On the Wronk?

The whole Aquacrunk thing is really polarising the views of music journalists particularly those of early rave evangelist and Guardian writer Simon Reynolds who definitely seems to fall into the anti camp right now, lazily fencing artists such as Zomby, Rustie and HudMo into the 'Wonky' enclosure, an obvious reference to an ill conceived theory that to enjoy it one must first put their 'Wronk' hat on, read the article here This is especially damning on Mr Reynolds as this is a scene which he has no experience of whatsoever, and for someone so hugely influential to come out with this bollocks is damaging to a scene which is one of the more interesting things coming out of the UK right now.
Zomby was none too pleased and came back with a fairly swift riposte:

No one does Ketamine right ? ..i thought it died in the late 80’s after that shitty Madonna tour ended, maybe you know more…..
though i have seen a crusty white dude with dreadlocks rolling around in his own puke ‘going off on K’ in Brixton not long back ..dunno how inspirational a event for a artist that is however.
None of us make ‘wonky’…the notion is similar in descriptive terms to calling Heavy Metal ‘Loud’ or Jungle ‘Fast’ ,adjectives cannot function as noun’s..
its fairly unimaginative and ignorant by this point, at first the term was used loosely as it was a playful in-joke for producers working in disharmonic structure or notation, to make the link to Ketamine is wild.
Next time you write a piece in a national newspaper try have some accuracy or even some intellectual property on the creativity or artisty of the music/artists rather than lowest common denominator music journalism i.e ‘Drugs & a new music’.
Read it through Shutter shades on Hoffman 225’s, its more believable that way.
There was a Paragraph that work’s.
“Listen to Zomby tunes like Spaceman and Aquafresh (off his recent 7-track EP for Hyperdub) and it’s like someone’s taken the monochrome diagram that is dubstep’s rhythmic grid and scrawled woozily all over it with fluorescent marker pens.”

Zomby - Strange Fruit

HudMo - Oops - Oh My

[Rory]