Recent content by jasonh

An excerpt from a new Khanate track can be found here: http://www.plotkinworks.com/media/ The track is called "Wings From Spine" and is rather good on initial impressions. Unfortunately, from what James says on his website the next Khanate release will be the last.

I try not to rationalise why I like a band or piece of music too much - subjecting it to too much intellectualising about why we may like something robs it of immediacy (esp. with rock music). Maybe Simon just likes jumping up and down in his living room to the sound of "Fake Tales Of San...

Where to start... James Blunt, Jack Johnson, that gimp with the hat. Yeah, you'll have a bad day if I get hold of you. Those awful trance records that sample shit '70s records. There is a reason everyone wanted to forget Leo Sayer existed in the first place - don't rehabilitate him PLEASE...

Techno-Animal - I still believe that "Re-Entry" is one of the best albums released in the last 15 years or so. It came from a period of music (along with Disco Inferno, Moonshake, Bark Psychosis, and a load of great hip hop like early Wu-Tang, Redman, Show & AG etc) that still ranks as my...

Personally, I love a bit of reggae - King Tubby, "Scratch" Perry, Marley in particular. I wouldn't call myself a major follower though. Starting to listen to some dancehall lately too. Still like my metal though!

Not a very good idea to publish the cartoons, but I would defend the right to do so to the hilt. I wonder if Islam is a religion that has a major problem with representations of God? Christianity isn't (witness any church window). Maybe this is part of the problem... A lot of the protestors...

Given that you aren't fussed on the metal side of Scorn, the best place to start will probably be Ellipsis, which is the remix album they did with the likes of Laswell, Autechre and co. My favourite of theirs is Evanescence, which manages to meld the dubby stuff with their earlier metal...

On the recently read list... Steve Aylett - Lint (very funny mock biography of a Philip K. Dick-esque sci-fi author) Jon Coutenay Grimwood - Pashazade/Effendi/Felaheen (great sci-fi/thrillers set in an alternative now where WW1 didn't end as it did - if you like Gibson/Richard Morgan et al give...

Great post overall, some of which I do agree with (after some thought on the matter). However, just because the three women mentioned are obviously a bit thick, doesn't mean he could treat them so obviously badly (I wouldn't). His behaviour towards Rula and Fariah was pretty awful at times as...

We're in the hidden majority who don't vote for anyone as all of the parties (in the the UK at least) are pallid photocopies of '80's Thatcherism.

I do support Galloway's stance on the war, but CBB has managed to be edited in such a way (and he has portrayed himself, let's not forget) as a bullying, misogynistic, egomaniacal twat of the first order. Notwithstanding the fact that I didn't like her much myself, his (along with Pete and...

Just did the test, the results are in... -5.63 -5.38 It only means that no-one except posters on Dissensus would ever vote for me if I was a politician...

I would support a person's right to assisted suicide - you control what you/your body does for a large proportion of your life. If that body is dying slowly, with no hope of restoration and no quality of life, you should be enabled to die with the dignity you deserve. This would need a legal...

Am I the only person who thinks the Stone Roses were/are hideously overrated? No.1 my arse! The fact that MBV were missed off completely, along with PiL and countless other classics, just shows how much the NME has completely lost it.

I think Watchmen is one of those books that will never get filmed. Part of me thinks that is a shame, but another large part of me thinks that someone will only ruin it anyway! As for great films from last year - History Of Violence, Batman Begins, Sin City and Team America.