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Florian Hecker talked a bit about his book before his set! That was a good festival though, the only time I've really enjoyed ATP actually because despite all the nerdery it felt like a rave and there were DJs all night in the main spaces. What about Coil? They were relatively low key at that...

This was big. Yasunao Tone was off the hook as well, if that was the same year. Parmegiani was in the middle at the mixing desk wasn't he? Goodiepal is a loon! There's a video of him demonstarting all that stuff on some TV show and the presenters are just enchanted and baffled. Mouse On Mars...

Listening to the radio a bit last weekend, not sure what station, I did feel that it was clear that UK funky is indeed a part of the same hardcore lineage. What does it mean? I don't know, there's a certain spirit there in the music? Hardcore will never die, it just mutates.

That's the feller. It seems he was trying to assist in the offloading of a quantity of 'white girls' to a gentleman who turned out to be affiliated with the feds. Something like that.

In Italy and probably other places in Europe you need photo ID to buy a SIM card and it gets registered. Actually something the UK is currently less paranoid about.

Yeah true, obviously there are levels. That rjdj thing is quite interesting, especially the scenes that modify audio from the environment. Not much of these ideas are that new though are they, just more accessible. Kraftwerk handing out the pocket calculator to the front row, Laurie...

One good thing about laptop sets is that you can put a stop to them with the simple application of a pint of beer. Water works too but beer is symbolically more potent.

Pop stars need dedication, you got to be in character all the time.

You mean Iration don't always walk around in camo boilersuits? *illusion shattered* ... Doing properly live / improvised electronic music has historically meant taking out quite a bit of kit for most people which becomes quite annoying, involves breaking down your rig and then putting it back...

Yadda, yadda. But apparently Tibetan remote-viewing monks be saying the same thing now. Remote viewing Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial powers saving the World from destroying itself in 2012 http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-26-04.asp

I like Icke but I wonder if he's at all familiar with the various gnostic traditions? He actually makes more sense these days and talks about lizards very little AFAICT, but the lizards thing always struck me as a reasonable metaphor for the way that power broking 'professions' attract and...

Or we've been programmed to 'prepare' the planet for them and one day they'll return in their droves. That was a short story I wrote years ago. I like Icke but I wonder if he's at all familiar with the various gnostic traditions? He actually makes more sense these days and talks about lizards...

Ricky Tomlinson. I remember Jonny Whatsisface from breakfast TV did time for selling Es I think?

I wonder if they got the idea from Mick 'Pumpkinhead' Hucknall.

The energy issue? Estimated at 100 billion cubic meters of proven reserves, these discoveries potentially offer enough gas to meet Israel's goal of supplying 25% of its energy needs for more than 20 years - even without further imports [3]. The discovery has also raised realistic expectations...

This seems to be the default CO$ thread. Yes it's sad about the kid. People are naturally always ready to stick the boot in but it's hard to say what the actual circumstances were.

Is it worth picking up Battlefield Earth DVD for 75p for a laugh?

Well - Angry 4-Yr.-Old Shot Babysitter For Stepping On His Foot But that's OT, and of course they'd like you to think that this is all simply in retaliation to provocation from Hamas. Brian Eno's 2c on Counterpunch by the way.

Peter Kim who does the Create Digital Music blog has been evangelising for all this stuff - touch screens, DIY controllers, circuit bending, open source software etc., for some time now and I'm sure it will gain in popularity but even on the comments on his blog there has been a lot of antipathy...

Yeah I was considering getting a DS just to run that. It's quite nice. You get two MS-10 type synths, sequencer, effects and a drum machine using sounds you can synthesise. And you can sync up several DSs wirelessly. I think the iPhone / iPod Touch platform might have more potential in the long...