Blackdown: LOEFAH INTERVIEW + Pitchfork column

Post by **dubway** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:07 pm

LOEFAH INTERVIEW - http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/

Pitchfork column - http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/them ... 7-05.shtml

READ!!!

dgg · Post by **dgg** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:17 pm

Blackdown delivers again!

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:36 pm

Good read...

zefa · Post by **zefa** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:41 pm

dgg wrote:Blackdown delivers again!

Indeed...interesting stuff as always...respect to Mr Blackdown.

andythetwig · Post by **andythetwig** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:29 pm

is it me or could he have made more of the vex'd effex'd and planet mu?

sending out shockwaves through IDM and recruiting a whole crowd of jaded middle class white nerds...

orson · Post by **orson** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:42 pm

big up martin .. !!!

dgg · Post by **dgg** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:27 pm

andythetwig wrote:is it me or could he have made more of the vex'd effex'd and planet mu?

sending out shockwaves through IDM and recruiting a whole crowd of jaded middle class white nerds...

... ouch, that hit a little too close to home for me (only it was One Way that did it)

hotflush · Post by **hotflush** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:33 pm

Nice read. Bigup Loef.

secretagentgel · Post by **secretagentgel** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:43 pm

L: My sound ainÂ’t there yet. ItÂ’s getting there. I want to be better than everyone. I want to have the best mixdown. The best, cleanest mixdown in the universe. Not even to boast, but when I hear it IÂ’m like Â‘ahh Â… thatÂ’s crystal.Â’

i've been reading the reissue of "all crews" the book on the history of jungle, dnb. something that struck me is a section talking about the metalheadz inspiring each other. production was a contest, a showdown. each producer would try to top their contemporaries with every new record.

i'm stuck here in the sticks of the USA, but i'm still hearing a lot of new tunes thanks to the web. and it does strike me that a lot of the producers i'm hearing are inspiring each other, if only in the "i need a bass even more wicked" sense. even tho loefah doesn't begin to know who i am, i relate to that good-natured competitiveness. i hear his tracks, and think, "i gotta top that." i fail, but it's inspiring.

joenicedj · Post by **joenicedj** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:09 pm

brilliant stuff...

andythetwig · Post by **andythetwig** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:31 pm

dgg wrote:
andythetwig wrote:is it me or could he have made more of the vex'd effex'd and planet mu?

sending out shockwaves through IDM and recruiting a whole crowd of jaded middle class white nerds...

... ouch, that hit a little too close to home for me (only it was One Way that did it)

cuts like a knife doesn't it?
We're all nathan barleys with delusions of street cred

appleblim · Post by **appleblim** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:06 pm

^^^no we're not

utterly absorbing read.....some fascinating insights, not least being that Mala was on the 2-step and house thing.....would love to hear some of his house productions...

also, how much more credit can Loefah give to Vex'd other than saying he wants to work with him? surely the highest form of approval....

i think if they link up some serious sonic shockwaves are gonna be sent out....can u imagine it?! awesome.....

easeup · Post by **easeup** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:48 pm

appleblim wrote:i think if they link up some serious sonic shockwaves are gonna be sent out....can u imagine it?! awesome.....

you know it! heavy wouldnt even come close to describin that destructive force.. speakers beware!

Big ups m and loefah a real enlightenin read!
always fully impressed by how much thinkin is involved in this scene..

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:01 pm

someone should fix the link to the column on Pitchfork's homepage. That shit no worky

cogent · Post by **cogent** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:30 pm

Great read.. very inspiring...

Loefah 2006 = Big Tings

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:45 pm

re the pitchfork column ... i like it when martin writes about dubstep but he makes a few too many generalisations about grime for my liking. This one is one of the worst examples. Also lethal didn't have 'success' with his album. at all. did he

dubmugga · Post by **dubmugga** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:09 pm

amazing parallels on the musical side with loefah...

...makes us want to raise our game to kick everyones arse as well

nice one blackdown...

zefa · Post by **zefa** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:33 pm

dubmugga wrote:amazing parallels on the musical side with loefah...

...makes us want to raise our game to kick everyones arse as well

nice one blackdown...

Good stuff man...interested in hearing some of your stuff...is there any online anywhere?

blackdown · Post by **blackdown** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:41 am

Alex bk-bk wrote:re the pitchfork column ... i like it when martin writes about dubstep but he makes a few too many generalisations about grime for my liking. This one is one of the worst examples. Also lethal didn't have 'success' with his album. at all. did he

it's a end of year round up, surely this is the moment for generalisations?

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:33 am

well arguably that's true but you managed to be a lot clearer in the second part of your column. I'm not just being long for the sake of it, I'm genuinely interested - which beefs and which younger MCs did you have in mind?

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