Trawling compulsively through the blogosphere last night, found some cool stuff:

This is an interesting post about some current grime-influenced dance music coming out of England, and it’s potential merging with circa-93 IDM melodicism, and how cool that could be. Yeah, this is obscure to the max, but isn’t that what blogs are for? I enjoyed the mp3 samples and descriptions of interesting music I would not have heard otherwise. I like blogs when they do stuff like this.

There is an interesting little meme going around regarding the roots of IDM, it’s “social content” and “sonic form”, and whether or not these are racist. Nice to see people talking about the social undercurrents underpinning various genres. This stuff is the meat that makes music fascinating for so many people, at least me, whether or not we’re conscious of it. Here you will find Jane Dark aka Felizitas’ original post, here is Philip Sherburne’s response, and here is Simon Reynolds’. This, also, is what blogs are for.

My friend and housemate and sometimes editor Mark Baumgarten has started a blog and another one dedicated to live reviews. I will soon be joining Mark in posting reviews of shows and stuff. Collective brains and reportage on things you won’t find in print = blogs.

So what is this one for? Hopefully the same things, and that bit about “music in context” or whatever I was babbling about a couple posts ago, but today we’re just pointing the way. I think I’m gonna post something like a year-end list soon, and maybe a round up of good lists I found elsewhere. Perhaps my top ten top tens? That’s also what blogs are for, and that’s kind of why they suck sometimes.