1) DJ RUPTURE -LOW INCOME TOMMOROWLAND MIX
Bit late on this, but better than any 2006 releases I've heard so far (which isn't many)
2) MY NEW JOB
More dosh, nice spacious West End office (no more striplit cattle-class banks of desks flooded with unopened mail and stained with 4am deadline-surfers' kebab grease and drool), hot girls who look so out of my league it'd be like Stenhousemuir taking on Real Madrid - but mostly friendly with it. And my mate's my boss! 2 hour lunchbreaks and stuff
3) PRE-CARNIVAL BUILD-UP
Yeah, blah blah, too many people, dangerous, all commercial these days, yadda yadda - I'm right up for it though, as always
4) DJ RAP - "INTELLIGENCE"
Retro pleaure number 1 : I'd forgotten just how fucking stunning this album is - experimental, exciting and pushing jungle's boundaries without sacrificing bass power or the ragga connection (unlike "Timeless", which I also dug up recently, and got bored of within 20 minutes). Funny remembering the old days when she used to wear a baseball cap and CK undies under her bomber jacket, as opposed to the dress / high heels type poses she strikes these days. Needs some sort of critical reappraisal but sadly (probably) won't get one. Metalheadz' output is just anaemic froth compared to this.
5) THE WOODBINE
Best pub on Blackstock Road by a mile
6) LOCOMOTIVE LEIPZIG
My new adopted German football team (St Pauli are way too commercial)
7) ALDEN TYRELL - TIMES LIKE THESE CD
8) END OF THE HEATWAVE
Memo for all you cunts who've spent the last 3 weeks in shorts and sandals - we're geographically closer to the North Pole than Bangkok - something is seriously wrong here! You've been sticking 2 fingers up at concerns about global warming while thousands of Asian, African and South American villages go without water, you smug complacent showoff pricks! Hope the temperature drops to 0 degrees and we get snow between now and next April. (except for Carnival weekend, obviously)
9) LIVER, BACON, MASH, GRAVY
Retro pleasure number 2 : Haven't had this in years, it's lush
10 BLACK WIDOW
Retro pleasure no. 3: lethal 1980s catapult, back on sale in a dodgy shop near Soho! One of these and a carton of ball bearings, and you can make the 'happy slappers' look like a bunch of French mime artists. Seriously dangerous and irresponsible, but you should see what these do to car windscreens (except don't, cos it's illegal and stupid)