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I'm thinking of doing something like this over the summer, but making it a bit more balearic (ie. musically undefined, so we get the freedom to play more of what folks want). But basically 80s post-disco and modern stuff drawing on that era. Maybe putting on a few live acts too. Just getting a...

Can believe no one's had HITLER MADE ME DO IT from the front of the Sun on friday. Casual europhobia, barrowboy humour and brutal condensation of a multifaceted story combine, for once, into a moment of true genius. I almost wet myself laughing in Sainsburys.

Yeah I've got back into buying records a bit recently. I pretty much gave up from 2002-2007 - prior to that I was living in Croydon which had a lot of boss record shops, and I was bang into it. I suppoe maybe I just got bored and fancied a break. But recently I've been asked to DJ at a few more...

I get regular emails from Juno but I find it incredibly tedious going through them. Anything worth buying I usually hear about from forums, tracklists of mixes that I've downloaded, myspace, or through talking to people in (gulp) the real world. A good thing about the net is that records...

Anyone know of a car hire company that will let me pick up a car in Croatia and drop it off again in Italy?

I got this record recently... bit of a thumping techno take on the wonk aesthetic.

A lush oasis of pounding kickdrum mentalism in Sheffield's arid electro-house desert... Tinnitus - The Second Birthday Party Ethio Cubano, Arundel Gate, Sheffield 10 while 6 Downstairs – Techno, Hardcore Techno, Schranz, Hardtek, Very Hard Techno The DJ Producer (Rebelscum/The Third...

Heavy is the pelvis that wears the crown.

Yeah I enjoyed it. The bit where he's talking about tape edits is class - a mile of tape for a 15 minute track! F&%£ that...

Yeah, I was thinking about UR. Also Kenny Larkin's 'War Of The Worlds' is a good example of cosmic Detroit techno. But I think they're exceptions to the rule. Part of the humanity of Detroit techno is that it's being made on pretty amateurish equipment, so there's that connnection to individual...

Spiritual, yes, definitely. Not really cosmic though. Cosmic implies something that's on an inhuman scale, what makes detroit techno stand out is the humanity of it (what all that journo guff about 'machine soul' was driving at, probably). I suppose Mills can get quite cosmic in his duller...

Been massively feeling early Hall & Oates on this tip recently. 'Had I Known You Better Then' is seriously one of the greatest songs ever written. Thing about this kind of stuff is that the albums are all over the place - you get absolutely georgeous songs next to excretable rubbish. The Hall &...

I was living down by West Bar but I moved to Crookesmoor a few months ago. Bare student action.

stop dssin me dunno wot I dun rong here u wankr :)

Whale explodes over a motorscooter in Taiwan:

Fair comment, I've never been that into trance. Thinking about what I have heard, you're probably right. There is that strain of really robotic psy-trance isnt there? I suppose 'dystopic' is a term that's open to quite a wide interpretation. I think 'cosmic' might be the key term in describing...

I've been dabbling in a little urban exploration of late. Sheffield, my new-ish home, certainly has a lot to offer in terms of knackered industrial buildings, as well as a huge brutalist housing estate that's currently completey empty. Anyway, here's your starter for ten: Berlin's Tempelhof...

Cheers :). I'm not setting myself up to be some kind of expert on techno, but I was buying a lot of records, going out dancing a lot, and generally keeping close tabs on the scene during this period. I've also ignored techno-as-listening-music for the sake of clarity, although the better...

Loads of melancholic disco. Machine 'There But For The Grace Of God Go I', Dee D Jackson 'Automatic Lover', Odyssey 'Native New Yorker'. Melancholy is almost the default disco emotion. It is a thin line between melancholy and depressing though, I agree.

A very brief primer on trends in early-to-mid 90s techno then (and not definitive, so jump in and correct me!): - lo-fi spacy disco-influenced art techno coming out of Detroit, building on what Derrick May was doing in the mid 80s. Carl Craig is maybe the best exponent of this - grab the 69...