Yep. Jungle/DnB will never be what it was - a fact I thought had stopped bothering me a long while ago. But there's been plenty of banter about it recently: here, here, here and here.
However, if you want to shock out like you did when you first heard Splash's 'Babylon', but to tunes made in 2004, then download this mix by Bailey on the John Peel show (courtesy of FUNXION on the Subvert Central forum - here's the tracklisting). I think this mix focuses less on the GLR-with-overfussy-breaks style, and more on the mashup-dancefloor-smashers-inna-2004-stylee, if you get my drift. Absolutely T for Tremendous!
posted by Lee Manikk @ 16:24
The Blue Coat School building on Tottenham High Road has been in a state of disrepair for as long as I remember, and that's going back over twenty years. Its dilapidated state doesn't stop it from being part of London's physical memory; the human interaction it encounters reduced to fly-posting, the only catalyst for its slow evolution. Unfortunately the "plans for refurbishment by Haringey Council and the English Heritage to return it into its former state" seem to have been discarded, as I'm sure its 'refurbishment' shouldn't entail knocking half of it down.
posted by Lee Manikk @ 21:35