{"id":142,"date":"2009-02-27T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olwill.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-03-01T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T12:34:47","slug":"nuum-spectrum-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Nuum spectrum disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0I posted last January 08 <\/a>that a blogging bitch fight was about to begin. What was being contested was the use\/aplicability of the hard core continuum model. The fight never really kicked off and I felt foolish and petty and assumed everybody else was more mature. Now, to my gossipy delight, it turns out they’re not, they were just biding their time and it has begun, with these(1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) posts from K punk and this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a> from Simon Reynolds and these<\/a> from Splintering bone ash and this<\/a> and this<\/a> from Kode 9 and this<\/a> from Dan Hancox at fact(ok I’ll stop, oh no I wont’) this<\/a> from uncarved. Beyond the schoolyard fun of rushing to view the ‘fight! fight!’. There is good thinking and writing going on about current bass\/dance music.<\/p>\n

Reynolds and K punk are being a bit silly and bulldoggy attacking wonky. The hcc is a good and useful model but, it gets less interesting when used as a stick to beat things that don’t fall into it(also models aren’t real<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 Claiming things aren’t as good as they once were is not that interesting.<\/p>\n

How good or bad wonk, funky or bassline are and to what extent they fit in the hcc is an angels on pin heads issue and is a nostalgia mode in itself.<\/p>\n

Mr splintering bone ash<\/a> is the one nailing it best – What is lacking is not as he points out a<\/p>\n