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I'm about to go hear Wiley play in Tokyo (!!!) And am sitting listening to "Treading on thin ice" for the first time in ages. Occurs to me that this record is much fresher, and bearing up much better these days than "Showtime" which sounds a bit tired and thin. Wiley's perspective is richer...

THing is starbucks isn't even a particularly bad company but righteous hairshirters particularly hate it because it trespasses on their middle class semiotics.

he's everywhere. I heard he played triangle on the bloc party album too.

Shooting star was great, but I've got to pick "Airhead" or "Toytown" as the genre-defining moments. Airhead!

Fashion versus function I hear what everybody says about the word "funky" and to a certain extent, self-consciously funky music. It's at a low ebb right now fashion-wise, and all the associations are deeply embarrassing. BUT MASSIVE CAVEAT Music that is actually funky, that has a bit of...

Hurrah! That's definitely it... How about a list of happy hardcore tearjerkers? 1. Justin Time - "Sweet in pocket" 2. Adam Harris - "Heavens above" 3. Q Tex - "Power of love" :eek: :eek: :eek: :D

No, was definitely later on.

Well this is all very well, but the naysayers (Dave, Matt) are basically establishment figures awash with cultural capital and sitting right on the geographical nexus (London-NYC) of the things they are interested in. From that privileged position maybe the internet is a waste of time. But the...

mad milngavie posse! Well I'm utterly unashamed to have been a massive fan of this stuff at the time. Tuned into the Tom Wilson show every week, went to Rez, did that skippy double-time dance. Got stacks of stuff on Evolution Gold and dubs of dubs of DJ Vibes tapes. I liken HH to Northern...

That ant story reminds me of this great, but only tangentially relevant fact about a parasite that likes to live in cats, but is more commonly found in rats. It fucks with the rats brain, taking away its instinctive fear of cats to ensure the rat is eaten by a cat, thus passing the parasite on...

Understatement of the fuckin decade. Bet he got raped in jail.

<b>Why is Kompakt so rated?</b> Oh, I dunno... Quarks - "I walk" Superpitcher - "Heroin" Michael Mayer - "Love is stronger than pride", "Unter Null" Jurgen Paape - "So weit wie nocht nie" Closer Musik - "Maria", "One two three, no gravity" Justus Kohncke - "2 after 909", "Timecode" Ferenc -...

The Swayzak "Snowblind" EP has an awesome remix of a track called "Another Day" done by Richard Davis - it's like primetime Superpitcher, complete with plaintive vocal. There's also a Mathew Jonson remix! Definitely find this because all three tracks on it are decent, though the Davis one is...

I dunno, this is presumably something that involved a lot of active commitment and action on her part, can't really lump that in with buying a woolly hat and some king size rizla... (I mean I don't know the girl, but I'm assuming she must be pretty good at capoeira to be teaching it, right?)

Finchley was Margaret Thatcher's constituency. It's petit-bourgeois and dull, but crime free and has a reasonable amount of greenery. Large tracts of it are miles away from public transport. I reckon Camberwell or Clapham are your best bets. Fast overland trains to Kings Cross, which is then...

Completely agree about 'normal' people's bizarro record collections - there's probably a really strong case to be made that the more into music you get, the more boring and stereotyped your record collection becomes as it either fits into a neat genre specialist slot, or broadens out to cover...

'Decent' means victorian fireplace, own garden, aga stove - just the essentials, you know?

Jesus to use the word "myopic" in a post which implies that Blair is relatively bad as far as politicians go is pretty amusing. I mean compared to Chirac, Bush, Clinton, Major or Thatcher the guy is a fucking saint (not to even mention Mandelson, Blunkett, Howard or Letwin). Obviously he's an...

When me and my mate moved to London from Edinburgh I went to East London and he went to South London. I lived in Limehouse, Bethnal Green and Hackney; he lived in Brixton, Herne Hill and Camberwell. He definitely made the better choice - from South London you hop on an overland train and...

same same but different Yeah but see, this "pop mindset" is to me a totally artificial construct. Nobody here is talking about the real pop consumer, the person who consumes through the radio and tv and buys a couple of cds a year. In fact we're not even talking about the actual 'scene'...