Recent content by ewmy

That was me. It's great, and I can say with full confidence because I still listen to it regularly as one of the 5 tapes in my car. I'm just sorry I never finished my review - it seriously needs a scanner to do justice to all the hand-made extras (is it too late now?). I did complete a...

Norman Jay MBE. Always plays the right tune, and I've never heard a bad set of his. And as literally everybody loves him (I think it's now illegal not to) the atmosphere is always fantastic.

Revive! There's a compilation called "Berlin Underground 1979-1983" that's just been made available on the WFMU blog. It's good.

Cheers

Some proper pop indie bands who am good IMO: The Features The Good Shoes The Bishops Vincent Vincent & The Villains Punish The Atom Neils Children Battle The Holloways Louie Air Traffic The Delaners I'm pretty sure most of them have been featured/hyped in the NME too.

Props to whoever made my tape, "Emotronix" (I'm 99% sure, O Leader). It looks like it was a lot of work, but it was must have been worth it because I have to keep finding reasons to go out in the car so I can play it again...

Got mine today - all the way from Australia, just in time for a Friday night journey north.

Just found this class site of late 80s megamixes: http://www.mastermix.org/ The Westwood stuff is truly hilarious.

What do you mean by "rock music"? It's hard to tell because you only mention two bands in passing in 1500 words and GoF/PiL are hardly "contemporary rock music"! If you're talking about the commercial, millions-selling major-label bands, I'm sure people were saying the same things 10, 20 and 30...

Sorry if this is old news, but this Pandora thing is pretty good: http://www.pandora.com It's similar to last.fm but it's even easier to use. And it comes up with some pretty interesting suggestions, though I had to really knock it around to stop it playing me a run of crap. It doesn't get...

No order: Miss Kittin Paul Woolford Norman Jay Mr Scruff Richie Hawtin Jon Carter Krafty Kuts Switch / Solid Groove Ivan Smagghe / Blackstrobe Oliver Lang

Just to clear up any possible confusion, I do think that the 1981 chart beats this week about 25-10. Which makes music exactly 2.5x worse now than 1981 - a still more realistic and reasoned argument than O Superman vs Il Divo...

O Superman vs Il Divo?! How specious a comparison is that? Personally, I reckon music now is much better now than 1981 because of Shake A Leg vs The Birdie Song (which did better than O Superman in October 1981) :D

I see a distinction between "influenced by dance music" and "danceable". The first is endlessly debatable - what is dance music? what is influence? - whereas I was defending the current crop of indie bands to mms on the basis of the second. I'd much rather dance to "Apply Some Pressure" or...

I disagree. I mean, I'm too young to remember 20 years ago but the indie around now is MUCH better than Britpop. Mainstream rock music was so lumpen in the mid-late 90s that even cheesy handbag house seemed preferable to dance to in comparison. At gigs then I seem to remember everyone would...