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Can anyone recommend me some? I don't necessarily mean book-length stories centred on music (e.g. HIgh Fidelity), but good fiction that involves some amount of music in an interesting way. For example, there was Ralph's Ellison's use of Louis Armstrong and turntables in the opening of...

I'm moving again so once more I'm faced with the question of whether to keep or dispose of my large (and heavy) collection of cassettes. It's mostly hip hop, spanning the mid-80s to early-90s. I'm still attached to the music but it's been years since I've had the tape deck plugged in and...

Riddim.ca presents... The first EVER Ottawa performance by a UK dubstep artist... SHACKLETON !!!! (Skull Disco / Mordant Music) Founder of the infamous Skull Disco label and parties / Releases on Mordant Music and Rough Trade / Recently remixed by minimal techno don Ricardo Villalobos...

I know I could go on a dedicated DV forum to ask this but then I'd have to deal with video nerds on their own turf and levels of detail that are beyond me at the moment. Maybe some local nerds can start me in the right direction? I want to get a DV camcorder and I don't know much about them...

On The National tonight, rising sea levels and the UK. So far, London floodgates, and Haysborough's disappearing coastline. Repeats every hour on Newsworld for those in Canada.

http://www.tumblr.com/ Anyone using this? It's interesting - super simple and clean blogging. The same people built Senduit which is the same ideal but applied to the usually messy job of sending large files. It also seems to begin with the recognition that most people end up neglecting their...

The kaiboshing of Barefiles and dismissal of Deapoh. A storm's a brewin' over Ammunition's 'business' practices... http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=16838 Who'd have imagined a pirate radio station getting legalistic about the recording of their broadcasts?

Has anyone worked much with optical character recognition (OCR) software? I'm tempted to scan some of the books that I go to most often, especially the ones without indexes, with the idea of converting the images to text using OCR so that they can be turned into searchable PDF files. But how...

Sometimes the 'gossip, slander, lies' threads become black holes for topics that could be great threads in themselves. I'm going to start pulling more of these out... Over here stelfox has asked whether the minimal techno influence will make dubstep 'less street.' Tactics asks whether it has...

I have a few questions and I can't find a lot of info about him online. Is he well known either on a pop scale or within a particular scene? What's his audience (folk, 'world,' something else)? Or was it this collaboration with Burial and Switch brought him some degree of prominence? Does he...

Bruno's comment that to plants "we must seem a blur" reminded me of a short German animation called 'Das Rad' ('The Wheel') which I saw a a few years ago on the CBC's shortlived experimental film/video prorgam Zed TV. Like most things, it's now on YouTube. It depicts a brief episode - the...

kind of a dull query but i think i need a better record bag and i'd like some suggestions/cautions on brands and models. my current one is really only made to look like a dj bag, not function as one. it's flimsy and keeps falling forward. i want one that holds around 50 12"s and that will fit...

Who else is having this problem? It must be widespread by this point with everyone and every device going wireless. In my old apartment I'd get bumped off my connection any time the neighbour's cordless phone or microwave was in use. But where we are now it's turned into a major problem. I...

This was already noted by viktorvaughn in "Grime gossip..." but I thought it merited its own thread. More at: http://www.rwdmag.com//forum/viewtopic.php?t=129472&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Sad but understandable. I've often thought how exhausting it must be to be Wiley. I wonder how...

I just saw a poster downtown for a DJ set by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 'taking drugs to make music to take drugs to' 3 fame. Is this an isolated event or part of a tour.? Has anyone seen him do one of these? I'm really intrigued. I'm guessing he could span everything from the Velvets and Terry...

Riddim.ca Acquires Hyperdub.com 2step Archive OTTAWA, ON, January 3, 2007 - Riddim.ca (TSX: RDM) announces a strategic content-sharing alliance with South London-based Hyperdub.com (FTSE: HDB). The 1.2 Mb acquisition makes Riddim.ca the official unhome of the original Hyperdub.com 2step Garage...

I've been thinking about online names for a while, since the name-switch amnesty on here a few months ago. Neither my old one or the new one seem to fit. The most natural seems to be the one that other people have given me. K-punk has a recent post on the relationship of the pseudonym to...

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I remember a year or two back (around when the Remarc comps came out) Woebot mentioned that reissues of Black Secret Technology and 28 Gun Badboy were forthcoming. I think Matt was supposed to be doing the sleeve notes. Gerald's site has had a pre-order option for ages now but I haven't seen...