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There are lot's of public sector jobs that are an easy ride, but teaching isn't one of them.

Puntang was floating round in the mid 90s, I always loved it. Likewise that Hot Lizard mix he did from the same era which I think got re-released recently. Beautiful noisy hihats and minor key synths, I still love that stuff. Havent liked anything I've heard in the last few years although a lot...

Universities are inherantly conservative institutions, and a lot of what goes on in them is about teaching young people how to behave in a middle class way. Students are just about the most homogenous group in society in terms of dress, activities and political and cultural views. 'Real' lads...

Blade Runner at the IMAX with a live soundtrack caught my eye. Only Meltdown thing I've ever been to is Terry Riley (part of the Robert Wyatt Meltdown in 2001 I think) - that was blinding.

Good stuff martin. Techno really was bling, but you are putting important messages in your songs ;)

Early 70s country is pretty cosmic, Emmylou Harris and all that. Psychedelic just by nature of being ridiculously well produced.

FWIW, i like Ken, he's the only politician I've ever voted for, but he's been in power too long. His stupid feud with the Evening Standard does my head in. He might as well be pissed off with the clouds for raining on him.

Disagree, I think the tories are thinking too short term. Boris is the Tory's dubya candidate - an antidote to a charasmatic, iconoclastic politician who can win on those terms, but no-one's given any thought as to how good he will actually be in the job. Difference is that once the republicans...

I generally think the moderators act with a very light touch on this board, and the posters are generally mature enough to let them take that stance. I've never seen any really vicious flame wars on dissensus which makes a change from most other forums. The board has been a bit too intellectual...

Arsenal are going ahhht at Anfield me thinks. Arsenal have got a massive weakness in attacking at pace which Liverpool exploited. I don't think I've seen Arsenal score on the break since Henry left.

The double lead vocal thing that Marvin Gaye does in 'What's Going On' was an accident: he'd cut two vocals and couldn't decide which one he preferred, so he asked the engineer to give him both vocals, mixed hard left and hard right respectively, over a mono backing track... so Marv could flip...

WOOFAH MAN IN... SHOCKER!!! :D

This really is genius. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/nightmare-playgrounds.html

No, I realise that in hindsight it was my mistake, but at the time I wasn't close enough to the scene to tell the difference. I still think the name is a bit clever-clever. Some of the music is probably very good though. I've got that Reza mix that Hint upped on download now. Is Recloose...

Bugz are ace to be fair, but I just classed them as 2-step. Maybe because broken beat was for me a pejorative term, anything good within it got metally filed as something else. It is a crap genre name though. Break beat has a clear etymology, from the bits in funk records where everyone but...

I saw Phil Asher play a broken beat set once that was literally undanceable. No one could work it out, they just looked at one another then wandered off.

Still 'dance music for grown ups' though innit?

I got classique #2 b/w roar on 12" before i'd heard anything about them. Both wicked tracks. Don't know how representative of the album they are. Journos cream themselves over LCD Soundsystem though don't they so the hype was kind of a given cos of the DFA link. Can't blame the label for...

I've never come across him before, he's an excellent writer (stylistically speaking). Very enjoyable to read. He's got a piece in today's guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/22/creditcrunch.marketturmoil

Understandable though. The republicans must be a bit squeamish about laying into an ordained minister given their christian base. What are they going to do, come over as the reasonable voice of secularism? I don't think so. Which isn't to say that Huckabee isn't someone of considerable...