a ‘thing’ without taking part in a kind of demand for it to become known, defined, given classification?
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I recall reading Kodwo Eshun’s ‘More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction’ a couple of years ago, and he was developing a schema for viral music. I now get the feeling that he was setting the terrain for the arrival of dubstep
The slightly unnerving feeling that we were taking part in an event which was not ours but was none-the-less well worth tuning into.
Skream has a flourish for the unexpected and the obscure which lends his music a lyrical sway.
A chance encounter and conversation with kode9 on our way home. It turns out that he and Eshun were colleagues during the early days of the Ccru project at the University of Warwick. I should have asked him about those links. Did he hear this thing coming, did he know that it was going to spew forth from Croydon’s own Big Apple?