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Ketamine, Wonky, and Dubstep
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Edited Mar 06, 2009, 16:52
Re: Ketamine, Wonky, and Dubstep
Mar 05, 2009, 21:58
I enjoyed that article - even if Simon Reynolds is the king of made-up genres (he first coined the term post-rock, didn't he?). Although he does acknowledge that ketamine has been lurking on the fringes of rave for years, I think it's been a tad more prominent than that (and I'm fairly out of touch with "It drugs" myself these days so if I can spot that fact...). I don't really buy into the concept of "wonky", either - it sounds as though he had a deadline approaching and had to invent a new term for dubstep that he could then expand the piece by trying to define.

Although I haven't seen too much of it around in licensed clubs, whenever I used to go to unofficial raves (ie squat parties) from around 1995 onwards, ketamine was always in abundance (although I tried it and didn't think it was anything special). A lot of drum & bass heads seemed to be fond of it back then - perhaps it's having a minor renaissance now, like acid did in the early 90s.
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