blissblog on the "Zone of Fruitless Intensification" re drum 'n bass: "Now it'd be intriguing to work out what the significant axis on which the Zone of Fruitless Intensification will manifest itself, looking at some current musics. With Grime, one possibility is clunkiness. At the moment the music exploits the aesthetic possibilities of clunky-but-in-a-good way -- the clunk-crunk-funk nexus (the fact that stiff and lurching is actually more funky, or more rhythmically arresting/compelling, than fluid, nimble "funky" playing). But I can already imagine that good-clunk turning to bad-clunk, getting both caned into the ground and exaggerated to the point of non-enjoyability. Same with the bombastic/doomladen post-Swizz/Ludacris fanfare-riff, although perhaps that's just a subset of 'clunk'.

I'm curious if Screwed as an Aesthetic has its ZFI -- and whether that would be the music getting slower and slower until it's just this voidal subdrone (I should get Erase the World's Baal to write this bit for me), a nauseously stretched out brink-of-standstill. "