Recent content by Culla

Tomorrow night sees the first screening of The McClintock Factor, a documentary about the life and times of Jeremy McClintock, ex-tabloid editor, Balkans war reporter and now leader of his own political movement, the Right Path Party. Originally developed as a character on WhoreCull, this...

Monkey Business 118,000 first-week sales of yesterday; Be Here Now-type industry mania (this time more justified); what's interesting is that although the industry obviously loves to push white-boy northern rock people are going for the arctics on such a big scale...

That extropian flyer it's intentionally 'ravey', owen. it's a detail from a Sri Lankan batik. It's not the greatest piece of design ever, I am not a designer, but i had to think quick as our designer for the first one claimed he did not have enough time. i like the "tuned in, turned on" nature...

hip-hop: the decadent years soz, long post, on hip-hop, not grime.... KPunk is mostly right on hip-hop. “Rap” as an industry is so big that even a huge underground of barely competent rhymers and under-achieving producers can be supported. It’s been a long time since hip-hop has been...

Chavs, clothes and class Round the way of my youth (Surrey/Hampshire borders) if you were “chavving” something you were stealing it. The definition of a pikey was a gypsy who had moved into a house (which ironically, given the snobbery, would have been many of our families a few generations...

Aesthetic brutalisation What I took from Morley’s comment was as much visual as to do with beats and lyrics – the whole spectacle reduced to big pimpin/in da club/honeyz on my arm, the black-american community exercising their right to have a good time. Or rather pop music directors serving up...

fasters Droid's comment on Only Buggin at faster pitch is true - it sounds kickin at least 6-8bpm further up and I did myself a special edit (laboriously looped from sampler-mixer onto md and then on to cd) that is waiting for the right dancefloor to tear up. The second half of the Buggin...

Some comps that stand out in my own boxes: Favourite electros: Crucial Electro (Hashim, Captain Rock, Man Parrish) Electro 5 (Aleem, Egyptian Lover, Mantronix, Dr Jekyll) Reactivate 1: Belgian hardcore with pavlovian riffs, discussed before on this site... Grooverider’s Prototype Chronicles 1 –...