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I used 'mp3' as lazy shorthand for 'digital audio format' but one benefit of a 'DJ version' of tunes is that you could make WAV or better standard. The potential for horrible mutilations of otherwise great music would obviously be vast, it just seems like one fairly obvious way forward whereby...

It is difficult to conceive of how to move things forward without going down the creative cul de sac of more edits and effects I guess. It just seems strange to me that young DJs would want to use something like Serato that replicates a format they never used in the first place. Maybe Im just...

It does seem surprising how little the art of DJing seems to have moved forward given the technology, it doesnt really appear (to me) like anyone is trying. People are still getting excited by a DJ like Oneman being able to beatmatch quickly. I havent seen a single young DJ at a club or on...

I never actually experienced this form of journalism in the music magazines I grew up reading. People talk about the glory days of Rolling Stone and NME but as a teenager in the late 90s, that era was already long gone. The print mags widely available covering the genres I listened to were like...

Middling manager for a middling team I guess. The way I see it, this England manager has two major challenges; circumventing all the raging egos within the squad so as to develop a team mentality and overcoming the pessimism and cynicism that seems to have defined the national team since the...

Critical Beats seemed to me to be full of vague intellectual wandering; as if the panelists were considering the issues for the very first time. I was fully expecting to find Reynolds really annoying but thought he came across well, Joe Muggs has that kind of laugh-talking delivery that nearly...

You'd think almost all fans would agree, Im not a Man U fan but if I were I'd want them to get knocked out tomorrow. Thursday nights are too close to the weekend to be flying out to places like the Ukraine to play teams like FC Metalist Kharkiv. You could see the effect on Stoke and Man U do not...

Its a great column, I wondered myself who it could be and after googling found there's a whole site dedicated to unmasking him: http://www.whoisthesecretfootballer.co.uk/ As sad as that site is, I noticed that someone on there mentioned that the TSF twitter follows Kevin Davies' wife, which as...

This doesnt take anything away from it for me. Players are obviously overpaid in relation to (most of) the rest of society but I dont see club loyalty as a factor. Its not like the fans are particularly loyal to the players if they see a dip in form - look at the difference in attitude to...

We definitely dont have the stats culture in the UK that they seem to have in the US with NFL and MLB. It'll be interesting to see if that changes over time, Im not sure how much of it is a result of culture as opposed to the simplicity of the game though. Does anyone know of managers trying to...

Can you really divorce the crackle and general enya-crying-by-a-bonfire atmospherics from the music though? Im not sure to be honest. It does sometimes feel like the musical equivalent of a hipstamatic setting but in reality its done so artfully it never quite drops to that level. Having said...

He'll surely go to Real at the end of the season, even if Arsenal finish 4th and win the FA Cup. I wouldnt be surprised if Oxlade Chamberlain moves on as well, especially if he makes a splash at the Euros. Ramsay and Walcott are both failing to mature into world class players, its getting...

Stole or sampled depending on your viewpoint I guess. I'd prefer if anyone could sample anything without worrying about copyright laws. I accept thats a radical view on the issue though and that it must be extremely annoying if you make no money from music and someone like Timbaland samples or...

While Timbaland didnt invent dubstep, he did pioneer a kind of drum syncopation and emphasis on the snare which dubstep employs. When you listen to his earlier stuff it is very reminiscent of Dubstep rhythmically: Not to open that can of worms again but I do think with the Timbaland example...

If Mick Jagger had been sauntering around on stage like a 21 y old no one would describe him as desperate. I cant stand Madonna but a lot of the criticism of her regarding this seems to be basically sexist. I've no idea what MIA was doing there though - performing a choreographed dance routine...

I find it pretty bizarre how aggrieved people seem to be on behalf of this Reark guy, its definitely wrong of Zomby but its hardly like this kind of thing is rare in music.

Changing the tempo is enough to be considered original though isnt it? A lot of genres/sub-genres start with DJs/Producers taking an established sound and putting it at a different BPM (Moombahton would be a rubbish but recent example). If Damu doesnt sound like Joy Orbison then Hyph Mngo...

I think the PR element of Daniels entering could've been handled by the GOP but with the family issues as well I guess it is pretty much impossible. As far as Florida goes; Gingrich wont be able to get away with the far-right rhetoric but he will likely shape-shift to suit the arena - focusing...

I agree the logistics of it make it extremely unlikely but if the calls for Daniels to run were to grow to a fever pitch after the SOTU response and the GOP were keen to make it happen logistically and organizationally, would you still say he'd be mad to run? I'm working on the assumption that...

It would seem a fairly astute move to me for Daniels or Christie to enter now. Romney is flailing and Gingrich surely wouldnt survive the hammering he'd get once the DNC got going on him. The spin for the new candidate would be all about 'coming to the rescue' and the excuses would be easy to...