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Dunno, it's a mood thing I guess. Eclecticism in music is obviously a very appealing idea, but not when it degenerates into just randomly throwing things together and thinking you're clever --- a feeling I got with things like the Chicken Lips mix on K!7, for example (OK, maybe because of things...

You're not dreaming: Sonic Youth does/did this, I think. I wonder if they flogged it at the merch stand that same night, too. I seem to remember that, for a long time, the record for releasing a (vinyl) recording of a concert performance was 24 hours after the gig (Toots and the Maytals Live...

I remember a review in an old issue of the Rolling Stone Album Guide where the author went a step further by asserting that "not liking the Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun." Not quite, but close, IMHO.

Tim Blake's Blake's New Jerusalem (Egg/Barclay, 1978)

Fennesz? Alright, just so I'm not misunderstood: Kinks (Village Green..., Live at Kelvin Hall come to mind) have done great things and are undeservedly (but without fail) ranked behind the abominable Rolling Stones. Nothing wrong with enjoying their stuff (once every so often). What I loathe...

Excellent! Great, great post, Jonas. I've had similar experiences with sober funky do morro first-timers, people going absolutely fucking apeshit to More Fire Crew (only in my case it was "Back Then" and a dj set in the 2003 European Capital of Culture, Graz/Austria) and playing KRS-One's "Sound...

You certainly mean The Wire, not Wired. One little letter, one huge difference! On the rawk tip... Most things after 1972/3 are pretty dire, I find, and even by then the really good stuff (Black Sabbath, Stooges, Little Feat, etc.) was thin on the ground. I'm with Stelfox on Carcass (you...

Great news, Jonas. I'm really looking forward to that! Big :D . Works every time!

I have Nanoloop. For what it is, it IS pretty nifty. A simple step sequencer/synthesizer with a small memory bank. Vienna's Hot Gameboy Music Club (www.gameboymusicclub.org) has been doing this for a couple of years now in the shape of a club night where there's an informal introduction to the...

Soof, Thanks for the reply. I just block-quoted the information on the website hosting the petition, but the whole proposal is of course a bit more complex than that. Can I ask you to read through this text which I think will clear up any doubts you may have? As for the UK case, well, things...

Please read, sign and spread the word: From www.stopbolkestein.org "Stop Bolkestein ! NO to a socially retrograde Europe NO to an educationally regressive Europe At the instigation of the former European Commissioner Frits Bolkenstein (a Dutch liberal), a draft directive (European law)...

Cool, I happened to get an email about that the other day. Some Dutch folks that have a small studio in Nairobi and are releasing the music, right? Must get it. I was looking for Plantashun Boyz and X Plastaz things recently and ran across Madunia, another Dutch site that also produces...

If you don't already know it, Mick Fish's Industrial Evolution might be what you're looking for.

Damn right.

Most definitely Beefheart. The only thing I respect about Zappa, really, is his stance on censorship (then again, that's the only thing I respect about the likes of Blackie Lawless and W.A.S.P., too. Or Marilyn Manson for that matter.) "Either you get it or you don't." --FZ Sorry Frank, I don't.

I'll have to get that comp somewhere along the line, obviously! In the meantime, those so inclined can... ...see short videos of DJ Marlboro on Brazilian TV here. The video labelled Cidinho e Doca has the two artists performing the funk anthem "C.I.D.A.D.E. D.E. D.E.U.S.". ...catch DJ...

binhex.hqx is a Macintosh format for compressed files, I believe (me = Tech level 0). If you have WinZip or something similar, you'll be spreading some niceness around the flat in no time!

Thanks for the music - you made my morning! The blog looks great, too.

This thread got me thinking about an Epiphany Dave Tompkins wrote for The Wire a while ago, where the cheerleaders do routines to Bass music during breaks at his high school basketball games. A genius piece, I will never forget his immortal assertion that "ass is such a big part of Bass"...

Great stuff - I knew that Stalag cover, but the one below it looks even nicer!