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Oh man I love (or should that be loved?) broken beat! Perfect summer music. You need to check out: Anything by Seiji. He's the man. There's an untitled cd compliation you can find on soulseek which is just full of the most amazing productions. Check out a tune he did called Loose Lips with...

Is that at Pressure at The Arches? Saw Sven Vath there last summer, and I have to say The Arches is one of my favourite UK venues. Good mixed crowd down at Pressure as well. Ketamine seems the drug de jour round these parts. There's even a monthly rave called Ketaloco, which I think Paul...

Yeah I like some of the older Alex Smoke stuff I've got like, Chica Wappa. Infact Chica Wappa would certainly fall into the category of anthemic minimal. Wicked tune. Not so keen on the more recent Smoke releases I've heard though. Any recommendations? As a label Soma are generally pretty spot...

Oh, and I have to mention Alex Under. His 2005 album Dispositivos De Mi Granja is one of the best dance albums in my collection. Really spacious minimal techno sound...

Love the instrumental of Have To Get Back. On the download of the Vocal as I type. Actually caught Wink down at Godskitchen last summer and was suprised just how good his set was. Very much in the vein of Have To Get Back rather than Higher State. Another big surprise was that Eric Prydz, who...

Just by chance I've lived in two cities with good minimal scenes over the last couple of years. Fukuoka in the south of Japan I thought would be one of the most unlikely places to have minimal DJs passing through, but thanks to the work of a couple of enthusiastic promoters we had M.A.N.D.Y...

Saw Booka Shade live over the bank holiday and my recommend would have to be "In White Rooms" by Booka Shade themselves - although that might fall into 2005, I can't remember. It's worth your bandwidth though. I'll have to second Simon's props for Falling Up by Carl Craig and also suggest you...

If we're being all pedantic, then i'll suggest a few comiCs as well: Foxtrot (or perhaps some people might classify this as a "funny"??) is pretty good if you're a bit of a geek. Kind of like Calvin and Hobbs but starring a boy addicted to computer games. Needless to say I can relate to that...

Despite the fact I said in my previous post that JME was the "perfect cross over artist" I perhaps actually rather agree wth Tactics here. While imho JME is worthy of chart success, I think it's more likely that he'll attain a kind of cult status with kids, clubbers/ravers and students. That...

If I'm gonna put a Grime track on a mixtape for someone, it pretty much has to be JME. Most other Grime bars are just self-referencial/gun-chat = major turn off for a lot of people. JME's tunes are, for the most part, pretty much accessible to anyone. Couple that with some killer beats and...

I have a pretty limited knowledge of this art form, but I'd recommend American Splendour by Harvey Pekar. Harvey basically just writes a comic book diary, and gets different people to draw it. Really interesting form of autobiography. I'd second the Daniel Clowes recommedations, particularly...

any one heard the new groove armada single? caught it on the radio at first and was totally knocked for six realising it was by them... its a complete rip off of switch and the like but suprisingly enjoyable.

really liked this film. loved the contrast between the natural liquid sun and the digital quality it assumed when reflected in the pixel-esque filters on the front of the ship. sooo beautiful! reminded me of nintendo's use of the same juxtaposition in twilight princess. music was good...

If it makes any difference I read this on Chantelle Fiddy's: Now I don't know much about FWD or this Dr Venom, but does that make it a little less of a mockery and more real for you Logan? Personally I'm not into this Hadouken thing. I know where they're from probably better than most and I...

I actually quite like it when there are people playing music through their phone on the bus, on the rare occasions i forget my minidisc. Then again, I would rather listen to most music than sit in silence on public transport. The "tishtishtish" headphone leak noise is much more annoying than...

i'm using the Berhinger 2000 and find it very much adequate. i've never used anything other digital dj controls though so i don't have anything to compare it against. certainly no complaints here though!

It did fall apart a little right at the end, but I was laughing until the overly long ending sequence. The end was also edited so badly you could hardly tell what was going on half the time. The thing that impressed me most were the high production values. It's a film that could stand next to...

Good album innit? Managed to catch the live show in Fukuoka when I was out there too. I vaguely remember posting this before, but it's worth having a look at the stuff he writes about the Contact project on his blog.

It might be a week late, but I have to say this event went ooooffffff. Nice one Fix Up crew, looking forward to another one in the near future. I grabbed a little interview with Plastician after his set which you can hear over at my blog along with a short write up of the night.

High praise indeed - cheers for the recommendations. I'll search them out this weekend n let you know how i find them.