Despite being a casual electronic music fan, I didn’t know most of this stuff. Also, I’ve been listening to [[ Burial musician ]] for a decade and had no idea he was considered dubstep. (I’m terrible at recognizing music genres, though.)
This documentary is great because it’s one part memory, one part analysis, one part music history.
It talks a lot about how dubstep originally felt like gritty, realistic music that reflected a reality of [[ London ]] and life in the [[ United Kingdom ]] that most people didn’t want to admit. Lots of imagery of walking through city streets at night.
That imagery made me think about psychogeography and [[ Guy Debord ]]’s [[ derive ]]. I’ve always connected electronic music specifically with that sort of thing. To me, it feels like my place-memories are “embedded” into electronic music more so than other music. Like there are specific electronic tracks that make me think of walking around a place at night, standing on the subway, etc.
There’s always been a sense of the liminal and liminality in electronic music for me, and this documentary really added to that sense and mythos to me.
Also, there’s a great quote from the video that I need to dig back up again from a [[ Mark Fisher ]] interview with . . . someone (Burial, I think). That felt particularly psychogeographic.
List of tracks mentioned:
00:03 Menta - Snake Charmer
00:46 Skrillex - Ruffneck
00:53 Peverelist - Roll with the punches (Harmonimix bootleg)
01:24 Lenkemz - Entro (p)
01:38 Freestyle Fellowship - Hot Potato
01:57 Capone - Three Drops
02:11 Starkey - Prism
03:24 Mala - Sinners
04:33 Coki - Red Eye
04:45 Skream - Tapped
05:00 Mala - Miracles
06:03 The Bug ft Flowdan - Jahwar (Loefah remix)
06:40 Skream - Midnight Request Line
07:30 Coki - Tortured
07:37 Skream - Dutch Flowers (Rusko remix)
08:15 Coki - Ruff Lovin
09:12 Excerpt from Youngsta - Forward Live Vol 01 [2004]
09:48 Lovestation - Teardrops
11:12 Skream - I (Loefah remix)
12:29 Mala - Hunter
13:10 Benny Ill - Fat Larry’s Skank (Kode9 remix)
13:51 Kode9 - 9 Samurai
14:18 Mala - Anti-War Dub
15:00 Calenda - Forever
15:20 Burial - Archangel
16:20 Burial - Shell of Light
16:28 Burial - Fostercare
16:38 Burial - Homeless
17:04 Burial - Stolen Dog
19:29 Skrillex - Cinema
19:54 Plastician - Still Tippin
20:35 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches
22:34 Digital Mystikz - Haunted
23:18 Rusko - Hammertime
23:28 Rusko - 2 N A Q
23:50 Becoming Real - Jen’s Clock
24:20 Zomby - Kaliko
24:43 Zomby - Strange Fruit
24:48 Zomby - With Lazers
24:50 Piece of Shh - Diablo Riddim (Zomby’s Acid)
24:51 Zomby - Little Miss Naughty
25:00 Ikonika - Please
25:10 Becoming Real - Fast Motion
25:22 Von D ft Phe Phe - Show Me
25:27 Phaeleh - Afterglow
25:28 Clouds - Protecting Hands Pt 2
25:53 Shackleton - In the Void
26:12 Untold - Stop What You’re Doing
26:19 Untold - Anaconda
26:30 James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof
27:02 Joker - Gully Brook Lane
27:36 Joker - Retro Racer
27:39 Joker - TRON
27:43 Joker & Rustie - Play Doe
27:57 Gemmy - Bk 2 the Future
28:07 Guido - Mad Sax
28:14 Ghost Mutt - Thoroughbred
28:32 Joker - Purple City
29:12 Coki - Goblin
30:30 Sorrow - Voynich
31:43 Kahn & Neek - Soundboy Obliterator (send for Visionist)
32:01 Crissy Criss - Soap Dodger
32:41 Coki - Spongebob
34:14 Jakes - 3kout
34:53 Laroux - In For the Kill (Skrillex remix)
35:21 Caspa - Louder VIP
35:48 Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
35:54 Excision - The Paradox
35:57 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know
36:22 Doctor P - Sweet Shop
36:37 The Others - Africa VIP
36:53 Skrillex - Right In
37:10 Coki - Voodoo Dolls
37:58 Mala - Eyez
38:23 Wiley - Ice Pole Remix
38:41 Wiley - King of Grime
38:57 Mr Virgo - Hyponotic 2
39:15 Noah D - Seeeriousss
40:10 Sukh Knight - Diesel Not Petrol
40:38 Jakes - Titan
41:23 Peverelist - Junktion (Shed remix)
42:26 Darkstar - Aidy’s Girl is a Computer
43:38 Caspa - My Pet Monster
44:05 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know
44:18 Starkey - Time Traveller
46:50 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches (Harmonimix bootleg)
48:14 Goli & Ashburner - If I
51:56 16bit - Shallow