The centre of The Culture – South LDN?
With three of the UK’s hottest artists The Xx, Hot Chip and the mercurial Dupstep genius Burial (alias William Bevan) all hailing from Putney and from the same “bog standard” Comp (Elliott School), perhaps South LDN is the centre of The Culture?
Dubstep to my mind fulffils Matt’s test of “culture being produced that has genuine menace, that takes old stuff and makes new stuff which is truly threatening to our settled ways of seeing things?“. Dubstep has a cinematic quality, like the soundtrack to a solitary walk along the brooding streets of south London at 3am in the rain while being followed by a stranger. “5:5″, the fifth anniversary compilation from the genre’s leading label, Hyperdub, perfectly captures that spirit. The 32 tracks include the fabulous “Distant Lights” from the music’s true master Burial.
Three seminal remixes:
Bloc Party- Where is Home (Burial remix)
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The Xx – VCR (Matthew Dear remix)
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Hot Chip – Over And Over (Maurice Fulton Remix)
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My redoubtable assistant, Ed, a grimecore fanatic, cannot stand Burial. He says the tunes are “rank” , and are for people with enormous headphones who want to hear how well produced it is. He is 16, and uses words like “hench”.
Will hahaha thks for that- That put me back in my box,-i’m probably a typical ‘Burial’ fan a white, middle class, middle aged muso. In fact i’m so sad I had to google “hench”
Simon,
LOL. It had to happen sometime.
Face it kiddo, you’ve become an anachronism!
What’s worse, there’s now no longer any drive-time
Terry Wogan to help you through it….
There is always Classic FM and the shipping forecast Simon. Nowadays Chiropractors don`t charge too much to cut your toenails!
Hench is a lemon flavoured alco pop, I claim my prize.
David I’ll miss good old Terry W and Paul didn’t ‘Blur’ do a track based on the shipping forecast? And if i ever start listening to Classic FM, it’s time for the one way EasyJet flight to Switzerland to put me out of my misery.
As for “hench” Well according to the Urban dictionary
Another word to describe someone as big, strong or muscular.
As in
“look at that bodyguard, he’s so fuckin hench”
“that car is hench. you could fit Pavarotti in there”
you push someone out of a queue to get to the front and they do shit about it.
“man got henched! shame!”
Elliott?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?
As a former Bevin boy l can say that i’m not impressed.