Comrades, fellow travelers and committed members of the party, I present to you:

The aftereffects of a sustained indoctrination of my breakcore roots
with four-on-the-floor and 125-140 beats. Infiltrators of my
brokenbeat, amen-pure mental state included: Donna Summer, Com.a,
Passions, DJ Family, David Last, Curses!, Starkey, Bird Peterson, Dj
Deeon, Switch and the 2step/UK Garage pirate radio broadcasts that
reached me in a weakened state as I returned from squat parties in
1999.

Yes, I confess to you all, I was sucked kicking and screaming back
into house music. The inevitability of history (guilty late nights in
1994 at the Paradise gay bar basement in Boston, hopping to Cajmere),
and my continuing admiration and uncontrolled body manipulation by the
aforementioned characters sent me in that direction: falling backwards
from the po-faced dubstep and the skrewface/drooling breakcore,
wiggling up from the 2step sounds.. here it is in all its glory. A
party manifesto.

It wasn't easy. The melodic charms so much more prevalent in this
style, the square beats that encourage smooth tweaking rather than the
rough cutting I favor, all of these were obstacles. My tone-arms
weakened by 12 years of hard use in the interest of the Party,
occasionally sent Serato wonky and resistant. But I soldiered on! The
last hurdle: my preference for swung time/triplets mixed with backbeat
2step - a shuddery-juddery boogie that can't be made too clean.
Hopefully you all will agree.

Onward the party!

MIX LINK: http://www.mashit.com/2008/05/27/ripley-to-the-party-members/