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Well this is it. Everything has a life including musical movements. Rave music is very much of a certain place in time and belongs there. 15 years ago it was new and fresh and sounded like nothing else. Now it sounds like "rave" or whatever; it has changed and grown up (for better or worse)...

I just saw Simon Reynold's post on the Blissblog about this thread and the Klaxons band... First "Josef K meets Baby D": get me a bucket. I had a listen to the stuff on MySpace. Well... off the top of my head... They check the punky/post-punky naivety box ... I dunno... It'll take more...

This is true. I wanted to say as much but I couldn't think of a way to slag of the electronic/dance scene as well for the same sin (being boring, predictable, slavishly following the canon etc) in the same post as snappily off the top of my head. Mind you, more than half of my recent CD...

Heh... Guilty as charged... :)

Yeah I think "rave" is coming back in some form or another. I've noticed that the trendy fashionista crews are starting to drop the electroclash/ post-punk vibe a bit (well, a little) and adopting smiley faces etc on their posters in Sydney, like it's another flavour of costume party. Also I...

A question I've been asking myself lately too... And even though I like a lot of metal (& I'm keen to check out Boris) I don't think the effect is quite the same as the bands you mentioned. Yeah I've got that one. It's called Pure and it's one of my favourite Godflesh albums. I quite like...

Funny you should mention Bobby Konders. I got this CD also compiled by Frankie Bones really cheap locally a month or two ago: Amazon seem to have a few copies cheap if you're the non-DJ type who can live without the vinyl. Top stuff. Although I'm not keen on his "Let there be House" track.

Gee, Martin... You know, I actually thought the exact same thing about the English when I first visited London. And yet... I'm still on this board talking to you. Didn't the English invent/master Capitalism..? And yes, some Greeks are shockingly racist and sexist, but like Edward says, you've...

yeah well the earth is heating up in many ways... re environmental degradation, I think the cause is the same as human degradation everywhere: capitalism, human greed and myopia... going back to that revolution thread - i think this place is crying out for a change. The present system is...

Ah yes, the artistic ego - probably deserves a thread of its own if there hasn't been one already. I fully agree - give them a bit of latitude etc. You don't want to get cut by a passing ego... I'm not sure though if artists' rudeness bears much correlation with how good they actually are...

For me it's quite simple. If I meet someone new I know nothing about them nor them about me - so it's always best to be polite and see what they have to offer... I guess it also comes from being a student and being proved wrong so many times by teachers etc. It's nothing to be ashamed of: it's...

Man, that's dedication! Risotto! Pesto! (Not that I have too much to complain re what my folks fed/feed me). Yeah, I can't imagine doing a lot of drugs should I ever have a family - special occasions I guess - and just for the record (like anyone cares) my weed use drops dramatically when I'm...

I just noticed this thread. Re the weed discussion I thought it was very interesting and stimulating Padraig's posts, baseless hyperbole and all. I think there was a space between the two sides of the argument which was being filled by the posts in an interesting way. It's a pity you didn't...

Hm, goes to show how much I know about this stuff... Maybe it was the only one in Australia? My memory is a bit sketchy to be honest. But I'm pretty certain that there was a general vibe of mild embarrassment among most staff and students that university politics had split the school, which...

When I did my undergraduate BA degree the philosophy department at that university was actually split in two (probably the only one in the world so split) into this very demarcation. According to the various stories I heard from more clued up students the split was purely ideological in the 60s...

Cripes! I was thinking about posting something constructive on this topic but jeez, boys, keep the abuse private. Don't forget this is just a board - don't take it too personal - stick to the issues, not the distractions (eg. vendettas, etc). Padraig, if you really give a stuff about...

Good movie - great director but if that really is the case imho that film makes more sense as a mediation on violence and society.. If you mean that it's because people a getting a buzz from seeing something on TV and buying it - people don't need drugs for that. I've worked in retail for a...

No way! I read it pretty quickly - maybe a slow start but it pulls you in... Volume 2 is great. The ending is also crucial imo. The first "modern novel" if you can believe people like JG Ballard or Borges. It changed the way I read books. I read the Oxford Classic translation which did the...

OK I'll drop the patronising innocence if you drop the hyperbole. Capitalism and the corporate structure work towards monopolies. The most lucrative ones are those for goods everyone wants: food, clothing, transport etc. Cottage industries aren't that interesting to Capital. I also believe that...

Care to unpack it for the rest of us mortals? No offence Padraig but the following is particularly opaque: I share Mark's position on drugydum as "psychedelic fascism" [Kubrick], as fundamental to abstract pomo Kapitalism's condition of workable possibility I'm guessing that's short-hand for...