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That Madonna rap is irredeemably awful and completely inexcusable in this day and age, but the Blondie one has never bothered me too much. I reckon it still works somehow despite its obvious shortcomings. Weren't a lot rhymes simplistic and lacking in flow back in the early days anyway? 'The...

Never really gave too much attention to beatboxing (although I do love me some Rahzel), but I thought the guy in this Music Thing entry was doing some interesting stuff w/ Live: http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/09/endless-joy-of-loops.html

Really? I thought they'd stopped allowing that...I'll have to try it again so. I barely use the account anymore, but it still gets the occasional email from people I've not been in contact with in a while. (That and about 50 penis enlargement / teen sluts / ch34p pi11z spam messages a day.)

Cheers for the offer, I reckon he's a vinyl only guy though. The hunt is half the fun anyway :) Then there's the flipside of hearing a tune you've checked out before but didn't really rate at the time in a totally new light because of the mix or the context...and suddenly getting it for the...

My favorite record-tracking-down story concerns a half-remembered track I heard Laurent Garnier play at Final Frontier (at Club UK on Buckhold Road) back in 1995. It was the last tune of a truly amazing night (one of those 10 hour sets Garnier used to do) and as soon as I heard it kick in...

Ruins definitely used a specific made up language. Could never be sure (cause I don't speak much Japanese), but I often thought that Gerogerigegege did the same. (Although - for that matter - I could never tell if Harry Pussy's lyrics were in English even at the noisiest point in my noisy music...

There are - I think - two Burial Mix compilation CDs that cover most of output from the 10" releases...one CD of just the dubs and one 'with the artists'. I'd probably go for the artists version first, as many of the vocals are too good to miss out on. Personal favorites are probably the vocal...

I love Gmail. I'd always previously preferred accessing my email via software clients like Entourage or Outlook and was pretty pissed off when Hotmail started to charge for POP access forcing me to use the slow, cludgy web interface. Since I started using Gmail I have come to prefer reading my...

Ha! Best DJ name.

(I hate it that my dad has been proven so right about my regretting not having paid attention in music lessons)

Boogie / boogie-woogie are (technically speaking) typified by a repetitive walking bassline using a blues chord progression and a shuffle beat. I'm trying to think of examples, but every time I do the song comes into my head is that one by the 5, 6, 7, 8s that they play in Kill Bill (which...

I don't feel like disco ever really ended....it's mainstream popularity waned and it spent five or six years underground turning itself into house music. Maybe the Stars on 45 phenom could be seen as a harbinger of dance music entering a period of reinvention? Has experimental art /...

This link should still work: http://www.lilo.net/~martin/skreammixaug05.mp3

I'd almost say the opposite is true. If you've been listening to (mostly) dance music for the last 10 or 15 years, you may even need to change the things you look for in electronic music to get grime. The production values and layered sonics of techno, the euphoria and urgency of movement of...

Middle class kids in trying to sound working class shocker. Hasn't this always been the case with teenage boys from comfortable backgrounds wanting to seem tough? The only really interesting aspect of this is that the kids being imitated here - for the most part - are themselves imitating their...

I did a cheesy 'Halloween Techno Party' mix many many years ago for, well, a Halloween techno party. Can't remember the tracklist in full, but it definitely had the following... Winx - Don't Laugh (kind of the obvious opener I suppose) Dave Clarke - The Storm (catching that Thriller vibe) DBX -...

Plasticman and Vex'd fucking killed it in NYC tonight...both were excellent, but I think Vex'd in particular hit the spot with the NYC crowd. Really feeling like Dubstep is going to be making some major waves here over the next year (Grime just doesn't seem to do it for a lot of the people that...

Quick Google stats: 50% of results 1 - 6 of 6 for "mud hut in Sri Lanka" are about MIA.

The term 'mud hut' (as in 'from a mud hut in Sri Lanka to a council estate in London') occurs repeatedly in assorted web and magazine articles feting MIA as the greatest thing since peppered mangoes. It's part of her shtick, rendered doubly ridiculous by the number of times it has obviously been...

I just learned today (thanks to a Guardian Article) that Karlheinz Stockhausen maintains he comes from Sirius (something that I exect others here were already aware of). Perhaps more commonly known - certainly more frequently mentioned - are Sun Ra's claims to have come from Saturn. Anyone...