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Not totally in the dark with this I adored DJ Roc’s fellow Chicagoan DJ Nate’s “Make Em Run”.

This brilliant collection of tracks by Roc were originally aimed at the Juke scene before being picked up by the nimble Planet Mu label. Juke music’s breathless pace is the perfect twin to the South African Shangaan Electro. They are both hyper-accelerated versions of Jamaica’s clave-inflected backing-tracks – hearing Shangaan denuded is a bit weird though, maybe misleading even, from my own experience “in the field” MCs would be perpetually working the mic.

Track’s like DJ Roc’s “King of The Circle”, presumably feting the footwork of the lead “encircled” dancer – a carbon copy of how dances run in the sub-continent – are extra clues as to the inter-continental connection. It’s enchanting the way that producers on both sides of the Atlantic have lightened and sweetened the beats so as to cope with the track’s velocities – working at the edge of our ever-evolving capacity to deal with increasing perceptual speeds. Like any music, if you slow your hearing down, you can pick up vestigial traces of historic music, but here the motion blur is so enveloping it dodges this reception.

DJ Roc’s tracks share with other Juke Music a greater sense of implied rhythm than was in evidence in Booty/Ghetto, Chicago’s previous dance music. It’s probably inaccurate to talk about the two as separate entities but in Booty it felt like the drum machine, or rhythm track (as a discrete production entity) worked harder. Now everything is a rhythm, every single sound functions rhythmically. The breathless manipulation of the vocal sample on Roc’s “I don’t like the look of it” being the perfect example. This plays some part in the pleasing hollowing-out and weightlessness of the sound. There is no “over-laying” of rhythm that characterised earlier forms of dance music like Hip-Hop.

Even though it’s more merited than ever I’m not going to start riffing (too hard) on the Shanty House thing. Or even dwell too long on how at one time Jungle’s velocity performed the same function in the UK in what former Radio DJ Andy Kershaw referred to as “pre-Avocado” days, an epoch we could conclude with the ascendancy of New Labour in May 2007. Reason being these musics (even if, sadly, they’re probably not going to get enough of mine) deserve our undivided attention for their blind embrace of the future, when it seems that we are being yet more impossibly en-mired in regurgitations of the past.

L.A.S.M.
T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E.
R.A.W.
D.M.C.
F.A.Y.B.A.N.
B.O.N.E.
R.B.G.
T.R.O.Y.
B.B.E.
U.N.I.T.Y.
N.W.A.
B.W.P.
A.L.L.A.H.
K.O.S.
G.O.D.
B.I.G.
B.M.W.
B.I.B.L.E.
B.D.P.
C.N.N.
E.P.M.D.
L.O.N.S.
L.P.
I.M.P.
P.E.
U.G.K.
M.J.G.
T.I.
N.E.R.D.
B.O.B.
B.Y.S.
Rebel I.N.S.
K.I.M.
K.R.S.O.N.E.
H.E.R.
Goodie M.O.B.
D.A.I.S.Y. Age
R.O.C.
D.I.T.C.
W.U.T.A.N.G.

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