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    The realisation that you don't really like house music much any more...

    anyway by no means all music that comes under the banner of 'house' has a kick on every beat of the bar. House DJs that play a constant stream of 4 to the floor are mostly dull as ditchwater, agreed, except for someone like knuckles who can bewitch you with beats like a metronome simply cos of...
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    The realisation that you don't really like house music much any more...

    definitely, also some of the stuff on pigna & nature records out of italy Thing is house & techno are huge catch all terms now whereas grime & dubstep are relatively tight subgenres concentrating on a particular sound - people might disagree that grime is a subgenre because of its futurism but...
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    Classic Mix Compilations

    This seems to be a strange thing to say in a thread about mix compilations. Mixes are almost exclusively a phenomenon of dance music and that is music which is largely made for and consumed within an environment where people are gathered together and sharing the experience of listening to and...
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    one off bits of electronic pop joy

    some that come to mind: the who - eminence front dr. john - jetset cat stevens - was a dog a doughnut
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    your favourite labels

    how about all those hip hop masters of ceremonies?! the juke box lives on as well I think, aren't creative's mega mp3 players called juke boxes?
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    London's Idiot Cyclists

    there should be a special green light for cyclists that comes on before the main light goes green to give us a chance to get ahead of the main flow of traffic & therefore more visible - in practice this is what a lot of london cyclists who red light jump are doing. The green space for cyclists...
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    podcasting

    brainwashed.com do one, I've only heard one but it was an interesting selection
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    records that sound better at the wrong speed

    one of the cosmic mixtapes (forgive me for forgetting which one, there's tons) has bronski's smalltown boy pitched right down and it sounds amazing Baldelli played every record he bought at 33 first and if it sounded good he would never play it at 45 pulp fiction at 33 as played by afrika...
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    When people say Cold Rush...

    this was the effect of MDA as opposed to MDMA, similar effect physically but without the love - I think lots of pills in the nineties were MDA because it is easier to make than MDMA, snowballs were definitely that
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    funkiness

    yeah funky is a pretty debased term but so are many words that date back so long - I mean I pretty much cringe every time someone tells me that something rocks
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    Downfall

    the sound design is amazing as well in the end credits two books are cited one of which is the story written by the secretary which probably explains the emphasis on that particular character - when the real person is shown at the end she is quite a good looking woman even now - perhaps it's...
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    Soul Jazz Records

    Acid - Can You Jack (Chicago Acid And Experimental House 1985-1995) (2xCD) Released: May 9, 2005 Tracks This Is Acid - Maurice Do You Want To Percolate - Sweat Boyz Go Wild Rhythm Tracks - Virgo Beyond The Clouds - Mr. Fingers Acid Crash - Tyree Phuture Jacks - Phuture Dum Dum - Fresh...
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    Matthew Jonson

    presumed this was an april fool mpc, but it seems the organisers of sonar are in on it: http://www.sonar.es/2005/eng/conciertos.cfm - both fergie & jonson on the bill, I presume that they won't be appearing at the same time??!!
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    Paris 1969

    I think it was composed in 1970 & released a year later but Vangelis' "Fais que ton reve soit plus long que la nui" (make your dream last longer than the night) was recorded in Paris, is based on the '68 events and uses field recordings from the riots & radio footage - His first band Aphrodite's...
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    Cheap Eats in London

    tre viet up mare street near madigans & the turkish next door to it pretty much any okcabasi (alright I admit I can't spell it or pronounce it) up kingsland road / stoke newington high st diwali on drummond street (shabbier than ravi but food slightly has the edge imo) if £3 is the limit of your...
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    Walkman chic

    I hear you - those FGTH cassette singles were the first music I ever purchased I think, not having yet got a turntable by that point (apart from the fisher price of course) the artwork was lavish for tape
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    italian house/irma records

    I like Italian dance music a lot - Italo disco, Italian house, some Italian techno & sort of neo-italo electro house stuff like nature records. I like the way it has always evolved somewhat seperately from the mainstream music created by the US or the UK but has influenced key developments in...
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    Is anyone in Grime/NUKG/Garage actually making any money?

    that's it, almost every shop sells stuff with uncleared samples but HMV always seems to stock dodgy re-pressings and the like which other big shops don't - I remember Brian of MVE being ultra careful about not selling bootlegs, even in a secondhand shop - guess those flat rate fines would have...
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    Is anyone in Grime/NUKG/Garage actually making any money?

    HMV can carry bootlegs & other copyright-infringing material with impunity because they are so large an organisation with so much power in the record industry and financial resource at their disposal that no one is able to sue them for it
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    Colonia Dignidad

    most of the descriptions of Schaefer say he was a medic or nurse in the german army rather than a mengeles-style 'evil nazi experimenter' and it seems that he was run out of germany in the early sixties because of child-abuse charges rather than any war crimes - this conspiracy theory looks...
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