yay, bassline house at the top (almost, give it another week)of the UK pop charts

a piece by hattie collins in the guardian on the scene

here's a much earlier piece (“is 2004 really going to be the year of bassline house?”) from which it's easily gleanable that the genre honestly weren't up to much
when it started...

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ardkore archivalism: Celler Dweller, an old skool rave blog with ace MP3s ranging from the obviously canonical to the ruddy recondite (2 Boasters, A Digestive & A Jammy Dodger's 'Large Southend Donut (1600cc Remix)'). Nicely illustrated too, plus the occasional trainspotter-pleasing factoid about where the samples come from and so forth.

(His blogpal Dilated Choonz seems to have fairly regular doses of cheesyrave amidst the Moodymann and Pavel Kostiuk mp3s)