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Once you get past the humblebrag intro, this is pretty sharp: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ I specifically like the fact that it's not yet another "ChatGPT is just overhyped predictive text" piece, he's realistic about the capabilities...

Yeah, I mean half joking there obviously but I do kind of struggle to see the point of this sort of time signature trickery. You're still basically going to wrongfoot the crowd at some point, it's just that you're doing it with some tricky overlapping rhythms instead of a gracefully handled...

Yeah, I was thinking why not just pull up the tune at the old tempo, set off a load of explosion / dub siren / machine gun sound effects and MC chat and then just go straight into a tune with a strong intro at the new tempo. But maybe I don't appreciate the craft of DJing on the same level as...

English people think food in America is terrible. American people think food in England is terrible.

Old story, but apparently in the scene with the lighter fluid they replaced the coloured water that they used in rehearsals with vinegar for the final shot without telling Grant, so his reaction to drinking it is actually genuine...

ISTR that Rutger Hauer re-wrote the tears in the rain speech the night before rather than ad-libbing it?

More man cave data. We took the three-year-old to the Neepsend Model Railway Society's annual exhibition today, in a community centre to the North of Sheffield. It was fab, but there's probably a dissertation to be written on the choices of subject for railway modelling - unexpectedly (to me)...

I kind of want to try to make a line in the sand here. It feels like a lot of music books that I've read in the last decade or so have followed a pattern of picking a topic, making some broad-brush argument for why it's interesting, and then essentially just picking a bunch of relevant artists...

This is the thing about a lot of exciting moments in dance music, isn't it. The thing that makes them exciting is the tension between basically incompatible elements, which also makes them inherently unstable. You think you're being clever by rejecting the bad one and then when you finally get...

Is 5/8 allowed? It's arguably a different feel sometimes:

I've just got back from a weekend in Elenydd, the Green Desert of Wales. It's an incredibly sparsely populated area. From the top of Drygarn Fawr you can see Cardigan Bay to the West and Hay Bluff to the East, so you can essentially see the whole width of the country.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/

I guess that making more sense live than on record is part of the same thing, right?

I think there's a bit of a thing of people in very local scenes being kind of able to commit harder to whatever they do because people are kind-of prepared for it, right? I mean, there's a lot of mythology around super confrontational gigs with people doing extremely weird stuff in front of...

It's lowkey hilarous watching all this Tesla renumeration bullshit going on. Like, the any halfway intelligent shareholders presumably want to say that Musk can fuck off because he's basically a media-friendly[1] figurehead who in most other respects does very little that anyone with a pulse...

It's annoying because you used to be able to go to a standard curry house and everyone could order pretty much what they liked and you could keep it simple by splitting the bill at the end and it'd be fine because it was cheap anyway. These days if you're just getting a curry, rice and a drink...

It's not exactly digging deep, but Liquid Swords, Player's Anthem and G Thang seem hard to argue with for me. Basically just distillations of a given style. G Thang: Player's Anthem:

Most of the way through Monolithic Undertow: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781474615259 Dunno, it's enjoyable but a) once it gets past the introduction it turns into a bit of an annotated discography - "then they recorded this album which was a bit slower and heavier, then the...

Beware of Greeks wearing shifts.

Also Goldie chucking that guy down a flight of stairs for doing an Inner City Life bootleg. Actually, there seems to be a theme here...