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Thought this might be a suitable forum in which to discuss a new book by Matthew Fuller Media Ecologies, particularly the opening chapter on London pirate radio. Kicking off with a block quote from Reynolds, the section moves through a patchwork of medial materiality, offering a "flat list of...

Feeling Ok? It's funny, because I only just got around to finally listening to the Analord series a few days before Simon's post, and I was also struck by how much I enjoyed it. Great stuff, wonderfully crafted - makes me realize what a fantastic producer Richard James can be. I suppose the...

In a Concert Hall! There was a time I would've considered going to see the band, particularly after Ágætis Byrjun was released. I think that the album that followed felt like they were delivering the heartstrings a bit too consciously. They also began tapping the populist vein more explicitly...

:) Haha, wasn't that a joke mashup from ILM? I think it represents Blissbloggaz top two tunes from 2002, it ain't serious. Just a mock-tribute.

Sexy! Yeah, totally. I love that after a paragraph of describing 'sex-machines', 'monads', 'recycled techniques' and the 'contingent and generative effects', etc. etc. - it finally gets to the point, "we love dynamic sampling." But, you know, Achim's always been like that... isn't there some...

Hm - Poptism also seems supremely individualized though; not just about pleasure, but about MY pleasure, above and beyond any notion of 'our' or 'their' pleasure. This is something fairly consistent throughout Tim's commentary; the producer literally disappears under a Deleuzian concept of 'art'...

Oh - in it's favour, that first one starts with a cool quote from 'Redemption Song' though, "Old pirates, yes, they rob I; sold I to the merchant ships." Songs of freedom!

The Most Photographed and Least Remembered City in the World... Great interview - but what's up with all the random fragments at the tail end of each reply - Kurt Heasley non-sequiter. Future Pigeon?? Strange. Some of his comments about LA remind me of that Intro dialogue from Gregg Araki's...

? What's with cutting the record all the time though? Are those rewinds or something?

! Fuck - that's awesome!

'Profiting from Creativity? The music industry in Stockholm, Sweden and Kingston, Jamaica', Environment and Planning A, 2002, vol. 34, p. 1833 - 1854. This article isn't very good - it comes from an economic/creative industry and policy angle - totally disregarding the cultural dimension of...

I've been reading some material examining dancehall production in Kingston, with the goal of providing some insight into the post-P2P, digital music industry - that is, examining a system built up around riddims, the blending and creative appropriation of others' music, rather than the...

Hm That's an interesting comment about Remarc and mushrooms - I'm not sure if I'm disturbed by music like silverdollar, I just don't really feel like listening to anything in particular when I'm on them. It's not an urge that I feel, like on E or smoking pot, or even getting drunk (so much...

Looks great! Cheers!

Get Ur Bootleg On Hm. Get Ur Freak On - just one record though, innit? So many authenticity issues - despite all the controversy, I'm still siding with Reynolds so far, particularly on the completely valid critique of terrorist imagery, promotion of T.T. and her presumed (and kind of...

The Slowness I couldn't get it down - supposed to take 5 hours?? (And I ain't even on dial-up). I would love to get a copy of this, is it available anywhere else?

Pirate Radio It's enough to say, listening to grime 'live' - over mixes I've downloaded from Rinse or P2P - is a radically different experience than mixtapes like Aim High or RTR. Hardcore Continuum lineage becomes far more apparent.

! Be sure to get back to us here with a review of sorts - being stuck in Melb, I'm totally eager to hear how it all went!

Eh? Wot's DC++? Is this some kind of alternative P2P or something?

Book's cool. I'm off-topic, but this is a vile quotation. Yeah, man - totally. I was kind of taken a back by it too - especially since this was published by Harvard University Press no less! But I think the point is about how to think ideologically about economic exploitation and 'new...