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Wire's OK, the only UK mag I subscribe to although I've no clue about most of the music it covers. This just about sums up my criticism of it, too. The lack of Grime coverage is another major shortcoming, I seem to remember The Wire putting stock in things like Neurofunk but no Grime cover...

Of course the CDs sound better than the original vinyl, and I agree they're a good bargain, but have you heard the Fela box sets LPs? The Stern's LPs are pretty good too.

IMHO, almost any Fela album with Nigeria 70 or Afrika 70 is great to start with, the later stuff being more acquired taste. The albums mentioned above are all recommendable, of course, but my favorites are probably Open and Close, Gentleman and Confusion. I'll never forget the rush I got the...

Good luck with whatever you do and keep us posted!

The CD which has both Water Music and Quatermass is really worth it.

Some fantastic stories, polystyle. Loved Ike Yard on Anti NY, I think it did a lot to put IY back on people's minds. May this continue. You mentioned Shannon - some truly awesome flipsides, the dub to "Give me tonight" is amazing.

I'm with polystyle des on this, who's with sapstra, etc. etc. No comment from me on 'new' Neue Deutsche Welle, though (Wir sind Helden, Rosenstolz, the abominable MIA...) or on most music with German lyrics. Thanks polystyle for mentioning Conny Plank, a right genius in my book, he keeps...

This last thought being, if I may say so, one of the most redeeming things I've heard in a while.

Not an expert on this, but a missa/misa is a Catholic mass performed in a particular style of indigenous music, and the Missa Luba is a mass sung in a Congolese style, with Latin words (this being before the 2nd Vatican Council, which allowed the use of other languages for rites of mass). In...

Hmm, Patrick Cowley thread is gone. OK, then check the Zyx Records website proper, which has more spaced out italo than you'll ever need! No, really. Head for Italo, at left. Not within your specified time frame, but some italo-related stuff I know on Zyx: -Fun Fun "Happy Station" (Zyx scratch...

Lovin' it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My dentist had the Eels on perma-rotation while he did surgery on people's jaws... I cannot think of the types of associations he created in people's minds.

I suppose you could call this spaced out Austro-disco. A good place to start is the I-Robots comp with the foolproof title of Italo Electro Disco Underground Classics, which is worth it for Charlie's "Spacer Woman" alone, some good tracks (mainly instrumental) on that. Check the Patrick Cowley...

Madonna's You can dance (1987) is a seamless mix album of Madonna remixes, and it still holds up quite well I find. The CD has 3 dub versions tagged on at the end which are worth a listen (a lot of 80s dance 12"s have great dub versions on the flipside, often so much better and more interesting...

They're not relevant? And all the military hardware given to Saddam over the years, is that also irrelevant to the 'facts on the ground' now? Maaan. Mr. Craner, I explicitly wrote I didn't believe they would vote to abolish democracy. I hope not, but how can I possibly have an 'argument' if...

Two Lone Swordsmen? ;) Original versions of current favorites work well, too, I find. re.: historical shocks by Jeff Mills. Warm-up dj spends over an hour carefully building up a set just so he can hand the whole thing over at seething point... only for JM to drop a James Brown track. Great...

Easy there, Mr. Craner. Insults, a hallmark of the desperate, never get you respect. This neatly glosses over the fact that Saddam was in power for decades (with tacit Western approval, ---support, even --- not to say weapon supplies) and no one in the world gave a hoot about Ba'athist...

Good point. I find most bootleg stuff quickly loses its appeal in repeat listens. I don't think it's made to last long past that first buzz of "wha?", anyway. I guess the 'how' aspect outweights the 'why' here. Why do I put a Chaka Khan vocal over "Being Boiled" --- well, because I can, that's...

OK, downtempo (by definition!) might not up the BPMs a whole lot but the point is to take you somewhere else, 'journey'-like as you so well put it, so the emphasis is more on, how shall I say, letting sounds morph and flow into one another --- not building up in the classic sense but still going...

Very well put, Sufi, I agree wholeheartedly with this. It's a ridiculous (and, sadly, widespread) notion to consider the 'resistance' as a coordinated movement with common ideology or leadership. Consequently, the removal of figures such as al-Zarkawi will do absolutely nothing to pacify the...