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nah i'll second berghain i think :) incredible soundsystem, awesome decor, great crowd, the best dj's...the only problem is the doorman (the one with a grey ponytail and tattoos all over his face) who, as well as actually looking like the devil, is an utter cunt who takes it upon himself to...

it's on the "chasperli ep" on the bruchstuecke label. limited to 500 copies i think. both beatport and kompakt-mp3.de have it tho. the flip (by styro 2000) is excellent too...

fabric seems to have good minimal dj's playing every other week or so these days (i haven't been since i got back from berlin and don't relish the prospect tbh :slanted: ). the end also has the likes of dinky and some of the kompakt crew occasionaly. otherwise, clever music (run by mark henning)...

"modest" is precisely the correct word here, hence my problem with the album. and there's plenty of music to get excited about this year (scott walker, the junior boys, hot chip, carl craig's remixes, battles, perlon, uusitalo, burial....) - there's really no need to overblow these "relatively...

well having listened to it two and a half times now (after mildly enjoying a couple of tracks on a first listening) i am yet to see this "greatness". so to start with the trance arpeggios: ok, they work well on the opening track, which is undoubtedly a promising beginning. however the riff in...

this is an enormously overrated album. some of the drums are good, yes, but the overall effect is of an ugly hodge-podge of minimal, utterly awful euro vocoder pop, cod-autechre (circa incunabula) and poorly executed attempts at orientalism. sherburne is right to talk abouy the use of fifths in...

oh yes, religion is all about choice. especially monotheisms.

all this is true, but seeing music merely as a struggle between minimalism and ornamentation, sliding back and forth along an axis of complexity, is too simplistic (ha!). for every new genre/style created by this method, you have one where the catalyst is technological invention (e.g. IDM), and...

correction to the above, for those who care: wikipedia reveals that he in fact did not direct /the thick of it/ - only wrote it. he also co-wrote and directed alan partridge.

yes he wrote /brass eye/ and /the day today/ with chirs morris. he also wrote (and directed) /the thick of it/. probably my favourite comedy writer/satirist of the moment (or indeed the last decade). i'd say morris has the edge in terms of direction, but a lot of the linguistic genius of /brass...

sounds fantastic...i'll definitely check him out. the latin swing element is so crucial -- it's what i like most about galoppierende zuversicht's best tracks (e.g. 'erdschuber')....

my apologies tim! i must have mis-remembered your comments. villalobos /does/ have a distinctive sound, of course, but given that this sound is having a clear influence on, at the very least, the rest of the perlon crew (see, as you point out, superlong. 3 + 4) it's maybe most useful to see r.v...

i do like the album...but it's a little too neo-trancey for my taste. having said that, 'in white rooms' is killer - and very neo-trancey! the remixes are good too. but PERLON....now that i really do like! crucial article by man like sherburne in groove (auf deutsch, naturlich)...

the tejada /is/ good, tho the b side is a lot weaker i feel. also slightly underwhelmed by loco dice's 'seeing through shadows' - he certainly hasn't recaptured the sexy greatness of 'jacuzzi games'.... i am absolutely /loving/ the new robag w & wighnomy bros ep tho. 'moppal kiff' is...

interesting...i saw him last month at melt festival in germany headlining on the second day and he way exceeded my expectations (my expectations being a set comprising of whale noises/microphone dropped in a blender or similar). he played a totally committed, tecnically flawless and surprising...

i heard exactly the same thing from a german dj (who wasn't famous at all) - he complained that no one really goes for it in berlin unless it's villalobos or eullberg or someone....that being said, my experience of the berlin club scene (and mostly i'm talking the minimal club scene) is that...

yeah i would tend to agree with this position rather than mms'....although a rapid-fire, rough around the edges style (like kode 9's) or a so-eclectic-it's-beyond-smooth-mixing style (like kieran hebden when he plays at the end) can be effective too. i've always enjoyed the 9 live...especially...

yes, /JC/ is fantastic. obviously as a display of rhetoric (the two famous famous speeches, which are supposed to collectively contain every rhetorical device ever, or something) it's compelling; as a personal study of a weak leader out of his depth it's humanising (favourite scene in this...

interesting - i take your point re: greater diveristy of mozart over bach. as to whether shax is universally admired...i would say yes, with the caveat that there have been a very few (unsuccesful) attempts to fundamentally criticise The Master. (sorry, the names of the critics in question...

spot on...they absolutely killed at melt! festival in germany...