Quote Originally Posted by module
dont get me wrong.. i aint dissing Boss at any juncture.

its the ppl hyping him. this happens every few months. the usual suspects start building someone up as 'the next big thing' when it clearly isnt.

i heard the ep at the w'end. its top f**king work & no mistake, but the hypers are ripping it again.

i dont understand why they do this
Well, I don't know really.
There's not a whole lot of 'good' records coming out, and when I say 'good' I guess you could class heaps of stuff from 5 or so years as being this. Good, solid releases that were coming out regularly... your Shufflemasters, Advents and so on.

No one is hyping this, merely saying that they really like it, and that Boss has a bit of an edge in what he does, which I think is true.

It's like before, not everyone would have been patting Oliver Ho on the back as much when he put out a record, because we expected him to come good all the time, just like Beyer, Mills, Surgeon, Regis etc. Now Ho puts out a record and we can't stop saying enough good things about him... and it's because we're not spoilt anymore, and really value some records more than we might have before in a way?

I think the 'hype' as you put it is merely extra appreciation for a good, solid record that is in shorter supply these days, and for a producer who is on form.