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(Who Gatekeeps The Gatekeepers? Julia Toppin & Joe Muggs In Conversation | The Quietus)

"Writer and drum & bass scholar Julia Toppin and the author of Bass, Mids, Tops, Joe Muggs take a deep look at many of the issues raised by traditional rave and club narratives".

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Tastes so good.

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Drink from Joe Muggs...

Drink from Joe Muggs…

I have a favorite drink that I like to order from the Joe Muggs inside my local book store. I overheard another customer ordering one when I was in the book store and I thought that sounded good. It’s called “Snow Joe’s Frozen Hot Chocolate” (as seen below). Normally they put chocolate drizzle on top but once in a great while I’ll get one that has these mini chocolate chips on top instead. An…

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Tom Middleton & Joe Muggs

Tom Middleton & Joe Muggs – Spiritland 2018

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A History Of The U.K.'s Earthshakingly Bass-Heavy Sound System Culture In 10 Tracks

We spoke with Joe Muggs, author of 'Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History Of Sound System Culture' about the tracks that define this cornerstone of UK dance music.

[scuffeddeejays]

In exclusive excerpts from his forthcoming book, Joe Muggs maps the multiple continuua of bassline-driven music that has reverberated through British life for half a century.

The photographer Brian Stevens and I have worked together for a long time getting to this simplicity. We first made a vague attempt to map out underground culture through interviews and portraits a full decade ago, with my VeryVeryMuch website. “Underground culture” is a helluva catch-all, though, and after putting up a few interviews we found ourselves unfocused and overcomplicated. Also, I forgot to renew the domain name.

Meanwhile I had found myself wrestling with the “hardcore continuum” as coined by Simon Reynolds. It’s a fantastic, and extremely useful, term for – roughly speaking – London pirate/rave music of the 1990s and 2000s. But some of its more zealous guardians became obsessed with putting hard boundaries about it, making it proprietary and rigid. In debating with them, and with Reynolds, I started falling for the idea of multiple continuua: porous, fluid, readily-combinable structures within culture.

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Never mind nostalgia - we're living in a golden age of intergenerational partying

Rave veterans are mingling with newer recruits both on the dancefloor and behind the decks

A wise man once said, “everything ain’t for everybody” and neither should it be. For all that raving should have inclusivity as a core value, if it becomes too safe or too predictable, something is lost. It’s vital to have things that are too loud, too weird, too alien, too shocking for anyone but the hardcore. It’s important for micro-scenes to be able to form in isolation or in opposition to establishments. Not everyone wants their nan or nephew next to them when they’re lost in a dancefloor moment, right? Yet that sense of dance music as something bigger than all of us, as something unifiying – “we live as one family” and all that gubbins – is still compelling.

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Quiet time📚👓📚